Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography

Whitney, Henry Clay, lawyer, state senator, author, was born Feb. 23, 1831, in Detroit, Maine. He was an intimate friend of Lincoln from 1854 until his death; and in 1861-65 was paymaster in the United States army. In 1871-72 he was state senator of Kansas. He is the author of Life on the Circuit with Lincoln; Marriage and Divorce; and also many essays on Lincoln. He died Feb. 27, 1905, in Salem Mass.