Bishop Henry B. Whipple, Evangeline (Marrs) Whipple

Evangeline Marrs—2nd Wife of Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple

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Neil Whipple recently submitted a note about the second wife of Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (the first Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota). See his page on the Whipple One-Name Study site.

A great deal of information has been published about her relationship with Rose Cleveland, sister of U.S. President Grover Cleveland:

Web Site

For starters, check out the article published on MNopedia, an online encyclopedia dedicated to Minnesota history… https://www.mnopedia.org/person/whipple-evangeline-marrs-simpson-1857-1930 

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Nathan Whipple

Nathan Whipples in Upstate New York, about 1800

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Neil Whipple recently submitted a document to the Whipple One-Name Study (WONS) that gives information about three individuals named Nathan Whipple who lived in Upstate New York between the years 1770 through 1850. Those who have relatives named Nathan might want to study his document. Read his document on the Whipple One-Name Study web site.

The three Nathans are in the WONS database

During the next few weeks WONS database will be changed to reflect the information in Neil’s document.

Thank you, Neil, for your investigation!

Whipple Road

Another Bay Area Whipple Exit

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Two years ago, the post entitled “Who Is Willard Whipple?” referred to the Whipple Avenue exit on U.S. Highway 101 south of San Francisco, on the west side of San Francisco Bay. Numbered 409, the led to Redwood City in San Mateo County.

Further study found another Whipple exit, across San Francisco Bay from Whipple Avenue. On the east side of the Bay, Interstate 880’s Whipple Road exit 24 leads to Union City.

Union City exit to Whipple Road on I-880

Because of its proximity to Redwood City (across the Bay), I initially imagined that Whipple Road might have been named after Willard Whipple.
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Ipswich Whipples, John Adams Whipple, Photographers

John Adams Whipple, Photographic Pioneer

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I was recently made aware of a page at the Historic Camera web site about John Adams Whipple (1822-1891) who pioneered photography in America during the 19th Century. He was the “first in the United States to take up the manufacture of chemicals that were used in the daguerreotype process.” He became the “most successful portrait photographer in Boston, with buildings and historical monuments his specialty.”

We hope you enjoy reading about John.

 

DNA, Fatherhood, Parentage

Who’s your daddy? Don’t ask a DNA test

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Mater certissima est – the mother is always certain.

The Facebook group of the Guild of One-Name Studies posted a link to an article by Nara Milanich entitled “Who’s your daddy? Don’t ask a DNA test.” It raises interesting questions about parentage. What is a father? Is biology the only way of determining who someone’s father is?

How many of the fathers listed in the Whipple One-Name Study database (https://whipple.one-name.net/tng) are biological?

What do you think? Take a look at https://bigthink.com/health/fathers-dna-test/

 

Whipple Home School for the Deaf

Alexander Graham Bell and the Whipples of Mystic, Connecticut

One of the Whipple Website’s longtime supporters recently sent a link to a fascinating article that appeared on May 5, 2021, in The Day, a newspaper published in New London, Connecticut. Entitled “Writing on Water: What Alexander Graham Bell knew about the Mystic Oral School,” it tells of what was originally called the Whipple Home School for the Deaf in Mystic, Connecticut.
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Blaine Whipple, Bocking, Christmas

A Whipple Christmas in 1606

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© By Blaine Whipple

By the time of Amy‘s birth in 1606, the Matthew Whipple, Sr. family should have been able to celebrate Christmas in grand style. The citizens of Bocking and Braintree joyously celebrated the birth of Jesus. The inns, taverns, and alehouses were wreathed with Christmas greenery and within those warm, noisy, crowded places, good beer and ale and all the best wines were served. All houses from leading citizens to the lowly rat-catcher were open to hospitality. Few if any went hungry, including prisoners who received baskets of good things to eat and drink.
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Commodore Abraham Whipple

Commodore Whipple vs. the Ohio River

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One of my relatives recently recommended a new book by David McCullough entitled The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal. (See the book at Amazon.com.)

On page 136 of the book, the author describes the difficulties of navigating the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi River. The “Falls” or “Rapids” at Louisville, Kentucky, were a dangerous two-mile stretch of whitewater rapids where the water level cascaded downward, ending up 26 feet lower. Experienced pilots were able to routinely guide smaller craft safely through the Falls.
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Chilean Whipples, John William Whipple

Who Is John William Whipple, M.D., of Chile?

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Twenty-two years ago in March 1997 (barely two months after the whipple.org domain was “purchased,” and before the Whipple Website existed), I received an email from Oscar Eduardo Whipple Ascui of Chile, telling of his ancestor John William Whipple, who emigrated from the U.S. to Chile in “about 1850.” I added John to my PAF database that I eventually used to create what is now the Whipple Database. A few years later he was among the initial Whipples to end up on the newly created Disconnected Whipples page. He has remained in the database unchanged since March 1997—until today.
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Bocking, Ipswich Whipples

Our Visit to St. Mary’s Church, Bocking, England

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By Weldon Whipple
As I was going through some old photos yesterday, I found a few that I took while visiting my daughter in England in August 2005. At the time I had realized that I am not a descendant of the Bocking/Ipswich Whipples, so I wasn’t particularly motivated to go see Bocking. Having a spare day, we decided to look for Bocking and St. Mary’s Church. (I am the Whipple Website’s Webmaster, after all, and I had already decided to accept all Whipples in the Whipple Genweb.)
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Captain John, Debrett Ancestry Research, Great Waltham, John Whaples

Seeking the Origins of Captain John Whipple of Dorchester MA/Providence RI

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SUMMARY: This post explores the possibility that young John Whipple of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and (later) Providence, Rhode Island, might be the same person as John Whaple or Whaples, who was baptized on 13 Dec 1618 at St. Mary and St. Lawrence Church in Great Waltham, Essex, England. (Great Waltham is about 10 miles — a 21-minute drive by car — from Bocking, Essex, England.)

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Amiel Weeks Whipple 1817-1863

Battery Amiel Whipple on Fort Standish, Lovell’s Island, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

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Recently Mark Whipple sent an email with two links to pages about locations in Boston Harbor. One of the links describes Battery Amiel Whipple, located on Lovell’s Island. (See Amiel’s page in the Whipple Website for more information about Major General Amiel Weeks Whipple. He died from wounds received May 4, 1873 at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia.)
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British Whipples, Ipswich Whipples

Thomas Whipple of Bishops Stortford Mentioned by Blaine Whipple

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Today as I was trying to answer an email question, I stumbled (again) across Appendix One (pp. 958-1015) in the first volume of Blaine Whipple’s monumental 4-volume work entitled 15 Generations of Whipples: Descendants of Matthew Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Abt 1590-1647 (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9801022-0-8 [volume 1 only]; ISBN 978-09801022-4-6 [4-volume set]).  While thumbing through its pages, page 969 caught my eye:
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Clara Whipple

Update on Clara Whipple, Silent Film Actress

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We have more clues about Clara Whipple, the silent film actress blogged about on June 29. The following might help identify her:

Ancestry.com’s Motion Picture Studios Directory has two entries about the career of Clara Brimmer Whipple, born in Missouri, who attended school in a convent in Germany and finished her education in Switzerland.

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A.B.C. Whipple, Ipswich Whipples, World War II

A.B.C. Whipple, 1918-2013

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Addison Beecher Colvin “Cal” Whipple, war correspondent who became a Washington reporter for Life magazine in 1943, died on St. Patrick’s Day. Cal was responsible for publishing a controversial “Picture of the Week” in Life in 1943, next to an editorial about the reality of World War II. “War Bond sales skyrocketed; and the [government’s] censorship rule was abolished.”
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Nova Scotia Birth, Marriage and Death Records Online

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It’s been over a month since Blaine Whipple informed me that Nova Scotia has put their birth, marriage and death (BMD) records online. Many Whipples migrated to the Maritime Provinces during America’s colonial period. If your relatives lived in Nova Scotia, check out Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics (https://novascotiagenealogy.com/).
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Captain John, North Burial Ground in Providence, Sarah Whipple

Locating Captain John and Sarah’s gravestones in Providence’s North Burial Ground

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Two or three weeks ago my brother phoned me from the North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island. He was visiting family members nearby and wanted to visit the gravestones of our 8th great grandparents, Captain John and Sarah Whipple. I was driving when he phoned, so I pulled over and tried to help him.
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Frank Whipple: Modern British Hero

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Frank Whipple, East [London] End legend, passed away on Wednesday, August 24, 2011, at the age of 103. He died at the Royal London hospital. He was known in East London as a “campaigner, football fanatic and devoted family man.” He was admired as the the U.K.’s oldest carer [caregiver] because of his dedication in taking care of his daughter Peggy, “born with severe special needs.” Read the entire article in the East London Advertiser.
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J. Reed Whipple, New Boston (NH) Historical Society

Piggeries, Henneries, and J. R. Whipple’s Boston Hotels

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Seven or more years ago, Joanne Lahr-Kreischer introduced me to J. Reed Whipple (full name: Joseph Reed Whipple) when she submitted “J. Reed Whipple and Boston Hotels” to the Whipple Website. Born in New Boston, New Hampshire, Reed remained connected with his roots, even after becoming a noted Boston hotelier.
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Amiel Weeks Whipple 1817-1863, Railroads, Route 66

Amiel Weeks Whipple, Transcontinental Railroads & Route 66

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While checking Facebook on my iPhone, I ran across an article published as part of Arizona’s celebration of its statehood centennial this year: Arizona Centennial: The Making of a State – Whipple blazed route for transcontinental railroad. (Recall that he was mortally wounded during the U.S. Civil War while defending Washington, D.C. If you’ve spent much time on the Whipple Website, you will also know that Fort Myer–now in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia–was named Fort Whipple from the 1860s until 1881, in his honor.)
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Lucian Adolphus Whipple Jr., World War II

Lucian Whipple’s World War II Experiences Flying over Germany

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Bennett Whipple of Big Canoe, GA, forwarded me this account of his brother Lucian’s “experiences flying over Germany during World War II as a waist gunner on a B-24 from the 448th Group Air Base at Seething, England.” (The letter came to Bennett via email dated July 26, 2000.)
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Georgia Whipples, Lucian Adolphus Whipple Sr.

Birthday Wishes to Lucian Adolphus Whipple Sr., 1878-1979

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Today Lucian Adolphus Whipple Sr. would have been 132 years old, as I was reminded when I received a note this morning from his descendant, Bennett Whipple. Lucian lived to be nearly 101 years of age. He is in the Whipple Database, where you can see a photo at age 100. This photo is of Lucian in his younger days.
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Babette Whipple 1918-2009, Fred Whipple

Babette Samelson Whipple Dies at 91

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The Harvard University Gazette reports that Babette (Samelson) Whipple, former psychology research at Massachusetts General Hospital and wife of the late Harvard astronomer Fred Lawrence Whipple, died on 18 Dec 2009, after a short illness. A resident of Belmont, Massachusetts, she was 91 years of age. (Her husband died in 2004.)
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Whipple Cave

Whipple Cave, Nevada

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Blaine Whipple reports a blogger who has chronicled his experiences at Whipple Cave in the Egan Mountains of Nevada. I haven’t had time to research the cave, but I can’t help but wonder if the cave’s name might have something to do with Amiel Weeks Whipple, the military engineer and explorer who (among other things) led an 1853 expedition in search for a railroad route near the 35th parallel of latitude to the Pacific Ocean.
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Mary Whipple, Women's Eight rowing

Mary Whipple Leads Women Rowers to Gold in Beijing

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I watched it yesterday on TV and have received numerous phone calls and emails reporting the event, so we probably ought to mention it on the Whipple Website’s blog.
U.S. Women’s eight rowing team received a gold medal yesterday at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The team’s coxswain was Mary Whipple of Orangevale, California.
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Wayne Whipple, Whipple Flag

Flag Day

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When I realized that today is Flag Day (in the U.S.), I immediately thought of Wayne Whipple and his “Whipple Flag.” Blaine Whipple wrote an article on the Whipple Flag some nine years ago. In 1912 (when the Whipple Flag was conceived), federal law allowed more flexibility in flag design. Those of us born after the Flag Code was passed by Congress in 1942 won’t remember the Whipple Flag. (From 1942 until Alaska and Hawaii joined the union, the official arrangement of the 48 stars was a 6 x 8 grid.)
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