Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 101

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978

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Issue of Nathaniel and Mary Ann ( Diron) Whitaker:

AMBROSE WHITAKER, b. Dec. 15, 1730; of whom presently;

Lemuel Whitaker, b. March 3, 1732; d. unm .; Lewis Whitaker, b. June 29, 1734; m. Anna -, and had at least three children, viz. : Lydia Whitaker, b. Feb. 19, 1760; d. Oct. 1, 1830; m., Feb. 19, 1784, her first cousin, Nathaniel Whitaker, son of Ambrose, of whom later;

Lemuel Whitaker, settled near Muskingum, O., where he d. at about eighty years of age, leaving several children;

Lewis Whitaker, also removed to Muskingum, O., then to Hennepin, Ill .; one of his sons, John Whitaker, was one of the framers of the first constitution of Ill., 1818.

Issue of Nathaniel and Ruth ( Buck ) Whitaker:

Sarah Whitaker, b. Nov. 9, 1740; d. Oct. 25, 1806; unm .;

Hannah, b. March 3, 1742; m. Ephraim Foster, and had ten children; her youngest dau. m. Rev. Ethan Osborn, pastor of the "Old Stone Church," Cumberland co .;

Daniel Whitaker, b. Feb. 11, 1745; d. unm .;

Ruth Whitaker, b. May 24, 1746; m. Josiah Harris, and had two sons, Enos and John ; m. (second) Davis, and had two children by him.

AMBROSE WHITAKER, eldest son of Nathaniel and Mary Ann ( Dixon) Whit- aker, born on the old homestead, December 15, 1730; lived a time on Jones' Island, later settling in Pittsgrove, Salem county. He married (first), January 16, 1755, Freelove, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail (Preston) Stratton, died May 8, 1765, "aged thirty-two years, two months, ten days." He married (second), De- cember 10, 1766, Ruth, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Harris, born June 10, 1733. died November 4, 1771; (third), October 5. 1772, Rachel, daughter of Recompence Leake, born October 3, 1743, died January 30, 1823, who is buried beside him in the Presbyterian Churchyard, at Daretown. He had in all, thirteen children, twelve of whom lived to mature years and married; five by his first wife, three by the second and five by the third wife. Ten of these survived him. Ambrose Whitaker died November 5. 1796, aged sixty-eight years, ten months, ten days.

Issue of Ambrose and Freelove (Stratton) Whitaker:

Freelove Whitaker, b. Nov. 21, 1756; m. Butler Thompson, and d. before her father, leaving one dau. :

Mary Thompson, m. Thomas Sheppard, and had five children; afterward m. Abra- ham Silver, and later m. William White.

Mary Whitaker, b. Oct. 10, 1758; m., May 7, 1782, Jedediah Ogden, and had five children : Isaac, Jedediah, Neri, Ruth and Daniel;

NATHANIEL WHITAKER, b. Feb. 8, 1760; of whom presently ;

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Abigail Whitaker, b. May 8, 1761; m., Sept. 12, 1786, Jeffry Parvin; d. March 3, 1795. leaving two children;

Catharine Whitaker, b. Oct. 14, 1763; d. Nov. 12, 1796; m., 1782, Joshua Reeves, of Bridgeton, and had seven children.

Issue of Ambrose and Ruth (Harris ) Whitaker:

David Whitaker, b. Oct. 17, 1767; d. July 29, 1807; m. Catharine Du Bois, 1788, and had six children;

Hannah Whitaker, b. March 29, 1769; lived only thirty days;

Lewis Whitaker, b. Oct. 15, 1770; d. Oct. 1, 1828; m. (first), 1797, Mary Du Bois, by whom he had three children; m. a second time and had four children.

Issue of Ambrose and Rachel (Leake ) Whitaker:

Recompense Whitaker, b. April 17, 1774: d. Oct. 23, 1809; m., March 6, 1800, Rachel Moore, and had five children; he was named as one of the executors of his father's will;

Oliver Whitaker, b. Sept. 10, 1775; d. Dec. 11, 1831; m. (first), Feb. 2, 1799, Mary Sum- merell, and moved to Clinton co., O .; his first wife d. leaving five children, and he m. (second), 1807, Elizabeth Kirby, by whom he had six children;

Freelove Whitaker, b. March 29, 1778; d. Jan., 1842; bur. in old churchyard at Dare- town; m., April 23, 1804, David Du Bois, and had seven children;

Isaac Whitaker, b. Jan. II, 1780; d. Feb. 23, 1857; was a schoolmate and chum of Capt. James Lawrence, of the "Chesapeake," of "Don't give up the ship" fame; Capt. Law- rence tried to induce Isaac Whitaker to accept a commission on his ship, but he de- clined; he m., March 10, 1814, Ann Fithian, and had twelve children; Ann, the wife. d. April 23, 1855; both she and her husband are bur. at Deerfield;

Sarah Leake Whitaker, b. Nov. 1, 1781; m. Dr. Robert Hunter Van Meter, and had eight children; she it was who took charge of the old books and power of attorney of her ancestor, Richard Whitaker.

NATHANIEL WHITAKER, third child and eldest son of Ambrose Whitaker, by his first wife, Freelove Stratton, was born February 8, 1760, in the Whitaker Mansion erected by his great-grandfather, Richard Whitaker, and lived on the original homestead all his life, becoming in early manhood owner of the western part of the original plantation on which the mansion stood. He worshipped at the Old Stone Church, during much of the ministry of Rev. Ethan Osborn, the "Old Man Be- loved," occupying the old family pew, No. 16, until 1801, when he rented No. 26. which, as shown by the records of the church, was still rented to his heirs in 1822. He was elected a trustee of the church May 4, 1801, and held that position until his death, January 15, 1804, at the early age of forty-four years.

He married, February 19, 1784, his first consin, Lydia, daughter of Lewis and Anna Whitaker.

Issue of Nathaniel and Lydia (Whitaker ) Whitaker:

JOEL WHITAKER, b. April 14. 1785; d. May 16, 1860; m., June 7, 1809, Ruth Newcomb; of whom presently;

REUEL WHITAKER, b. Dec. 22, 1786; d. Feb. 5, 1858; m., March 28, 1810, Sarah Westcott ; of whom later;

ANNA WHITAKER, b. Oct. 21, 1788; d. May 16, 1862; m., Sept. 22, 1807, Preston Bishop: of whom later;

Lydia Whitaker, b. Oct. 30, 1790; d. Nov. 5, 1791;

NATHANIEL WHITAKER, b. Sept. 23, 1792; d. May 12, 1867; m., March 30, 1814, Hannah Bacon Husted; of whom later;

Lydia Whitaker, b. March 31, 1794; d. May 24, 1794;

LYDIA WHITAKER, b. Sept. 17, 1796; d. March 2, 1863; m., July 19, 1813, James Craig; of whom later;

Abigail Whitaker, b. Sept. 5, 1800; d. Nov. 10, 1800.

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JOEL WHITAKER, eldest child of Nathaniel and Lydia ( Whitaker ) Whitaker, was born April 14, 1785, on the old Whitaker homestead; he was executor of his mother's will ; after his marriage, 1809, he moved to Downe township, Cumberland county, New Jersey, where he resided until May, 1835, when he removed with his wife and family (with the exception of his oldest daughter, who was married in New Jersey, 1833) to Granville, Illinois, where he engaged in farming until his death, May 16, 1860. He married, June 7, 1809, Ruth Newcomb, of Downe town- ship.

Issue of Joel and Ruth Whitaker:

ALANSON WHITAKER, b. March 24, 1810; m. (first) Maria Jane Taggart, (second) Han- nah Baxendale ;

MARY CLARK WHITAKER, b. July 3, 1813; m. Henry Blizzard;

JOEL WHITAKER, b. Oct. 22, 1815; m. Jane (Leech) Noble;

WILLIAM NEWCOMB WHITAKER, b. Ang. 2, 1817; m. (first) Clarissa Bateman, (second) Victoria Jardella ;

RUTH WHITAKER, b. Oct. 2, 1819; m. Samuel Albert Dixon;

DANIEL, WHITAKER, b. Nov. 17, 1822; m. Mary Elodia Bennett;

ETHAN OSBORN WHITAKER, b. March 21, 1825; m. (first) Ellen Kitrige Keyes, (second) Ursula Aurilla Bronnell;

ADALINE CRAIG WHITAKER, b. June 3, 1827; m. Hiram William White.

ALANSON WHITAKER, oldest child of Joel and Ruth, was born March 24, 1810; he owned a farm near Granville, Illinois ; was School Treasurer of Granville town- ship ; he died November 4, 1889. He married, March 28, 1839, Maria Jane Tag- gart, who died May 22, 1845; they had two children, one of whom died in infancy :

Emma Whitaker, b. Jan. 17, 1840; residing in Orleans, Neb .; m., Oct. 2, 1859, Ste- phen Dillno Lane, president of a bank in Orleans, two terms City Treasurer and two terms Mayor ; he d. Nov. 11, 1906; they had five children, two d. unm. :

Helen Maria Lane, b. Aug. 24, 1860; m., March 24, 1882, Albert Kinnie; they re- side in Holbrook, Neb., and have six children: Vira A., Fred, Frank, Ernest H., Edith H., and Dillno Lane Kinnie;

Mary Alice Lane, b. June 8, 1865; graduate in music, at a conservatory in Neb .; m., Sept., 1902, Rev. E. E. Crippen, a Methodist minister of Orleans;

Edna Maude Lane, b. March 27, 1878; m. Fred M. Hull; they reside in Wyalusing. Pa., and have four children : Helen, Alice, Gordon and Harry Hull.

Alanson Whitaker married (second), June 19, 1851, Hannah Baxendale, a na- tive of England ; she died May 12, 1896 ; they had issue :

Mary Ruth Whitaker, b. Sept. 15, 1852; m., Aug., 1883, Lincoln Whitney; they reside in Long Beach, Cal., and have one child living, Foy Verner Whitney, b. May 15, 1884;

Cornelia Whitaker, b. March 2, 1857; she lives on the old homestead at Granville; unm.

MARY CLARK WHITAKER, second child of Joel and Ruth, born July, 1813, died March 30, 1842 ; married, about 1833, Henry, son of Benjamin Blizzard, of Downe, township, Cumberland county, New Jersey. They had three children :

James Blizzard, b., April, 1835; drowned at sea, off Saybrook, Conn., Dec. 6, 1856; unm .; Elizabeth Blizzard, b. 1839; d. Jan. 29, 1876; m. Isaac Jerrell: now residing in Ocean View, N. J .; they had two children :

Everett J. Jerrell, b. Jan. 21, 1870; resides in Cape May, N. J .; m. Elnora T. Ste- vens; they have one child :

Charles Parker Jerrell, b. April, 1898.

Anna Mary Jerrell, b. June 2, 1872; after death of her mother, was adopted by Jacob Auld, of Dividing Creek, N. J., and was known as Mame Auld; m., Aug.

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21, 1894, George Laws, principal of a school at Heislerville, N. J., son of George Laws, soldier in Civil War; they have three children :

Lorana Laws, b. Sept. 29, 1895;

Adelia Laws, b. Dec. 23, 1896; Anna Laws, b. Nov. 24, 1897.

Furman Ladow Blizzard, b. April 20, 1841; after death of his mother, he was adopted by his father's half-brother, David Campbell, and took that surname. He is in busi- ness in Port Elizabeth, N. J. He m. (first) Retta, dau. of Capt. Charles Bowker; no issue; m. (second), April 5, 1866, Emma Ludlam Stanford, of Dennisville, N. J., dau. of Ingate and Julia Ludlam Stanford, and had two children :

Stanford Campbell, d. inf .;

Eva Stanford Campbell, b. Jan. 31, 1871; m., Jan. 14, 1908, William H. Owens; they reside in Port Norris, N. J.

JOEL WHITAKER, third child of Joel and Ruth, was born October 22, 1815; he was a farmer and vocal music teacher ; postmaster of Hennepin, Illinois, and School Treasurer and Commissioner of Highways ; he died October 22, 1901 ; in February, 1854, he married Mrs. Jane (Leech) Noble, daughter of John and Mary Leech ; they had seven children, five of whom died without issue ; those living are :

Harriet Whitaker, b. Nov. 24, 1854; m., May 6, 1895, John Thomas Wilson, native of Birmingham, England; they reside at St. Louis, Mo .; no issue;

Lewis Newcomb Whitaker, b. Sept. 11, 1856; m. (first), Jan. 1, 1891, Josie Cahill, and had two sons, Earl and Stanley; m. (second), in 1903, his first wife's sister, Julia Cahill; they have children, and reside in Laclede, Mo.

WILLIAM NEWCOMB WHITAKER, fourth child of Joel and Ruth, born August 2, 1817, died at Buffalo Gap, South Dakota ; he was a Baptist minister ; married, July 25, 1838, Clarissa, daughter of David F. and Ruth Bateman, of Cedarville, New Jersey ; she died December 6, 1847 ; they had issue :

William Bateman Whitaker, b. June 18, 1839;

Albert Whitaker, b. Oct. 4, 1842; a soldier in Civil War; d. of sickness in the army, Oct. 24, 1861;

Adaline Whitaker, b. May 21, 1845; m., 1864, George Vandorn;

Edward Whitaker, b. Nov. 10, 1847; d. May 18, 1848.

William N. Whitaker married (second) Victoria, daughter of Andrew and Ann P. Jardella ; they had four children, two of whom died in infancy :

Frank Whitaker, b. June 10, 1860;

Victoria Jardella Whitaker, b. May 10, 1862; m. Raybourn.

RUTH WHITAKER, fifth child of Joel and Ruth, born October 2, 1819, died May 17, 1847 ; married, about 1838, Samuel Albert Dixon, and had two children :

Thomas Powell Dixon, b. about 1839; living in Ill .; unm .;

Charles Albert Dixon, b. about 1842; m., about 1873, Mrs. Nancy (Coulter) Snyder; they reside in Newberry, Ore.

DANIEL WHITAKER, sixth child of Joel and Ruth, born November 17, 1822; educated at Academy at Mount Palatine, Illinois, and Madison (now Colgate) University, Hamilton, New York, graduating from the latter institution, 1850; and from Theological Seminary, University of Rochester, New York, 1852; or- dained a Baptist minister, September 5, 1852, and in 1853 went as a missionary to Maulmain, Burma, where he was a most zealous and successful worker, and

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organizer of American Baptist Missionary Union ; died in Burma, August 18, 1857; married in Homer, New York, August 29, 1852, Mary Elodia (born at Cal- cutta, Hindoostan, November 1, 1829, died August 20, 1906), a daughter of Rev. Cephas and Stella Bennett, of the Burmese Mission ; she married (second) Thomas Ranney, and her two surviving daughters took the name of their stepfather ; her three children were:

Cephas Bennett Whitaker, b. in Maulmain, Burma, Nov. 10, 1853; d. in Toungoo, Burma, April 15, 1857;

Mary Stella Whitaker, now known as Mary Whitaker Ranney, b. in Maulmain, Feb. 2, 1855; educated at Cortland Academy, Homer, N. Y .; treasurer of Women's Baptist Missionary Society of the West, 1888-98; now living at London, England ;

Ruth Whitaker Ranney, b. in Toungoo, Burma, Feb. 24, 1857; educated with her sister at Cortland Academy, New York; appointed Baptist Missionary to Burma, 1886, and now engaged in school work at Insein, Burma.

ETHAN OSBORN WHITAKER, seventh child of Joel and Ruth, born March 21. 1825, was ordained a Baptist minister, August, 1852 ; pastor of a church at Pales- tine Grove, Illinois, 1854-56; church in Tremont, Illinois, 1856-58; enlisted in Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment, Iowa Volunteers, August 13, 1862 ; after the capture of Vicksburg, he was sent north in charge of Confederate prisoners, con- tracting smallpox from them; he died on Small-pox Island, below St. Louis, Mis- souri, March 15, 1863; he married, February 5, 1853, Ellen Kitrige Keyes, who died May 15, 1854; they had no children. He married (second), July 5, 1855, Ursula Aurilla, daughter of Clark Wilbur and Elizabeth Bronnell, of New York; she resides at Sacramento, California ; they had four children :

Ethan Wilbur Whitaker, b. May 25, 1856; moved to the southern states, and believed to have d. there of yellow fever;

Frederick Henry Whitaker, b. Feb. 18, 1858; m., July 21, 1901, Anna Marie Jensen, a native of Denmark; they have no children, and reside in Sacramento;

Frances Ellen Whitaker, b. Feb. 20, 1860; d. April 5, 1863;

Ruth Elizabeth Whitaker, b. Feb. 20, 1860; d. Aug. 13, 1899; m., 1886, Albert Chaussee; residing in Pender, Thurston co., Neb .; there are two sons living :

Edwin Bronnell Chaussee, b. May 6, 1889; resides in Jefferson, Union co., S. D .; Herbert Wilbur Chaussee, b. May 2, 1894; resides with his father in Pender.

ADALINE CRAIG WHITAKER, eighth and youngest child of Joel and Ruth, born June 3, 1827 ; married, about 1847, Hiram Willard, son of Hiram Pitts and Mary White; Adaline White died May 4, 1874; H. W. White died in Streator, Illinois, February 26, 1900 ; they had nine children, three of whom died without issue :

Sidney Lewis White, b. Aug. 29, 1848; resides in Blue Hill, Neb .; m., 1873, Josephine Taliaferro; they had six children, two d. s. p .:

Alice Luella White, m. Thornton Foe, 1894; d. 1897; they had two children, Car- mon and Fern;

Hiram Walter White, resides in Blue Hill, Neb .;

Edna Frances White, m. Edward Turner; they reside in Bird City, Kan., and have one child;

Ethel White, resides in Bird City.

Daniel Alby Bennett White, son of Hiram and Adaline, b. July 6, 1853; m. Ellen Smith; he lives in Perry, Mo., with his three younger children, Dias Bradley, Francis Alby Lewis, and Jay Pitts White; his three older children are m .:

Edith Adell White, m. Homer Weldy; they reside in Vandalia, Mo., and have two children, Alma and Virdie Alene;

Henry Willard White, m. Margaret Rigg; reside in Vandalia, and have one dau., Densie Marie;

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Grace Mabel White, m. Richard Cole; they live in Perry, Mo., and have one dau. Frank Willard White, b. Nov. 5, 1858; m. Mrs. Hester (Snyder) Dye; they reside in Mellette, S. D .; no children;

Cora Adaline White, b. Aug. 11, 1865; m. Frank Hamm; they reside in Hennepin, Ill., and have nine children : Waldo Adelbert, Henry Lewis, Willard Franklin, Fannie Aldena, Roland Rensellaer, Katherine Adaline, Bertha Lillian, Mabel Belle, and Verne Howard ;

Etta Bell White, dau. of Hiram and Adaline, b. Sept. 19, 1867; m. ( first) Walter E. Winship; issue, two children, now dead; m. (second) Elbert Tucker Gregg; they re- side in Putnam, Ill., and have three children : Mutie Adaline, Hiram Elbert, and Lee Orry;

Lillian Ruth White, dau. of Hiram and Adaline, b. April 15, 1872; m. David Behr Hamm; they reside in Nemaha, Ia., and have two children: Russell Ruel and Mar- guerite.

REUEL WHITAKER, second son of Nathaniel and Lydia ( Whitaker ) Whitaker, born December 22. 1796, on the old Whitaker homestead ; died in Fairton, Febru- ary 5, 1858; married, March 28, 1810, Sarah, daughter of John Westcott (a Jus- tice of the Peace and a commander of a troop of horse in the War of 1812-14), by his wife, Mary, daughter of Capt. Jeremiah Bennett. Sarah ( Westcott) Whitaker died at Fairton, New Jersey, December 4, 1884, aged ninety-four years, three months, sixteen days ; they had issue :

CLARISSA ANN WHITAKER, h. April 9, 1811: m. (first ) Theophilus E. Harris, (second) Ephraim H. Whiticar;

Abigail Whitaker, b. May 19, 1813; d. July 31, 1875; unm. ;

Lemuel Whitaker, b. April 4, 1815; d. Feb. 10, 1854; unm .; Horace Whitaker, b. April 9, 1817; d. Nov. 16, 1821;

EPHER WHITAKER, b. March 27, 1820; m. Hannah Maria Force;

Lucius Whitaker, b. Sept. 28, 1823; d. July 14, 1869; unm .;

CLEMENT WHITAKER, b. Oct. 28, 1826; m. Harriet Cornelia Cochran;

HARRIET ANN WHITAKER, b. Feb. 14, 1829; m. Johnson P. Clark;

FRANKLIN LAWRENCE WHITAKER, b. Aug. 14, 1831; m. Lydia Leaming Ross;

Isaac Sheppard Whitaker, b. Oct. 10, 1833; was a soldier in the Civil War, serving in Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers; d. in Fairton, at home of his mother, June 28, 1879; unm.

CLARISSA ANN WHITAKER, oldest child of Reuel and Sarah, born April 9, 1811. died in Bridgeton, September 6, 1886; she married (first) Theophilus E. Harris, Sheriff of Cumberland county ; after his death became second wife of Hon. Eph- raim H. Whiticar, several years a Judge of the County Court, and in succession a member of both houses of New Jersey Legislature ; he died one year after serving as Judge, 1879, then eighty-one years of age ; his wife, Clarissa, survived him seven years, removing, after his death, to the home of her aged mother, and caring for her until the latter's death. By her second husband, Judge Whiticar, she had no children ; by her first husband, Theophilus E. Harris, she had two daughters:

Ellen R. Harris, m., Dec. 7, 1871, John Ogden, of Bridgeton ; she d. May 13, 1873, in the twenty-four year of her age; they had one child :

Sidney Harris Ogden, b. May 4. 1873; m., 1907, Katherine May Severn, and have one dau.

Mary E. Harris, second child of Theophilus and Clarissa, graduate of New Jersey State Normal School, was afterward a teacher; d. July 9, 1873, in the twenty-third year of her age.

EPHER WHITAKER, fifth child of Reuel and Sarah, was born March 27, 1820; he went to Bridgeton, 1835. and became versed in all the departments of a village

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newspaper business. In 1843 he entered Delaware College, and was graduated from that institution as valedictorian 1847, taking degree of A. B .; A. M., 1850, and D. D., 1877; Yale University conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M., 1867.

After graduation he taught a year in the academy at Newark, Delaware, and in 1848 entered Union Theological Seminary, New York, graduating 1851. He was appointed pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Southold, Long Island, and con- tinued as such until 1892, when he became pastor emeritus. The Southold Acad- emy was founded under his leadership, 1867.

Dr. Whitaker began to write for publication in 1840, and has continued ever since. Many of his sermons and addresses have been published. Among his books are "A History of Southold" (1881); "Leaves of All Seasons," book of poems (1894). He is an honorary member of New Haven Colony Historical Society ; a councilor of Long Island Historical Society ; a founder, over twenty years vice-president. of Suffolk County Historical Society.

Dr. Epher Whitaker married, January 28. 1852, Hannah Maria Force, of Han- over, New Jersey ; they had four children :

William Force Whitaker, b., Southold, May 6, 1853; educated in Southold Academy; graduated, first in the class of 1873, at Univ of Pa. (A. B.) ; A. M. in 1876, and D. D., Union College, 1899; graduated from Union Theological Seminary, 1876, becoming acting pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Bridge Hampton, N. Y .; pastor of the St. Cloud Church, Orange, N. J., 1877-94; pastor of First Presbyterian Church at Albany, N. Y., 1894-1907, and now pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, N. J. Since 1894 has been a director of Union Theological Seminary; since 1901, commissioner of Auburn Theological Seminary; since 1898, chaplain of Sons of Revo- lution. He has traveled extensively; has published many historical and other addresses a book on "Swiss Travel," 1889; "Southold's Centuries," 1891. He is unm .;

Sarah Whitaker, dau. of Epher and Hannah M., b. Dec. 5, 1855, was educated at South- old Academy, graduated at Mount Holyoke Seminary, Mass., and for some time prin- cipal of Southold Academy; d. Nov. 13, 1887; unm .;

Martha Whitaker, second dau., b. April 20, 1858; graduated at Southold Academy and Mount Holyoke Seminary; d. March 2, 1905; unm .;

Ellen Bertha Whitaker, third dau., b. March 18, 1860; educated at Southold Academy and at Wellesly College, 1879-83: further pursued her studies in Paris, France.

CLEMENT WHITAKER, seventh child of Reuel and Sarah, was born October 28, 1826; entered office of Bridgeton Chronicle ; mastered the business of a country newspaper ; in 1855, went to Bloomington, Indiana, and established The Bloom- ington Republican, of which he was proprietor and editor until his death, March 5, 1873. He married. May 14, 1860, Harriet Cornelia Cochran, daughter of James and Harriet (Deming) Cochran. They had five children, three of whom died without children, the other two are:

Clement Epher Whitaker, b. April 3, 1861; m., Oct. 7, 1882, Orpha Sare, d. Jan. 4. 1900; they had four children, two of whom d. young : Herbert Whitaker, b. Jan., 1890;

Jennie Whitaker, b. April, 1892.

George Morton Whitaker, b. Nov. 21, 1863, of Bloomington, Ind .; m., Nov. 1, 1896, Mrs. Mary (Davis) Kennedy, dau. of Robert T. and Anna C. Davis; they had two daus., d. inf

HARRIETT ANN WHITAKER, eighth child of Reuel and Sarah, born February 14, 1829; graduated at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, 1853; married, March 5, 1860, John- son P. Clark, a native of Watertown, New York, of Irving College. Tennessee.

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The college, with other property, was destroyed by fire during the Civil War ; after the war, he was in the employ of the Census Bureau until his death, May 2, 1890, at Cleveland, Tennessee ; Harriet died in McMinnville, Tennessee, June 22, 1901 ; they had no children.

FRANKLIN LAWRANCE WHITAKER, ninth child of Reuel and Sarah, born August 14, 1831, graduated at Bridgeton High School about 1850; in 1865 he moved to Camden, New Jersey, and engaged in business until his death, October 15, 1889. He married, September 21, 1854, Lydia Leaming Ross, born November 21, 1829, in Cape May county, New Jersey, a descendant of Rev. John Moore, of Newtown, Long Island. They had issne :

JULIA ROSS WHITAKER, b. Nov. 12, 1855; m. William Ross Hunt;

LEMUEL WHITAKER, b. Nov. 22, 1857; m. Clara Porter Wheeler;

Clarence Bartlett Whitaker, b. May 8, 1859, at Cape May, N. J .; is unm .;

HARRY VAN DYKE WHITAKER, twin of Clarence; m. (first) Balbina de Cuevas, (second) Caroline Martha Crawford;

FRANK LEAMING WHITAKER, b. Feb. 15, 1861; m. Frank Sanderson Kintzing;

HERBERT COLEMAN WHITAKER, b. Oct. 31, 1862; m. Agnes Tweed;

Cora Whitaker, b. May 17, 1865; m. Charles Jacob Yocum.

JULIA ROSS WHITAKER, eldest child of Franklin and Lydia, born November 12, 1855, graduated from Trenton Normal School, 1872; married William Ross Hunt, son of William Schenk and Matilda Glenn (Ross) Hunt. His wife, Julia, died in Camden, November 13. 1883; they had two daughters, one of whom died in infancy :

Jeannette Pallen Hunt, b. Feb. 17, 1882.

LEMUEL WHITAKER, born November 22, 1857, entered University of Pennsyl- vania (class of 1879), graduated, 1881 from, Columbia College (A. B.) ; A. M., 1894; Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1902. He has been an educator all his life; was two years head master of Southold Academy; two years principal of graded schools in the west ; fifteen years in charge of department of literature and language in Northeast Manual Training High School of Philadelphia, and is now principal of Southern High School ; president of Philadelphia Alumni Association of Columbia University. He married, at Greenport, Long Island, January 13, 1885, Clara Porter, daughter of William J. Wheeler ; no issue.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 101

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 978

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978