Elbridge Cutler Whiting was the son of Elbridge Gerry Whiting, in the shoe business in Holliston, sergeant Company B, 16th Massachusetts Volunteers 1861-62, son of Daniel and Sally (Bridges) Whiting of East Holhston. His mother was Eliza Ann (Cutler) Whiting, daughter of John Milton and Electa (Burr) Cutler of Holliston.
Elbridge was a graduate of Holliston High School and Phillips-Andover; BA Amherst 1888 (member Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa), attended Yale Divinity School 1888-91 (B D 1891; Commencement speaker). He was ordained September 30, 1891, in Faith Church, Springfield, Mass.
He married on June 4,1891, in Castine, Me , to Louise Dana Adams, daughter of Alfred Frederick & Isabella Francis (Osborn) Adams. Children:
1. Louise Adams (Mrs Edwin E Hebb, died May 17,1929),
2. Charlotte Adams, the wife of Walter Thompson Clark (B S Connecticut State College 1918),
3. Helen Adams (B.A Wellesley College 1919), the wife of John Henderson,
4. Elbridge Cutler, Jr (B.A. Amherst College 1921),
5. Dana (B S Bowdoin 1924),
6. Phillips Dwight
He was minister of Faith Church 1891-92, minister Fifth Avenue Church, Minneapolis, 1892-96 and supplied Congregational Church in Tewksbury, Mass, 1896-99, in 1899 organized Plymouth Church, Belmont, Mass., and minister there until 1904; minister South Sudbury, Mass, 1904-14, founded Whiting Hall, a private school in South Sudbury, and headmaster 1913-26, supply minister at various churches 1926-31 (four years at Wayland, Mass) and at West Gloucester, Mass, 1931-36, since 1936 had resided in Boston.
He published many of his sermons as well as addresses delivered at church and secular celebrations of a historical character, author of numerous pamphlets, secretary Boston Ministers' Association, delegate from Middlesex Conference and Association to National Council of Congregational Churches in Detroit 1929; member Suffolk West Association and Old South Church, Boston.
Buried in Lake Grove Cemetery. Survived by wife, two daughters, three sons and ten grandchildren.
[From: 1938-1939 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, page 269.]
Elbridge was a graduate of Holliston High School and Phillips-Andover; BA Amherst 1888 (member Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa), attended Yale Divinity School 1888-91 (B D 1891; Commencement speaker). He was ordained September 30, 1891, in Faith Church, Springfield, Mass.
He married on June 4,1891, in Castine, Me , to Louise Dana Adams, daughter of Alfred Frederick & Isabella Francis (Osborn) Adams. Children:
1. Louise Adams (Mrs Edwin E Hebb, died May 17,1929),
2. Charlotte Adams, the wife of Walter Thompson Clark (B S Connecticut State College 1918),
3. Helen Adams (B.A Wellesley College 1919), the wife of John Henderson,
4. Elbridge Cutler, Jr (B.A. Amherst College 1921),
5. Dana (B S Bowdoin 1924),
6. Phillips Dwight
He was minister of Faith Church 1891-92, minister Fifth Avenue Church, Minneapolis, 1892-96 and supplied Congregational Church in Tewksbury, Mass, 1896-99, in 1899 organized Plymouth Church, Belmont, Mass., and minister there until 1904; minister South Sudbury, Mass, 1904-14, founded Whiting Hall, a private school in South Sudbury, and headmaster 1913-26, supply minister at various churches 1926-31 (four years at Wayland, Mass) and at West Gloucester, Mass, 1931-36, since 1936 had resided in Boston.
He published many of his sermons as well as addresses delivered at church and secular celebrations of a historical character, author of numerous pamphlets, secretary Boston Ministers' Association, delegate from Middlesex Conference and Association to National Council of Congregational Churches in Detroit 1929; member Suffolk West Association and Old South Church, Boston.
Buried in Lake Grove Cemetery. Survived by wife, two daughters, three sons and ten grandchildren.
[From: 1938-1939 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, page 269.]
Elbridge Cutler Whiting was the son of Elbridge Gerry Whiting, in the shoe business in Holliston, sergeant Company B, 16th Massachusetts Volunteers 1861-62, son of Daniel and Sally (Bridges) Whiting of East Holhston. His mother was Eliza Ann (Cutler) Whiting, daughter of John Milton and Electa (Burr) Cutler of Holliston.
Elbridge was a graduate of Holliston High School and Phillips-Andover; BA Amherst 1888 (member Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa), attended Yale Divinity School 1888-91 (B D 1891; Commencement speaker). He was ordained September 30, 1891, in Faith Church, Springfield, Mass.
He married on June 4,1891, in Castine, Me , to Louise Dana Adams, daughter of Alfred Frederick & Isabella Francis (Osborn) Adams. Children:
1. Louise Adams (Mrs Edwin E Hebb, died May 17,1929),
2. Charlotte Adams, the wife of Walter Thompson Clark (B S Connecticut State College 1918),
3. Helen Adams (B.A Wellesley College 1919), the wife of John Henderson,
4. Elbridge Cutler, Jr (B.A. Amherst College 1921),
5. Dana (B S Bowdoin 1924),
6. Phillips Dwight
He was minister of Faith Church 1891-92, minister Fifth Avenue Church, Minneapolis, 1892-96 and supplied Congregational Church in Tewksbury, Mass, 1896-99, in 1899 organized Plymouth Church, Belmont, Mass., and minister there until 1904; minister South Sudbury, Mass, 1904-14, founded Whiting Hall, a private school in South Sudbury, and headmaster 1913-26, supply minister at various churches 1926-31 (four years at Wayland, Mass) and at West Gloucester, Mass, 1931-36, since 1936 had resided in Boston.
He published many of his sermons as well as addresses delivered at church and secular celebrations of a historical character, author of numerous pamphlets, secretary Boston Ministers' Association, delegate from Middlesex Conference and Association to National Council of Congregational Churches in Detroit 1929; member Suffolk West Association and Old South Church, Boston.
Buried in Lake Grove Cemetery. Survived by wife, two daughters, three sons and ten grandchildren.
[From: 1938-1939 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, page 269.]
Elbridge was a graduate of Holliston High School and Phillips-Andover; BA Amherst 1888 (member Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa), attended Yale Divinity School 1888-91 (B D 1891; Commencement speaker). He was ordained September 30, 1891, in Faith Church, Springfield, Mass.
He married on June 4,1891, in Castine, Me , to Louise Dana Adams, daughter of Alfred Frederick & Isabella Francis (Osborn) Adams. Children:
1. Louise Adams (Mrs Edwin E Hebb, died May 17,1929),
2. Charlotte Adams, the wife of Walter Thompson Clark (B S Connecticut State College 1918),
3. Helen Adams (B.A Wellesley College 1919), the wife of John Henderson,
4. Elbridge Cutler, Jr (B.A. Amherst College 1921),
5. Dana (B S Bowdoin 1924),
6. Phillips Dwight
He was minister of Faith Church 1891-92, minister Fifth Avenue Church, Minneapolis, 1892-96 and supplied Congregational Church in Tewksbury, Mass, 1896-99, in 1899 organized Plymouth Church, Belmont, Mass., and minister there until 1904; minister South Sudbury, Mass, 1904-14, founded Whiting Hall, a private school in South Sudbury, and headmaster 1913-26, supply minister at various churches 1926-31 (four years at Wayland, Mass) and at West Gloucester, Mass, 1931-36, since 1936 had resided in Boston.
He published many of his sermons as well as addresses delivered at church and secular celebrations of a historical character, author of numerous pamphlets, secretary Boston Ministers' Association, delegate from Middlesex Conference and Association to National Council of Congregational Churches in Detroit 1929; member Suffolk West Association and Old South Church, Boston.
Buried in Lake Grove Cemetery. Survived by wife, two daughters, three sons and ten grandchildren.
[From: 1938-1939 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, page 269.]
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