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William Denison Whipple (Major General)

BIRTH: 2 Aug 1826, Nelson, Madison, New York
DEATH: 1 Apr 1902, New York City, New York
BURIAL: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington, Virginia
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TITLE: Major General

Father: Jeremiah Whipple (1 Oct 1800 - 29 Nov 1869)
Mother: Jerusha Murdock (ABT 1802 - 5 Apr 1878)

Family 1: Caroline Mary Cooke (26 Jun 1834 - 26 Apr 1896)

MARRIAGE: 19 Dec 1854, New York City, New York

+Marion Denison Whipple (15 Nov 1857 - 29 Nov 1943)
Walter C. Whipple (ABT Apr 1860 - 8 Jun 1885)
Herbert Sydney Whipple (16 Jul 1861 - 13 Jun 1923)

                                                                                         _Cyprian Whipple ____+
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                                                                   _Samuel Whipple _____|_Dorothy Simonds ____
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                                             _Ezra Whipple _______|
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                                            |                     |_Bethia Patch _______|_Sarah Balch ________
                                            |                       (1700 - 1774) m 1726                      
                       _Jeremiah Whipple ___|
                      | (1766 - 1840) m 1789|
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                      |                     |_Lydia Dow __________|
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 _Jeremiah Whipple ___|
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|                     |_Eunice Emma Hull ___|
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|                                           |_Eunice Cook ________|
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|--William Denison Whipple 
|  (1826 - 1902)
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|                                            _William Murdock ____|
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|                      _William Murdock ____|
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|                     |                                           |_Mary Lewis _________|_____________________
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|_Jerusha Murdock ____|
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                      |_Saba Dennison ______|
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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, Oct. 1965), p. 23-24. From the ancestry of Major General William Denison Whipple, which appeared in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 98, 1944, p. 181.

!MILITARY: Chief of Staff in the Army of Cumberland in the Civil War, and later on the staffs of Generals Sherman and Sheridan. --H.B. Whipple

!SOURCE: _The National Cyclopedia of American Biography_, vol. 4 (New Nork: J.T. White, 1897), p. 339.

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 12 Nov 2005. Cites the following:

9/5/1860 Census, Fort Defiance, Bernalillo, NM, p.189
- Whipple, Lt. W. D., {3555} 33, soldier, b. NY
- Whipple, Caroline M. {3556} 25 b. PA
- Whipple Maria D., 3 b. PA {abt 1857}
- Whipple, Walter {74998} b. 4/12 b. NM {abt April 1860}
1880 Census, Chicago, Cook, IL p.492
- Whipple, William D. {3555} 52, Gen. U.S. Army, b. NY, parents b. NY
- Whipple, Caroline M. {3556} 44, b. PA, parents b. MA
- Whipple, Marion D. 31 b. PA
- Whipple, Walter C. {74998} 19 b. NM
- Whipple, Herbert S. {3557} 18 b. PA

!SOURCE: Email from Michael Whipple (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 12 Dec 2006. Cites http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Marriage/AZ/W/W.7.html. Gives marriage of Lt. William D. Whipple and Caroline M. Cooke 19 Dec 1854 in New York City.

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