Whipple Database
Database of the Whipple One-Name Study (WONS)
George Hoyt Whipple
1878 - 1976 (97 years)
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Name George Hoyt Whipple Birth 28 Aug 1878 Ashland, Grafton, New Hampshire 
Gender Male Death 1 Feb 1976 Rochester, Monroe, New York Person ID I7598 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 18 Nov 2009
Father Ashley Cooper Whipple, Dr., b. 4 Feb 1852, New London, Merrimack, New Hampshire d. 4 Apr 1880, Ashland, Grafton, New Hampshire (Age 28 years) Mother Frances Anna Hoyt, b. 15 Jun 1857, Ashland, Grafton, New Hampshire d. 1904 (Age 46 years) Marriage 24 Dec 1876 , , New Hampshire Family ID F4327 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Katharine Ball Waring, b. Abt 1885, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Marriage 24 Jun 1914 Children 1. George Hoyt Whipple, Jr., b. 4 May 1917, San Francisco, San Francisco, California + 2. Barbara Whipple, b. 16 Jun 1921, San Francisco, San Francisco, California d. Nov 1989, Buena Vista, Chaffee, Colorado (Age 68 years)Family ID F4331 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Birth - 28 Aug 1878 - Ashland, Grafton, New Hampshire 
Death - 1 Feb 1976 - Rochester, Monroe, New York = Link to Google Earth
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Photos George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976) 
Sign near the birthplace of George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976) 
Birthplace of George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976)
George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976), who received the 1934 Nobel Prize for Medicine, was born in Ashland, New Hampshire, in the home pictured above. The home is now the Whipple House Museum, operated by the Ashland Historical Society, Ashland, NH 03217.
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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, 1965-1969), 2:113, 114.
!HONORS: Received the Nobel Prize in 1934 (jointly with George Minot and William P. Murphey of Harvard) for the discovery that liver is curative in pernicious anemia.
!HONORS: In 1963, received from President John F. Kennedy the Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award.
!HONORS: In 1921 he was at the University of Rochester, New York, as Dean and organizer of the new medical school there.
!RESIDENCES: Rochester, N.Y. (1969)
!SOURCE: Email from Blaine Whipple 2 Feb 1998.
!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), 3:G961-G964.
- !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, 1965-1969), 2:113, 114.