Whitney, Henry Clay

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Henry Clay Whitney
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    Family
    Sarah Anna Snyder (wife)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Writer or Artist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Whig
    Republican
    Government
    Lincoln Administration (1861-65)
    State legislature

    Henry Clay Whitney (Leonard, 1899)

    Reference
    WHITNEY, Henry Clay, lawyer; b. Detroit, Me., Feb. 23, 1831; ed. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Augusta Coll., Ky. and Farmers Coll., Ohio; m. Sarah Anna Snyder, Urbana, Ill.; intimate friend of Lincoln from 1854 until his death; paymaster, U. S. A., 1861-5; State senator, Kansas, 1871-2; att’y for Ill. Cent. R. R., 1855-61; for Florida Southern R. R., 1881-2. Author: Life on the Circuit with Lincoln; Marriage and Divorce; also many essays on Lincoln. Residence: 164 Bellingham Av., Beachmont, Revere, Mass. Office: 27 Doane St., Boston.
    John W. Leonard, ed., Who’s Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Living Men and Women of the United States, 1899-1900 (Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Co., 1899), 790.

    Henry Clay Whitney (Herringshaw, 1914)

    Reference
    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.
    Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography (Chicago: American Publishers’ Association, 1914), 5: 681.
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