WHITNEY, A. J.

WHITNEY, BLODGETT, KELLEY

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/23/2019 at 20:28:42

MONTROSE TOWNSHIP

WHITNEY, A. J., contractor, San dusky ; was born in Massachusetts in 1828 ; came to Burlington, Iowa, in 1856 ; while there he was engaged as locomotive engineer on the B. & M. Railroad ; in 1860, he removed to Keokuk ; he was then, for some time, engineer on the D. V. road, and afterward foreman of the shops, and master , mechanic on the D. V. road; in 1865, he returned to Burlington, and took charge of the Burlington Foundry and Machine-shops ; went to Green Bay, Wis., and engaged in the foundry business ; he returned to Burlington in the spring of 1869 ; he came to his present location in 1870, and became superintendent of George Williams' contract on the Des Moines Rapids Canal ; has been employed on contracts on Upper and Lower Mississippi since 1870. He married in 1851, Lucretia Blodgett, a native of Ohio ; she died in 1864 ; he married the spring of 1867, Miss Kate Kelley, a native of Canada ; Mr. Whitney has four children by first marriage—Frank, Marietta, Charles and Henry ; has two by second marriage - Wilber and Arthur.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879