Jonathan Whipple

1794 - 1875  (80 years)

• Name	Jonathan Whipple
  Birth	14 Aug 1794	Groton, New London, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Feb 1875
  Person ID	I10250	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	13 May 2012

  
  

  Father	Samuel Stillman Whipple,   b. 28 Nov 1766, Groton, New London, Connecticut d. 23 Mar 1843 (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Hepzibah Gates,   b. 24 Dec 1765, Preston, New London, Connecticut d. 3 Nov 1822, Groton, New London, Connecticut (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	7 Mar 1788
  Family ID	F6022	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Crouch,   b. 25 Jun 1798, Ledyard, New London, Connecticut d. 26 Nov 1883 (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	3 Sep 1815
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Whipple,   b. 2 Nov 1816, Ledyard, New London, Connecticut d. 2 Sep 1881, Ledyard, New London, Connecticut (Age 64 years) + 2. Mary Whipple,   b. 15 Jun 1818   d. 7 Oct 1897 (Age 79 years) + 3. Jonathan Crouch Whipple, Jr.,   b. 3 Apr 1821, Ledyard, New London, Connecticut d. 13 Apr 1885, , , California (Age 64 years)   4. Abby Whipple,   b. 16 May 1823, of, Ledyard, New London, Connecticut d. 3 Jan 1859 (Age 35 years) + 5. Enoch Whipple,   b. 15 Mar 1825, , , Connecticut d. 7 Oct 1897 (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F6029	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 14 Aug 1794 - Groton, New London, Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Henry E. Whipple, A Brief History of the Whipple Families Who Settled in Rhode Island (Providence: A. Crawford Greene, 1873), p. 58. !SOURCE: Email from R. Gilebarto to Weldon Whipple, 23 Feb and 14 Mar 1998. !BIOGRAPHY: "Organizer and first president of the Connecticut Peace Society. ... At the first annual meeting there were in attendance a handful of people, at the second annual meeting there were in attendance 5,000 people. Meetings were held on the banks of the Mystic River and would last days. These meetings went well into the turn of the [20th] century, as my grandmother remembered attending them as a young woman. ... Jonathan also had a deaf son named Enoch that he taught to speak and read lips. Jonathan loved learning and was self educated, but found his own system to teach Enoch, who was born deaf, how to speak. The United States had not yet established any methods of teaching the deaf to speak, and Enoch was considered a wonderment. [Jonathan's efforts led to] the Whipple School for the Deaf; ... others in this particular family opened schools for or worked as teachers for the deaf. ... Jonathan was a gentle and beloved man that served as inspiration to many." --R. Gilebarto