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- !SOURCE: Email from Winnifred Whipple (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 16 Dec 2000, citing her family bible. Of Little Rock, Arkansas.
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Silas Olmstead," email from B. Huckins to Weldon Whipple, 24 Feb 2007. Of Warehouse Point, Hartford, Connecticut.
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Silas Olmstead," email from B. Huckins to Weldon Whipple, 24 Feb 2007. Cites/notes the following:- 1880 census Little Rock AR:
- Wm G. Whipple ae 44, lawyer, b. CT, father b. ? mother b. ?
- Mary S. 28, wife, b AR, parents born VT
- Duran 8 son
- 1910 Pulaski, Little Rock AR:
- William G. Whipple 73, married twice, mar. 39 yrs., father b. CT, mother b. MA
- Mary D. wife 60 mar. 1, m. 39 yrs.
!SOURCE: Email from Phillip McMath (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 12 Oct 2011. Adds burial date and place, citing cemetery records.
!SOURCE: Phillip H. McMath, "History? Legend? Symbol?: The Story of David O. Dodd," The Pulaski County Historical Review, vol. 61, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 107-116. Footnote on p. 115 reads:U.S. Census of 1915. Mary Dodge married Col. William George Whipple (1834-1914) in 1870. He was originally from Connecticut; was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan College, where he studied classics and the law; he came to Arkansas after the Civil War after brief service in the Union army, and was elected mayor of Little Rock (1887-91). He was appointed US Attorney E. District (1900-1913). Durand Whipple (1871-1936), their only child, a Little Rock lawyer, was killed in a streetcar accident on Main and 7th. During World War I he served as a JAG officer on General John Pershing's staff. All three are buried at Oakland Cemetery, Little Rock.
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