WI BIO - Winnebago Co - WHITTAKER, George

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1166

George WHITTAKER, of the firm of C. Heim & Company, marble dealers, was born 
in Scotland on 08 September 1843, and emigrated to America in 1848, with his 
parents, and settled in Paterson [Passaic County], New Jersey, where they 
lived one year. Then moved to Milwaukee [Milwaukee County], Wisconsin, and 
lived there until 1862, and there George learned a portion of his trade.

George WHITTAKER enlisted in Company F, 24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
and served during the [Civil] War, and was engaged in the battles of 
Perrysville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Peach Tree 
Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain and 
all the principal battles in that vicinity. He was mustered out at 
Nashville, Tennessee in June 1865.

George WHITTAKER then returned to Milwaukee and engaged in marble cutting one 
year, then went to Chicago, Illinois, and followed his trade until 1870, and 
then worked at his trade for three months in New York City. George WHITTAKER 
then went to Boston [Suffolk County], Massachusetts, and worked at his trade 
for five years, and then returned to Milwaukee and worked at his trade for 
three years. He then kept a summer resort until 13 October 1880, when he 
moved to Oshkosh [Winnebago County], Wisconsin, and engaged in the marble 
business.

In May 1875 George WHITTAKER was married in Chicago [Cook County], Illinois, 
to Miss Eliza DAILY, who was born in Milwaukee [Milwaukee County], Wisconsin. 
George and Eliza (DAILY) WHITTAKER have three children: Dorrit, Nellie, and 
Charles.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly