One of Cheyenne's earliest settlers and most prominent business men, Ithamar C. Whipple, died at his residence, 1723 Carey avenue, yesterday afternoon. He had been ill for the past year and a hardening of the arteries, together with other complications, caused his death yesterday. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Baptist church.
Mr. Whipple was a native of Chautauqua county, New York and was born in 1839, on December 18. With his parents he removed to Indiana at the age of seven, and when that section of the country was practically a wilderness. The family remained in Indiana until 1859 when they removed to Marion, Iowa, where they lived until 1867, and then crossed the plains to Colorado, traveling in wagons to North Platte.
Arriving in the Nebraska town they found that the regular stages were engaged for three weeks ahead by emigrants for the west, but they finally managed to secure transportation by traveling with an outfit of mining machinery which was destined for Idaho Springs, Col. From the Colorado town he came to Cheyenne, and remained here for the forty years preceding his death.
Arriving in Cheyenne, which was then little more than a camp, Mr. Whipple secured a clerkship in the general store owned by F. Nuckels, who was at one time a delegate from this state to congress. Working in this capacity for about a year, he finally decided to go into business for himself and opened a grocery store just back of the present location of the Palace drug store.
Despite the fact that he refused to sell whisky as did the other grocers, and kept his store closed on Sunday, he prospered, and it was not until his store burned down while he was in the east purchasing supplies that he received his first setback. Even then he stopped at the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co. in Chicago on his way back, and so great was the esteem in which he was held by the members of that firm that they offered to send him a complete new stock of goods and used their influence to induce the railroad company to transport stock to Cheyenne at half the regular tariff.
On completion of the Whipple block, which he built with Messrs. Taylor and Pease, and which is now occupied by the Barry book store and known as the Union Mercantile block, he moved his business into that building and occupied it for a considerable time.
Mr. Whipple was a director and vice president of the Stock Growers' bank, as well as a large stockholder in that concern. He was at one time in the cattle business with W. W. Sawyer and later with Henry G. Hay. He built the residence now occupied by Judge Lacey.
Of late years he has not engaged actively in business, but in the early days he was one of the most active and prominent men in all of the business and social affairs of the community, being at one time president of the city council and acting mayor and again member of the territorial legislature.
He is survived by a wife and son, W. L. Whipple, cashier of the Stock Growers' National bank; a daughter, Mrs. Geneva W. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo., and a brother, E. P. Whipple, of Seattle, Wash.
Out of respect for the deceased man, the banks will close at 1:45 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the funeral occurring at near that hour.
The Phythian Sisters organization will attend the funeral of Mr. Whipple in a body. They will meet in the church at 2 o'clock.
© Wyoming Tribune no. 26 January 31, 1912, page 1 & 2
Obituary located by Lostnwyomn March 2013.
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Brothers:
1. Daniel Franklin Whipple
2. Freeman T. Whipple
3. Edmond Palestine Whipple, son of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
Sisters:
1. Phebe Jane (Whipple) Millard, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Nancy F. (Thompkins) Whipple.
2. Nancy Ann (Whipple) Van Ness, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Nancy F. (Thompkins) Whipple.
3. Lydia Lucelia Whipple 1832-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
4. Olive Whipple 1833-1841, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
5. Mary C. Whipple 1838-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
6. Emma E. Whipple Abt 1847-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
Mr. Whipple was a native of Chautauqua county, New York and was born in 1839, on December 18. With his parents he removed to Indiana at the age of seven, and when that section of the country was practically a wilderness. The family remained in Indiana until 1859 when they removed to Marion, Iowa, where they lived until 1867, and then crossed the plains to Colorado, traveling in wagons to North Platte.
Arriving in the Nebraska town they found that the regular stages were engaged for three weeks ahead by emigrants for the west, but they finally managed to secure transportation by traveling with an outfit of mining machinery which was destined for Idaho Springs, Col. From the Colorado town he came to Cheyenne, and remained here for the forty years preceding his death.
Arriving in Cheyenne, which was then little more than a camp, Mr. Whipple secured a clerkship in the general store owned by F. Nuckels, who was at one time a delegate from this state to congress. Working in this capacity for about a year, he finally decided to go into business for himself and opened a grocery store just back of the present location of the Palace drug store.
Despite the fact that he refused to sell whisky as did the other grocers, and kept his store closed on Sunday, he prospered, and it was not until his store burned down while he was in the east purchasing supplies that he received his first setback. Even then he stopped at the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co. in Chicago on his way back, and so great was the esteem in which he was held by the members of that firm that they offered to send him a complete new stock of goods and used their influence to induce the railroad company to transport stock to Cheyenne at half the regular tariff.
On completion of the Whipple block, which he built with Messrs. Taylor and Pease, and which is now occupied by the Barry book store and known as the Union Mercantile block, he moved his business into that building and occupied it for a considerable time.
Mr. Whipple was a director and vice president of the Stock Growers' bank, as well as a large stockholder in that concern. He was at one time in the cattle business with W. W. Sawyer and later with Henry G. Hay. He built the residence now occupied by Judge Lacey.
Of late years he has not engaged actively in business, but in the early days he was one of the most active and prominent men in all of the business and social affairs of the community, being at one time president of the city council and acting mayor and again member of the territorial legislature.
He is survived by a wife and son, W. L. Whipple, cashier of the Stock Growers' National bank; a daughter, Mrs. Geneva W. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo., and a brother, E. P. Whipple, of Seattle, Wash.
Out of respect for the deceased man, the banks will close at 1:45 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the funeral occurring at near that hour.
The Phythian Sisters organization will attend the funeral of Mr. Whipple in a body. They will meet in the church at 2 o'clock.
© Wyoming Tribune no. 26 January 31, 1912, page 1 & 2
Obituary located by Lostnwyomn March 2013.
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Brothers:
1. Daniel Franklin Whipple
2. Freeman T. Whipple
3. Edmond Palestine Whipple, son of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
Sisters:
1. Phebe Jane (Whipple) Millard, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Nancy F. (Thompkins) Whipple.
2. Nancy Ann (Whipple) Van Ness, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Nancy F. (Thompkins) Whipple.
3. Lydia Lucelia Whipple 1832-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
4. Olive Whipple 1833-1841, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
5. Mary C. Whipple 1838-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
6. Emma E. Whipple Abt 1847-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
One of Cheyenne's earliest settlers and most prominent business men, Ithamar C. Whipple, died at his residence, 1723 Carey avenue, yesterday afternoon. He had been ill for the past year and a hardening of the arteries, together with other complications, caused his death yesterday. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Baptist church.
Mr. Whipple was a native of Chautauqua county, New York and was born in 1839, on December 18. With his parents he removed to Indiana at the age of seven, and when that section of the country was practically a wilderness. The family remained in Indiana until 1859 when they removed to Marion, Iowa, where they lived until 1867, and then crossed the plains to Colorado, traveling in wagons to North Platte.
Arriving in the Nebraska town they found that the regular stages were engaged for three weeks ahead by emigrants for the west, but they finally managed to secure transportation by traveling with an outfit of mining machinery which was destined for Idaho Springs, Col. From the Colorado town he came to Cheyenne, and remained here for the forty years preceding his death.
Arriving in Cheyenne, which was then little more than a camp, Mr. Whipple secured a clerkship in the general store owned by F. Nuckels, who was at one time a delegate from this state to congress. Working in this capacity for about a year, he finally decided to go into business for himself and opened a grocery store just back of the present location of the Palace drug store.
Despite the fact that he refused to sell whisky as did the other grocers, and kept his store closed on Sunday, he prospered, and it was not until his store burned down while he was in the east purchasing supplies that he received his first setback. Even then he stopped at the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co. in Chicago on his way back, and so great was the esteem in which he was held by the members of that firm that they offered to send him a complete new stock of goods and used their influence to induce the railroad company to transport stock to Cheyenne at half the regular tariff.
On completion of the Whipple block, which he built with Messrs. Taylor and Pease, and which is now occupied by the Barry book store and known as the Union Mercantile block, he moved his business into that building and occupied it for a considerable time.
Mr. Whipple was a director and vice president of the Stock Growers' bank, as well as a large stockholder in that concern. He was at one time in the cattle business with W. W. Sawyer and later with Henry G. Hay. He built the residence now occupied by Judge Lacey.
Of late years he has not engaged actively in business, but in the early days he was one of the most active and prominent men in all of the business and social affairs of the community, being at one time president of the city council and acting mayor and again member of the territorial legislature.
He is survived by a wife and son, W. L. Whipple, cashier of the Stock Growers' National bank; a daughter, Mrs. Geneva W. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo., and a brother, E. P. Whipple, of Seattle, Wash.
Out of respect for the deceased man, the banks will close at 1:45 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the funeral occurring at near that hour.
The Phythian Sisters organization will attend the funeral of Mr. Whipple in a body. They will meet in the church at 2 o'clock.
© Wyoming Tribune no. 26 January 31, 1912, page 1 & 2
Obituary located by Lostnwyomn March 2013.
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Brothers:
1. Daniel Franklin Whipple
2. Freeman T. Whipple
3. Edmond Palestine Whipple, son of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
Sisters:
1. Phebe Jane (Whipple) Millard, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Nancy F. (Thompkins) Whipple.
2. Nancy Ann (Whipple) Van Ness, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Nancy F. (Thompkins) Whipple.
3. Lydia Lucelia Whipple 1832-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
4. Olive Whipple 1833-1841, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
5. Mary C. Whipple 1838-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
6. Emma E. Whipple Abt 1847-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
Mr. Whipple was a native of Chautauqua county, New York and was born in 1839, on December 18. With his parents he removed to Indiana at the age of seven, and when that section of the country was practically a wilderness. The family remained in Indiana until 1859 when they removed to Marion, Iowa, where they lived until 1867, and then crossed the plains to Colorado, traveling in wagons to North Platte.
Arriving in the Nebraska town they found that the regular stages were engaged for three weeks ahead by emigrants for the west, but they finally managed to secure transportation by traveling with an outfit of mining machinery which was destined for Idaho Springs, Col. From the Colorado town he came to Cheyenne, and remained here for the forty years preceding his death.
Arriving in Cheyenne, which was then little more than a camp, Mr. Whipple secured a clerkship in the general store owned by F. Nuckels, who was at one time a delegate from this state to congress. Working in this capacity for about a year, he finally decided to go into business for himself and opened a grocery store just back of the present location of the Palace drug store.
Despite the fact that he refused to sell whisky as did the other grocers, and kept his store closed on Sunday, he prospered, and it was not until his store burned down while he was in the east purchasing supplies that he received his first setback. Even then he stopped at the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co. in Chicago on his way back, and so great was the esteem in which he was held by the members of that firm that they offered to send him a complete new stock of goods and used their influence to induce the railroad company to transport stock to Cheyenne at half the regular tariff.
On completion of the Whipple block, which he built with Messrs. Taylor and Pease, and which is now occupied by the Barry book store and known as the Union Mercantile block, he moved his business into that building and occupied it for a considerable time.
Mr. Whipple was a director and vice president of the Stock Growers' bank, as well as a large stockholder in that concern. He was at one time in the cattle business with W. W. Sawyer and later with Henry G. Hay. He built the residence now occupied by Judge Lacey.
Of late years he has not engaged actively in business, but in the early days he was one of the most active and prominent men in all of the business and social affairs of the community, being at one time president of the city council and acting mayor and again member of the territorial legislature.
He is survived by a wife and son, W. L. Whipple, cashier of the Stock Growers' National bank; a daughter, Mrs. Geneva W. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo., and a brother, E. P. Whipple, of Seattle, Wash.
Out of respect for the deceased man, the banks will close at 1:45 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the funeral occurring at near that hour.
The Phythian Sisters organization will attend the funeral of Mr. Whipple in a body. They will meet in the church at 2 o'clock.
© Wyoming Tribune no. 26 January 31, 1912, page 1 & 2
Obituary located by Lostnwyomn March 2013.
________________________
Brothers:
1. Daniel Franklin Whipple
2. Freeman T. Whipple
3. Edmond Palestine Whipple, son of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
Sisters:
1. Phebe Jane (Whipple) Millard, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Nancy F. (Thompkins) Whipple.
2. Nancy Ann (Whipple) Van Ness, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Nancy F. (Thompkins) Whipple.
3. Lydia Lucelia Whipple 1832-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
4. Olive Whipple 1833-1841, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
5. Mary C. Whipple 1838-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
6. Emma E. Whipple Abt 1847-?, daughter of Cyrus Avery Whipple and Mary Ann (Freeman) Whipple.
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