Brief Life History of Emily
When Emily Whitney was born on 29 January 1885, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Orson Ferguson Whitney, was 29 and her mother, Zina Beal Smoot, was 25. She married Winslow Farr Smith on 7 June 1906, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 12 May 1973, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Emily W Smith in household of Winston F Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
- Emily Whitney birth record
- Emily Whitney, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Whitney in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island, piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’. The name may also derive from Whitney (now Whitney Wood) in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), probably named from Old English hwītan ‘white’ + (ge)hæge ‘enclosure’.
History: John Whitney came from London, England, to Watertown, MA, in 1635, and had numerous prominent descendents.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Dorothy (Dote), Virginia (Ginny), and "Whit" Smith were all close friends and first cousins of my mother, Margaret Whitney Timpson Chamberlain. "Doc" Lund was a family friend to the Smiths, as well as …
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