WILLIAM WHITING
Whiting, William
(1841-1911) Father of William Fairfield Whiting. A Representative from Massachusetts; born in Dudley, Worcester
County, Mass., May 24, 1841; attended the public schools; was graduated from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.;
engaged in the manufacture of paper in Holyoke, Mass., in 1865; member of the State senate in 1873; city treasurer
of Holyoke in 1876 and 1877; mayor of Holyoke in 1878 and 1879; delegate to the Republican National Convention in
1876 and 1896; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4,
1883-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination in 1888; commissioner to the World’s Exposition in Paris,
France, in 1900; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; died in Holyoke, Hampden County, Mass., January 9, 1911;
interment in Forestdale Cemetery.
Mother: Elizabeth [Whiting]
Father: William B. Whiting
Spouse: Annie M [Whiting] b. abt 1841 Massachusetts
Children:
William Fairfield Whiting b. abt 1865 Massachusetts
Samuel Raynor whiting b. abt 1867 Massachusetts
Sources:
United States Federal Census The Political Graveyard
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