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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