Whiting, Newell A.

WHITING, CRINER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 3/13/2007 at 23:58:32

Source: History of Western Iowa, 1882
Author: Western Publishing Company

N. A. Whiting, dealer in general hardware, was born in N. Y., in 1823; lived on
a farm until eighteen years of age; then learned carriage making, in which
business he was engaged for fifteen years in 0. and Ala. He came to Onawa. Ia.,
in 1857, and the following year engaged in his present business. He was married
in 1853, and has three children—Eva, Charles and Estella. Chas. is engaged in
the banking business at Mapleton, Ia

~Transcriber: Alice Warner, State File Manager, Iowa USGenWeb Archives Project
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Newell A. Whiting, the leading hardware dealer of Onawa, and one of its most prominent and wealthy citizens, is one of the early pioneers of Monona County. He came here in 1856 on account of the interest which he had in some seven thousand acres of land held by him and his brother Charles E. After remaining a short time he returned to Alabama, but the next year came back to Monona County arriving in this place April 24, 1857. He says that upon that day there was snow upon the bluffs on either side of the river, and that the spring was so backward that there was no feed for the stock until May, but they had an abundant crop that year. He tried farming for about a year, but finding out that that calling was not his forte, he came to Onawa and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued about four years. After that he did but little, except looking after his landed interests until January 1, 1868, when in company with Stephen Gerrard he established his present hardware business. After the death of his parents he purchased the latter’s interest, and since that date has carried on the business alone, and is the leading merchant in that line, in the village.

Mr. Whiting was born in the town of Butternuts, Otsego County, N. Y., March 4, 1823, and is a son of Charles and Lorinda (Eveleth) Whiting, both of whom were natives of Princeton, Worcester County, Mass. When our subject was about a year old, his parents removed to Wayne County, N.Y., and in 1837 to Lake County, Ohio, and in the latter he grew to manhood, receiving his education in the district schools, at the Western Reserve Seminary, at Kirkland and at Oberlin, Ohio. After teaching school for about a year, in 1845, Mr. Whiting removed to New Market, Madison County, Ala., where his brother, Charles E., was then living, and there engaged in wagon-making and in the mercantile business with his brother, and in that village remained until 1855. In 1853 Mr. Whiting came to Iowa and then purchased eleven hundred acres of land near Marengo, Iowa County, which he afterward sold, preferring in invest his money in land in Monona County. In company with his brother, Charles E., in the fall of 1856 he erected a saw mill on section 20, Franklin Township, the machinery for which was brought up the river on boats. They operated this latter until October 1857. The father of our subject died in 1872, in Ohio, where the mother is still living, aged ninety years.

Mr. Whiting was united in marriage April 9, 1851, to Miss Eliza Criner, a native of Madison County, Ala., who was born March 11, 1833, and is the parents of three children – Eva M., Charles I., and Estella.

Source: History of Monona County, Iowa 1890
Chicago National Pub. Co.
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The Whiting Family
The Whiting family name has been prominent in the agricultural and commercial development of Monona County since 1855 when brothers Charles E., and Newell A. Whiting invested in farm lands in the Whiting vicinity. Concluding the wagon making business near Huntsville, Alabama, the families in 1857 established residence locally. Charles E. developed the Whiting Settlement engaging in farming while Newell A. pioneered a hardware business in Onawa.
Newell A and Eliza Whiting were the parents of Charles I and Eva (Whiting) Pike. Charles I Whiting, after attending business school in Des Moines set out to expand the family business into new areas. Impressed with the potential of the New Mapleton community, he with his uncle Baxter in the fall of 1877 built a two story building in Mapleton to house the hardware establishing of Whiting & Company, and later that of the Mapleton Bank. Charles I. Whiting continued as president of the Bank for the remainder of his lifetime.
In 1879 Charles I, married Flora E. Giddings, daughter of James D. and Mary Giddings of Onawa. To this union were born, Mary, Flora and Charles G. Whiting. Following his graduation from the University of Iowa Law School Charles G. married Agnes Hester, daughter of the Wm. Hesters of DesMoines, and became associated with his father in the Mapleton Bank. Born to Charles G. and Agnes were Flora (Whiting) Baker and James G. Following a period of service with the Army Air Corps James G. Whiting with his bride Jean Stewart (Wilson) purchased a home in Mapleton where James gained employment with the Mapleton Bank.
James and Jean raised three children, Sue Hoyt, James Thomas and Craig William. Charles R md Sue Ragan and live with their daughters Lisa Merideth and Laura Jean in Elk River, Minnesota. Craig is married to Julie (Ponath) residing with their daughter Elizabeth in Lakeshore Village, Minnesota. James T. and his wife Diane (Peld) and the two boys, Christopher Rodney and Spencer Charles maintain their home in Hudson, Wisconsin.
Charles G. Whiting continues his duties as Chairman of the Board of the Mapleton Trust & Savings Bank, James G. of Mapleton and Lakeshore Village, Minn. Continues as President of the institution. Craig W. is a vice president of the Nisswa State Bank of Nisswa, Minn. and James T. is an officer with the Minnesota Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of the Twin Cities, Minnesota.

Submitted by James G. Whiting

Source: History of Monona County, Iowa 1982
Taylor Pub. Co.
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