William Whipple

1827 - 1896  (68 years)

• Name	William Whipple
  Birth	26 Oct 1827	Silver Lake, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Feb 1896	Ridgeway, Orleans, New York
  Burial	Boxwood Cemetery, Ridgeway, Orleans, New York
  Person ID	I5092	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	21 May 2021

  
  

  Father	Samuel Whipple,   b. 10 Feb 1798, Duanesburg, Schenectady, New York d. 20 Sep 1858, Clarkson, Monroe, New York (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Phoebe Cleveland,   b. 11 Aug 1796, Duanesburg, Schenectady, New York d. 18 Oct 1878, Clarkson, Monroe, New York (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	29 Oct 1819	Schnectady, Schnectady, New York
  Family ID	F2973	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine M. Watson,   b. 27 Feb 1836, Albion, Orleans, New York d. 8 Sep 1902, Medina, Orleans, New York (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	5 Apr 1858	, San Francisco, California
  Children	+ 1. Watson H. Whipple,   b. 10 Feb 1859, Clarkson, Monroe, New York d. 25 Jul 1916, prob, Medina, Orleans, New York (Age 57 years)   2. Willis Whipple,   b. 24 Dec 1862, Clarkson, Monroe, New York d. 4 Aug 1874, Medina, Orleans, New York (Age 11 years) + 3. Francis Henry Whipple,   b. 28 Sep 1866, Ridgeway, Orleans, New York d. 27 Jul 1935, Royalton, Niagara, New York (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F2977	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 26 Oct 1827 - Silver Lake, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania Marriage - 5 Apr 1858 - , San Francisco, California Death - 18 Feb 1896 - Ridgeway, Orleans, New York Burial - - Boxwood Cemetery, Ridgeway, Orleans, New York  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: A Partial list of the Descendents of Matthew Whipple, the Elder, of Bocking, Essex County, England / Compiled from Divers Sources by Henry Burdette Whipple (High Point, North Carolina, Oct. 1965-1969), 2:25. !SOURCE: Email from email hidden, 27 Dec 1998. !BIRTH: Born "near" Montrose, Pennsylvania. --H.B. Whipple. According to email hidden, "The 1865 N.Y. State census for Ridgeway, Orleans Co., New York indicates that William Whipple is 37 and born in Penn." !SOURCE: "Descendants of David Whipple," emailed by Ward Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 5 Jul 1999. Cites pages of a publication entitled "Families of Western New York," originally published as volume 1 of Genealogical and Family History of Western New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation, by William Richard Cutter (s.l.: s.n., 1911?). !BIOGRAPHY: "William in 1851 joined a company of "gold seekers" and went to California by the Isthmus of Panama route. He does not appear to have spent any time in the mines, but worked in San Francisco at the trade of carpenter, later working on a ranch. In 1858 he returned east, married, and settled on his father's farm in Clarkson, New York. In 1864 he joined with his father-in-law, William H. Watson, and purchased a tract of land about one mile north of Medina, Orleans County, New York, where he resided the remaining [years] of his life." --Ward Whipple !SOURCE: William Richard Cutter, Families of Western New York (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1996), p. 449-50. !SOURCE: Email from Michael Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 12 Dec 2006. Cites "Boxwood Cemetery, Town of Ridgeway, Orleans County, New York" (http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ny/orleans/cemeteries/ridgeway/boxwood/Wbxwd.txt). Confirms birth date, adds day (of month) of death; adds burial place. !SOURCE: Blaine Whipple, 15 Generations of Whipples: Descendants of Matthew Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Abt 1590-1647: An American Story (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2007), 2:G390, 2: G547. Gives birth 6 Oct 1827 (previously entered as 26 Oct 1827) in Silver Lake, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania (previously entered as near Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania). Gives marriage to Catherine M. Watson in San Francisco, California (previously entered as Clarkson, Monroe, New York).