Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

DR. DAVID WHITNEY, retired dentist, Beardstown; was born in 
Franklin County, Mass., Jan 29, 1803, and was educated in 
Conway, his native town. At twenty-two years of age, he 
began the study of medicine, and graduated from the 
Pittsfield College, in 1831. In 1832, he removed to western 
New York, practiced his profession six years, and then 
moved to Indiana, where, his health failing, he 
relinquished medicine partly, and practiced dentistry till 
1856, when he removed to Beardstown, where he has since 
remained, having practiced dentistry for twenty years; 
during the last six years, however, he has retired from 
active practice. In 1826, he married Miss Elizabeth S. 
Granger, of North Hadley, Mass., and seven children were 
born to them, three of whom are dead. Those living are: 
Cornelia, Mrs. Wallsworth, Ellen, Benjamin R., civil 
engineer, David V., physician. For many years Mrs. Whitney 
has made a study of geology and archaeology, and has one of 
the finest collections of fossils and prehistoric 
implements in the State. The Doctor is a Baptist, and Mrs. 
Whitney is a Congregationalist.

Whitney Granger Wallsworth
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Franklin-MA NY IN