WI BIO - Green Lake Co - WHITNEY, George

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 364

George WHITNEY, jeweler, barber, restaurant, ventriloquist, magician, 
lecturer on spiritual manifestations (exposing the tricks of the Davenport 
brothers, Slade and others), of Darford [Dartford, Green Lake County, 
Wisconsin; on Green Lake], was born 02 April 1835 in Springfield, Coos 
County, New Hampshire, son of Samuel B. and Deborah (MANSEL) WHITNEY. Samuel 
B. was a Baptist minister, and preached from his eighteenth year up to the 
time of his death, at forty-five years of age. Deborah is still living, in 
Iowa, aged eighty-seven years. [Text published in 1881, thus Deborah 
(MANSEL) WHITNEY was born about 1794.] Mr. [George] WHITNEY came to 
Wisconsin in 1850, and settled in Waushara County, and two years later moved 
to Mayville, Dodge County, then to Marquette and Kingston, and engaged in 
lumbering.

On 22 September 1855 he [George WHITNEY] married Josephine HALVENSTOT [a 
maiden name?], of Kingston [Green Lake County, Wisconsin], who died at 
Marquette [Green Lake County, Wisconsin] in 1863, leaving two children: one 
who died young, and Charles E., who was born 22 April 1857, is single and 
living at Marquette [Green Lake County]. Mr. [George] WHITNEY transferred 
his business interests for a short time to Iowa, and in [George WHITNEY] 1864 
married Jane PARKER, of Marquette [Green Lake County, Wisconsin], by whom he 
has two children: Ellah, born 22 July 1869; and Clarence, born 28 April 
1873. Mr. [George] WHITNEY formerly traveled with Professors ANDERSON and 
SAND, and is an expert in the various professions mentioned. He is a Liberal 
Republican and temperance man.

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