This youngest son was born at the homestead where he now resides, at Woodbury
(a part of the East Woods tract) on the 11th of March 1821, and here on his
father's farm his early days were spent. The foundation of his education was
laid in the common schools, but in a seat of learning by the family fireside,
with Scudder V. Whitney as his tutor, he acquired most of that mental discipline
which fitted him for the place he was destined to fill. Nor was his education
all that he began in the old country school- house; for here as a pupil he won
the confidence of the people so far that in the winter when he was but eighteen
years of age he was invited to become the teacher in the school where he had
hitherto been a pupil. He taught here two terms, and his success in this his
that school was high proof of his executive ability and good judgment. Subsequently he
attended the Oyster Bay Academy, under the Rev. Marmaduke Earle, where he learned
surveying, a science which he has since quite extensively practiced as an art. In this
capacity he has frequently served the highway commissioners, and in 1873 the board of
supervisors appointed him to act in behalf of Queens county to settle with Suffolk
county the division line between the two. Mr. Whitney in politics is one of those
Democrats who, like poets, are born, not made; for he inherits his views and principles
from at least two generations of his ancestors. He was elected superintendent of common schools
in 1845 by this party, and has since been repeatedly elected to positions of trust in
his native town, having served six years as trustee of the Jones fund, fifteen years as
assessor, and finally at the town election in 1881 he was chosen supervisor of Oyster Bay
by a majority of 413 votes in a total of 1,843, and had a majority in each election
district in the town.
Although this is his first year in the board of supervisors his well known
ability and experience in other public duties secured his appointment on some of
the principal committees, where he is ably vindicating the judgment of his
townsmen who have called him to administer this important trust.
Mr. Whitney has for twenty years been a director in the Glen Cove Mutual
Insurance Company, and had served as trustee in his school district for a like
period when he resigned the latter position to qualify as supervisor.
As peacemaker among men he has rendered valuable service to his friends and
neighbors in a large number of cases in the community. It has frequently fallen
in the line of his duty to administer upon the estates of his deceased neighbors
or to execute their last wills, and, although not an attorney, he has been very
frequently called upon as a careful conveyancer to write deeds, draft wills and
prepare similar legal papers for his friends.
His marriage to Elizabeth Titus, youngest daughter of Henry Titus and sister
of Daniel D. Whitney's wife, took place April 9th 1849. They have reared a
family of three promising children-
Phebe T., born January 26th 1852:
Daniel S., born November 4th 1855; and
Henry C., born May 31st 1867.
(a part of the East Woods tract) on the 11th of March 1821, and here on his
father's farm his early days were spent. The foundation of his education was
laid in the common schools, but in a seat of learning by the family fireside,
with Scudder V. Whitney as his tutor, he acquired most of that mental discipline
which fitted him for the place he was destined to fill. Nor was his education
all that he began in the old country school- house; for here as a pupil he won
the confidence of the people so far that in the winter when he was but eighteen
years of age he was invited to become the teacher in the school where he had
hitherto been a pupil. He taught here two terms, and his success in this his
that school was high proof of his executive ability and good judgment. Subsequently he
attended the Oyster Bay Academy, under the Rev. Marmaduke Earle, where he learned
surveying, a science which he has since quite extensively practiced as an art. In this
capacity he has frequently served the highway commissioners, and in 1873 the board of
supervisors appointed him to act in behalf of Queens county to settle with Suffolk
county the division line between the two. Mr. Whitney in politics is one of those
Democrats who, like poets, are born, not made; for he inherits his views and principles
from at least two generations of his ancestors. He was elected superintendent of common schools
in 1845 by this party, and has since been repeatedly elected to positions of trust in
his native town, having served six years as trustee of the Jones fund, fifteen years as
assessor, and finally at the town election in 1881 he was chosen supervisor of Oyster Bay
by a majority of 413 votes in a total of 1,843, and had a majority in each election
district in the town.
Although this is his first year in the board of supervisors his well known
ability and experience in other public duties secured his appointment on some of
the principal committees, where he is ably vindicating the judgment of his
townsmen who have called him to administer this important trust.
Mr. Whitney has for twenty years been a director in the Glen Cove Mutual
Insurance Company, and had served as trustee in his school district for a like
period when he resigned the latter position to qualify as supervisor.
As peacemaker among men he has rendered valuable service to his friends and
neighbors in a large number of cases in the community. It has frequently fallen
in the line of his duty to administer upon the estates of his deceased neighbors
or to execute their last wills, and, although not an attorney, he has been very
frequently called upon as a careful conveyancer to write deeds, draft wills and
prepare similar legal papers for his friends.
His marriage to Elizabeth Titus, youngest daughter of Henry Titus and sister
of Daniel D. Whitney's wife, took place April 9th 1849. They have reared a
family of three promising children-
Phebe T., born January 26th 1852:
Daniel S., born November 4th 1855; and
Henry C., born May 31st 1867.
This youngest son was born at the homestead where he now resides, at Woodbury
(a part of the East Woods tract) on the 11th of March 1821, and here on his
father's farm his early days were spent. The foundation of his education was
laid in the common schools, but in a seat of learning by the family fireside,
with Scudder V. Whitney as his tutor, he acquired most of that mental discipline
which fitted him for the place he was destined to fill. Nor was his education
all that he began in the old country school- house; for here as a pupil he won
the confidence of the people so far that in the winter when he was but eighteen
years of age he was invited to become the teacher in the school where he had
hitherto been a pupil. He taught here two terms, and his success in this his
that school was high proof of his executive ability and good judgment. Subsequently he
attended the Oyster Bay Academy, under the Rev. Marmaduke Earle, where he learned
surveying, a science which he has since quite extensively practiced as an art. In this
capacity he has frequently served the highway commissioners, and in 1873 the board of
supervisors appointed him to act in behalf of Queens county to settle with Suffolk
county the division line between the two. Mr. Whitney in politics is one of those
Democrats who, like poets, are born, not made; for he inherits his views and principles
from at least two generations of his ancestors. He was elected superintendent of common schools
in 1845 by this party, and has since been repeatedly elected to positions of trust in
his native town, having served six years as trustee of the Jones fund, fifteen years as
assessor, and finally at the town election in 1881 he was chosen supervisor of Oyster Bay
by a majority of 413 votes in a total of 1,843, and had a majority in each election
district in the town.
Although this is his first year in the board of supervisors his well known
ability and experience in other public duties secured his appointment on some of
the principal committees, where he is ably vindicating the judgment of his
townsmen who have called him to administer this important trust.
Mr. Whitney has for twenty years been a director in the Glen Cove Mutual
Insurance Company, and had served as trustee in his school district for a like
period when he resigned the latter position to qualify as supervisor.
As peacemaker among men he has rendered valuable service to his friends and
neighbors in a large number of cases in the community. It has frequently fallen
in the line of his duty to administer upon the estates of his deceased neighbors
or to execute their last wills, and, although not an attorney, he has been very
frequently called upon as a careful conveyancer to write deeds, draft wills and
prepare similar legal papers for his friends.
His marriage to Elizabeth Titus, youngest daughter of Henry Titus and sister
of Daniel D. Whitney's wife, took place April 9th 1849. They have reared a
family of three promising children-
Phebe T., born January 26th 1852:
Daniel S., born November 4th 1855; and
Henry C., born May 31st 1867.
(a part of the East Woods tract) on the 11th of March 1821, and here on his
father's farm his early days were spent. The foundation of his education was
laid in the common schools, but in a seat of learning by the family fireside,
with Scudder V. Whitney as his tutor, he acquired most of that mental discipline
which fitted him for the place he was destined to fill. Nor was his education
all that he began in the old country school- house; for here as a pupil he won
the confidence of the people so far that in the winter when he was but eighteen
years of age he was invited to become the teacher in the school where he had
hitherto been a pupil. He taught here two terms, and his success in this his
that school was high proof of his executive ability and good judgment. Subsequently he
attended the Oyster Bay Academy, under the Rev. Marmaduke Earle, where he learned
surveying, a science which he has since quite extensively practiced as an art. In this
capacity he has frequently served the highway commissioners, and in 1873 the board of
supervisors appointed him to act in behalf of Queens county to settle with Suffolk
county the division line between the two. Mr. Whitney in politics is one of those
Democrats who, like poets, are born, not made; for he inherits his views and principles
from at least two generations of his ancestors. He was elected superintendent of common schools
in 1845 by this party, and has since been repeatedly elected to positions of trust in
his native town, having served six years as trustee of the Jones fund, fifteen years as
assessor, and finally at the town election in 1881 he was chosen supervisor of Oyster Bay
by a majority of 413 votes in a total of 1,843, and had a majority in each election
district in the town.
Although this is his first year in the board of supervisors his well known
ability and experience in other public duties secured his appointment on some of
the principal committees, where he is ably vindicating the judgment of his
townsmen who have called him to administer this important trust.
Mr. Whitney has for twenty years been a director in the Glen Cove Mutual
Insurance Company, and had served as trustee in his school district for a like
period when he resigned the latter position to qualify as supervisor.
As peacemaker among men he has rendered valuable service to his friends and
neighbors in a large number of cases in the community. It has frequently fallen
in the line of his duty to administer upon the estates of his deceased neighbors
or to execute their last wills, and, although not an attorney, he has been very
frequently called upon as a careful conveyancer to write deeds, draft wills and
prepare similar legal papers for his friends.
His marriage to Elizabeth Titus, youngest daughter of Henry Titus and sister
of Daniel D. Whitney's wife, took place April 9th 1849. They have reared a
family of three promising children-
Phebe T., born January 26th 1852:
Daniel S., born November 4th 1855; and
Henry C., born May 31st 1867.
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