additional information from Ohio Death Certificate
William M. Whitney
b. May 17, 1873 camden, Ohio
d. Feb. 3, 1950 Oberlin, Ohio (Allen Memorial Hsp.)
lived at 213 Ninth St., Elyria, OH
married
occupation: real estate broker
*******
From "Standard History of Lorin County"
by Geo Frederick Wright
William Whitney.
There is no little significance in the motto which Mr. Whitney used during his campaign as republican nominee for sheriff of Lorain County in 1914. "Bill Whitney always knows you" suggests one of the qualifications most needed in political life, and in this case the reverse of the motto was also true, since practically every responsible citizen of Lorain County knows Bill Whitney. The citizens of Elyria knew him on account of his fourteen years of capable and efficient service on the police force, and the people of the county at large are now becoming well acquainted with his admirable management of the office of sheriff. Sheriff Whitney is by no means a passive factor in the civic life of his home county. His name everywhere suggests the character of an upright citizen, and he has been a vigorous force in behalf of clean politics, and like his father is strongly opposed to the domination of the saloon element.
William Whitney was born in Camden, Lorain County, Ohio, within seven miles of the University Town of Oberlin, May 13, 1874. His parents are Thomas and Philena (Johnson) Whitney. His father was born at Kipton in Lorain County and the mother was born at Painesville in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Grandfather William Whitney came to Ohio from England, and was one of the early day settlers of Lorain County. The maternal grandfather, Solomon Johnson, was for two terms sheriff of Fulton County, Ohio. Thomas Whitney and wife are now living on a small farm which they bought for their declining years south of the Village of Kipton. At one time Thomas owned 800 acres of land in Lorain County, including the site of the present Village of Kipton. During the Civil war he served from the beginning to the end of hostilities, as a private in the Forty-third Ohio Regiment. He is a man of exemplary personal habits, never drinks and never has. and has proved a decided influence in his community in behalf of permanent restrictions upon the liquor traffic. He attends the Disciples Church of which he is a regular member. In the family were six children, two of whom died in infancy, and there are two daughters and two sons still living: Anna, Mrs. Claud Jenkins of Berlin Heights, Ohio; William; Hattie, wife of B. A. Perkins of Elyria; and George, who is a farmer and has eighty acres adjoining his father's place near the Village of Kipton. All the children were born in Lorain County, and attended the public schools of Camden.
Sheriff Whitney's vigorous personality and ability are reflections from his rugged and thorough experience and training as a young man. He lived at home on the farm, worked in the fields and attended school until the age of twenty, and after his marriage moved to Oberlin, where for a little more than a year he was foreman in the lumber yards of George Persons. He then came to Elyria and found work under the superintendent of streets. At the same time he put in an application for a place on the Elyria police force. It was the custom then for the members of the city council to vote upon such applications, and a majority was required for the employment of any applicant. When Mr. Whitney was taken on to the force, he received a unanimous verdict from the councilmen and thereafter continued a member of the police force of Elyria fourteen years, and throughout that time, at each recurring spring election, when the council formally voted upon the police force, he received an endorsement from every member of the council. That is a record of confidence which is well deserved and of which Sheriff Whitney is properly proud. For three years he was a patrolman, and three years a police detective, and was then made captain and chief. He continued chief of police until 1911, when a change in administration occurred, the democratic mayor removing most of the republicans from the municipal offices and substituting democrats in their stead. In the meantime Mr. Whitney had already determined to become a candidate for the office of county sheriff, and as his plans were already, well under way he left the position of chief of police without regret.
During the primaries Mr. Whitney was one of thirteen candidates for the nomination for sheriff, and gained the nomination by about 1,300 votes more than his nearest opponent. In the election he was chosen by over 3,800 votes in majority of those received by the democrat progressive candidate. He was regularly installed in the office of sheriff on January 4, 1915, for a term of two years.
While Mr. Whitney is new in the office of sheriff he has already shown a vigor of administration which has proved gratifying to his many supporters and is an earnest of a strong and sufficient force for law and order in Lorain County. He had been in office about four months when he discovered nine automobiles that had been stolen by a clique of Cleveland automobile thieves operating in Lorain and other counties. At the present writing an automobile case is being tried before the local courts of the circuit and is attracting wide attention not only in Ohio but in other states. Several convictions have been pronounced upon the members of the gang and they were sentenced to prison. This is an organization which has worked with a great deal of cleverness in stealing and disposing of automobiles. They have made a practice of stealing cars in first class condition, hurrying them to a plant in Cleveland, where the cars are made over and so completely changed in all ordinary identification marks that the original owners from whom they were stolen could by no possibility establish proofs fitting their original machines. The remade cars are sold and the profits divided among those interested in the steal.
Sheriff Whitney is a man thoroughly honest and competent in his official duties, and is moreover a gentleman and has hosts of friends. He is affiliated with Harlan P. Chapman Post of the Sons of Veterans at Elyria, with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He also belongs to the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and in politics is a republican.
Last but not least there should be mentioned another important factor in the career of Sheriff Whitney. This was his marriage to Miss Mary Dunkle of Wellington, Lorain County. They were married at Elyria. Her father, Frank Dunkle, was a soldier in the Civil war on the Union side, and lived for many years at Wellington, where he died in 1913. Mrs. Whitney was only seven years of age when she lost her mother. Mrs. Whitney was born in Pennsylvania, was educated at Lattisburg, Wayne county, Ohio, where her parents lived during her girlhood, and since her marriage has proved herself an excellent homemaker and a devoted mother to their only daughter, Reva Mae Whitney, who was born in Elvria, received her education in that city, was married July 22, 1915, to Hugh McCray, of Oberlin, Ohio.
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William M. Whitney
b. May 17, 1873 camden, Ohio
d. Feb. 3, 1950 Oberlin, Ohio (Allen Memorial Hsp.)
lived at 213 Ninth St., Elyria, OH
married
occupation: real estate broker
*******
From "Standard History of Lorin County"
by Geo Frederick Wright
William Whitney.
There is no little significance in the motto which Mr. Whitney used during his campaign as republican nominee for sheriff of Lorain County in 1914. "Bill Whitney always knows you" suggests one of the qualifications most needed in political life, and in this case the reverse of the motto was also true, since practically every responsible citizen of Lorain County knows Bill Whitney. The citizens of Elyria knew him on account of his fourteen years of capable and efficient service on the police force, and the people of the county at large are now becoming well acquainted with his admirable management of the office of sheriff. Sheriff Whitney is by no means a passive factor in the civic life of his home county. His name everywhere suggests the character of an upright citizen, and he has been a vigorous force in behalf of clean politics, and like his father is strongly opposed to the domination of the saloon element.
William Whitney was born in Camden, Lorain County, Ohio, within seven miles of the University Town of Oberlin, May 13, 1874. His parents are Thomas and Philena (Johnson) Whitney. His father was born at Kipton in Lorain County and the mother was born at Painesville in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Grandfather William Whitney came to Ohio from England, and was one of the early day settlers of Lorain County. The maternal grandfather, Solomon Johnson, was for two terms sheriff of Fulton County, Ohio. Thomas Whitney and wife are now living on a small farm which they bought for their declining years south of the Village of Kipton. At one time Thomas owned 800 acres of land in Lorain County, including the site of the present Village of Kipton. During the Civil war he served from the beginning to the end of hostilities, as a private in the Forty-third Ohio Regiment. He is a man of exemplary personal habits, never drinks and never has. and has proved a decided influence in his community in behalf of permanent restrictions upon the liquor traffic. He attends the Disciples Church of which he is a regular member. In the family were six children, two of whom died in infancy, and there are two daughters and two sons still living: Anna, Mrs. Claud Jenkins of Berlin Heights, Ohio; William; Hattie, wife of B. A. Perkins of Elyria; and George, who is a farmer and has eighty acres adjoining his father's place near the Village of Kipton. All the children were born in Lorain County, and attended the public schools of Camden.
Sheriff Whitney's vigorous personality and ability are reflections from his rugged and thorough experience and training as a young man. He lived at home on the farm, worked in the fields and attended school until the age of twenty, and after his marriage moved to Oberlin, where for a little more than a year he was foreman in the lumber yards of George Persons. He then came to Elyria and found work under the superintendent of streets. At the same time he put in an application for a place on the Elyria police force. It was the custom then for the members of the city council to vote upon such applications, and a majority was required for the employment of any applicant. When Mr. Whitney was taken on to the force, he received a unanimous verdict from the councilmen and thereafter continued a member of the police force of Elyria fourteen years, and throughout that time, at each recurring spring election, when the council formally voted upon the police force, he received an endorsement from every member of the council. That is a record of confidence which is well deserved and of which Sheriff Whitney is properly proud. For three years he was a patrolman, and three years a police detective, and was then made captain and chief. He continued chief of police until 1911, when a change in administration occurred, the democratic mayor removing most of the republicans from the municipal offices and substituting democrats in their stead. In the meantime Mr. Whitney had already determined to become a candidate for the office of county sheriff, and as his plans were already, well under way he left the position of chief of police without regret.
During the primaries Mr. Whitney was one of thirteen candidates for the nomination for sheriff, and gained the nomination by about 1,300 votes more than his nearest opponent. In the election he was chosen by over 3,800 votes in majority of those received by the democrat progressive candidate. He was regularly installed in the office of sheriff on January 4, 1915, for a term of two years.
While Mr. Whitney is new in the office of sheriff he has already shown a vigor of administration which has proved gratifying to his many supporters and is an earnest of a strong and sufficient force for law and order in Lorain County. He had been in office about four months when he discovered nine automobiles that had been stolen by a clique of Cleveland automobile thieves operating in Lorain and other counties. At the present writing an automobile case is being tried before the local courts of the circuit and is attracting wide attention not only in Ohio but in other states. Several convictions have been pronounced upon the members of the gang and they were sentenced to prison. This is an organization which has worked with a great deal of cleverness in stealing and disposing of automobiles. They have made a practice of stealing cars in first class condition, hurrying them to a plant in Cleveland, where the cars are made over and so completely changed in all ordinary identification marks that the original owners from whom they were stolen could by no possibility establish proofs fitting their original machines. The remade cars are sold and the profits divided among those interested in the steal.
Sheriff Whitney is a man thoroughly honest and competent in his official duties, and is moreover a gentleman and has hosts of friends. He is affiliated with Harlan P. Chapman Post of the Sons of Veterans at Elyria, with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He also belongs to the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and in politics is a republican.
Last but not least there should be mentioned another important factor in the career of Sheriff Whitney. This was his marriage to Miss Mary Dunkle of Wellington, Lorain County. They were married at Elyria. Her father, Frank Dunkle, was a soldier in the Civil war on the Union side, and lived for many years at Wellington, where he died in 1913. Mrs. Whitney was only seven years of age when she lost her mother. Mrs. Whitney was born in Pennsylvania, was educated at Lattisburg, Wayne county, Ohio, where her parents lived during her girlhood, and since her marriage has proved herself an excellent homemaker and a devoted mother to their only daughter, Reva Mae Whitney, who was born in Elvria, received her education in that city, was married July 22, 1915, to Hugh McCray, of Oberlin, Ohio.
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additional information from Ohio Death Certificate
William M. Whitney
b. May 17, 1873 camden, Ohio
d. Feb. 3, 1950 Oberlin, Ohio (Allen Memorial Hsp.)
lived at 213 Ninth St., Elyria, OH
married
occupation: real estate broker
*******
From "Standard History of Lorin County"
by Geo Frederick Wright
William Whitney.
There is no little significance in the motto which Mr. Whitney used during his campaign as republican nominee for sheriff of Lorain County in 1914. "Bill Whitney always knows you" suggests one of the qualifications most needed in political life, and in this case the reverse of the motto was also true, since practically every responsible citizen of Lorain County knows Bill Whitney. The citizens of Elyria knew him on account of his fourteen years of capable and efficient service on the police force, and the people of the county at large are now becoming well acquainted with his admirable management of the office of sheriff. Sheriff Whitney is by no means a passive factor in the civic life of his home county. His name everywhere suggests the character of an upright citizen, and he has been a vigorous force in behalf of clean politics, and like his father is strongly opposed to the domination of the saloon element.
William Whitney was born in Camden, Lorain County, Ohio, within seven miles of the University Town of Oberlin, May 13, 1874. His parents are Thomas and Philena (Johnson) Whitney. His father was born at Kipton in Lorain County and the mother was born at Painesville in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Grandfather William Whitney came to Ohio from England, and was one of the early day settlers of Lorain County. The maternal grandfather, Solomon Johnson, was for two terms sheriff of Fulton County, Ohio. Thomas Whitney and wife are now living on a small farm which they bought for their declining years south of the Village of Kipton. At one time Thomas owned 800 acres of land in Lorain County, including the site of the present Village of Kipton. During the Civil war he served from the beginning to the end of hostilities, as a private in the Forty-third Ohio Regiment. He is a man of exemplary personal habits, never drinks and never has. and has proved a decided influence in his community in behalf of permanent restrictions upon the liquor traffic. He attends the Disciples Church of which he is a regular member. In the family were six children, two of whom died in infancy, and there are two daughters and two sons still living: Anna, Mrs. Claud Jenkins of Berlin Heights, Ohio; William; Hattie, wife of B. A. Perkins of Elyria; and George, who is a farmer and has eighty acres adjoining his father's place near the Village of Kipton. All the children were born in Lorain County, and attended the public schools of Camden.
Sheriff Whitney's vigorous personality and ability are reflections from his rugged and thorough experience and training as a young man. He lived at home on the farm, worked in the fields and attended school until the age of twenty, and after his marriage moved to Oberlin, where for a little more than a year he was foreman in the lumber yards of George Persons. He then came to Elyria and found work under the superintendent of streets. At the same time he put in an application for a place on the Elyria police force. It was the custom then for the members of the city council to vote upon such applications, and a majority was required for the employment of any applicant. When Mr. Whitney was taken on to the force, he received a unanimous verdict from the councilmen and thereafter continued a member of the police force of Elyria fourteen years, and throughout that time, at each recurring spring election, when the council formally voted upon the police force, he received an endorsement from every member of the council. That is a record of confidence which is well deserved and of which Sheriff Whitney is properly proud. For three years he was a patrolman, and three years a police detective, and was then made captain and chief. He continued chief of police until 1911, when a change in administration occurred, the democratic mayor removing most of the republicans from the municipal offices and substituting democrats in their stead. In the meantime Mr. Whitney had already determined to become a candidate for the office of county sheriff, and as his plans were already, well under way he left the position of chief of police without regret.
During the primaries Mr. Whitney was one of thirteen candidates for the nomination for sheriff, and gained the nomination by about 1,300 votes more than his nearest opponent. In the election he was chosen by over 3,800 votes in majority of those received by the democrat progressive candidate. He was regularly installed in the office of sheriff on January 4, 1915, for a term of two years.
While Mr. Whitney is new in the office of sheriff he has already shown a vigor of administration which has proved gratifying to his many supporters and is an earnest of a strong and sufficient force for law and order in Lorain County. He had been in office about four months when he discovered nine automobiles that had been stolen by a clique of Cleveland automobile thieves operating in Lorain and other counties. At the present writing an automobile case is being tried before the local courts of the circuit and is attracting wide attention not only in Ohio but in other states. Several convictions have been pronounced upon the members of the gang and they were sentenced to prison. This is an organization which has worked with a great deal of cleverness in stealing and disposing of automobiles. They have made a practice of stealing cars in first class condition, hurrying them to a plant in Cleveland, where the cars are made over and so completely changed in all ordinary identification marks that the original owners from whom they were stolen could by no possibility establish proofs fitting their original machines. The remade cars are sold and the profits divided among those interested in the steal.
Sheriff Whitney is a man thoroughly honest and competent in his official duties, and is moreover a gentleman and has hosts of friends. He is affiliated with Harlan P. Chapman Post of the Sons of Veterans at Elyria, with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He also belongs to the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and in politics is a republican.
Last but not least there should be mentioned another important factor in the career of Sheriff Whitney. This was his marriage to Miss Mary Dunkle of Wellington, Lorain County. They were married at Elyria. Her father, Frank Dunkle, was a soldier in the Civil war on the Union side, and lived for many years at Wellington, where he died in 1913. Mrs. Whitney was only seven years of age when she lost her mother. Mrs. Whitney was born in Pennsylvania, was educated at Lattisburg, Wayne county, Ohio, where her parents lived during her girlhood, and since her marriage has proved herself an excellent homemaker and a devoted mother to their only daughter, Reva Mae Whitney, who was born in Elvria, received her education in that city, was married July 22, 1915, to Hugh McCray, of Oberlin, Ohio.
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William M. Whitney
b. May 17, 1873 camden, Ohio
d. Feb. 3, 1950 Oberlin, Ohio (Allen Memorial Hsp.)
lived at 213 Ninth St., Elyria, OH
married
occupation: real estate broker
*******
From "Standard History of Lorin County"
by Geo Frederick Wright
William Whitney.
There is no little significance in the motto which Mr. Whitney used during his campaign as republican nominee for sheriff of Lorain County in 1914. "Bill Whitney always knows you" suggests one of the qualifications most needed in political life, and in this case the reverse of the motto was also true, since practically every responsible citizen of Lorain County knows Bill Whitney. The citizens of Elyria knew him on account of his fourteen years of capable and efficient service on the police force, and the people of the county at large are now becoming well acquainted with his admirable management of the office of sheriff. Sheriff Whitney is by no means a passive factor in the civic life of his home county. His name everywhere suggests the character of an upright citizen, and he has been a vigorous force in behalf of clean politics, and like his father is strongly opposed to the domination of the saloon element.
William Whitney was born in Camden, Lorain County, Ohio, within seven miles of the University Town of Oberlin, May 13, 1874. His parents are Thomas and Philena (Johnson) Whitney. His father was born at Kipton in Lorain County and the mother was born at Painesville in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Grandfather William Whitney came to Ohio from England, and was one of the early day settlers of Lorain County. The maternal grandfather, Solomon Johnson, was for two terms sheriff of Fulton County, Ohio. Thomas Whitney and wife are now living on a small farm which they bought for their declining years south of the Village of Kipton. At one time Thomas owned 800 acres of land in Lorain County, including the site of the present Village of Kipton. During the Civil war he served from the beginning to the end of hostilities, as a private in the Forty-third Ohio Regiment. He is a man of exemplary personal habits, never drinks and never has. and has proved a decided influence in his community in behalf of permanent restrictions upon the liquor traffic. He attends the Disciples Church of which he is a regular member. In the family were six children, two of whom died in infancy, and there are two daughters and two sons still living: Anna, Mrs. Claud Jenkins of Berlin Heights, Ohio; William; Hattie, wife of B. A. Perkins of Elyria; and George, who is a farmer and has eighty acres adjoining his father's place near the Village of Kipton. All the children were born in Lorain County, and attended the public schools of Camden.
Sheriff Whitney's vigorous personality and ability are reflections from his rugged and thorough experience and training as a young man. He lived at home on the farm, worked in the fields and attended school until the age of twenty, and after his marriage moved to Oberlin, where for a little more than a year he was foreman in the lumber yards of George Persons. He then came to Elyria and found work under the superintendent of streets. At the same time he put in an application for a place on the Elyria police force. It was the custom then for the members of the city council to vote upon such applications, and a majority was required for the employment of any applicant. When Mr. Whitney was taken on to the force, he received a unanimous verdict from the councilmen and thereafter continued a member of the police force of Elyria fourteen years, and throughout that time, at each recurring spring election, when the council formally voted upon the police force, he received an endorsement from every member of the council. That is a record of confidence which is well deserved and of which Sheriff Whitney is properly proud. For three years he was a patrolman, and three years a police detective, and was then made captain and chief. He continued chief of police until 1911, when a change in administration occurred, the democratic mayor removing most of the republicans from the municipal offices and substituting democrats in their stead. In the meantime Mr. Whitney had already determined to become a candidate for the office of county sheriff, and as his plans were already, well under way he left the position of chief of police without regret.
During the primaries Mr. Whitney was one of thirteen candidates for the nomination for sheriff, and gained the nomination by about 1,300 votes more than his nearest opponent. In the election he was chosen by over 3,800 votes in majority of those received by the democrat progressive candidate. He was regularly installed in the office of sheriff on January 4, 1915, for a term of two years.
While Mr. Whitney is new in the office of sheriff he has already shown a vigor of administration which has proved gratifying to his many supporters and is an earnest of a strong and sufficient force for law and order in Lorain County. He had been in office about four months when he discovered nine automobiles that had been stolen by a clique of Cleveland automobile thieves operating in Lorain and other counties. At the present writing an automobile case is being tried before the local courts of the circuit and is attracting wide attention not only in Ohio but in other states. Several convictions have been pronounced upon the members of the gang and they were sentenced to prison. This is an organization which has worked with a great deal of cleverness in stealing and disposing of automobiles. They have made a practice of stealing cars in first class condition, hurrying them to a plant in Cleveland, where the cars are made over and so completely changed in all ordinary identification marks that the original owners from whom they were stolen could by no possibility establish proofs fitting their original machines. The remade cars are sold and the profits divided among those interested in the steal.
Sheriff Whitney is a man thoroughly honest and competent in his official duties, and is moreover a gentleman and has hosts of friends. He is affiliated with Harlan P. Chapman Post of the Sons of Veterans at Elyria, with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He also belongs to the Elyria Chamber of Commerce and in politics is a republican.
Last but not least there should be mentioned another important factor in the career of Sheriff Whitney. This was his marriage to Miss Mary Dunkle of Wellington, Lorain County. They were married at Elyria. Her father, Frank Dunkle, was a soldier in the Civil war on the Union side, and lived for many years at Wellington, where he died in 1913. Mrs. Whitney was only seven years of age when she lost her mother. Mrs. Whitney was born in Pennsylvania, was educated at Lattisburg, Wayne county, Ohio, where her parents lived during her girlhood, and since her marriage has proved herself an excellent homemaker and a devoted mother to their only daughter, Reva Mae Whitney, who was born in Elvria, received her education in that city, was married July 22, 1915, to Hugh McCray, of Oberlin, Ohio.
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