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Herbert Sydney Whipple (Major)

BIRTH: 16 Jul 1861, Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania
DEATH: 13 Jun 1923, New York City, New York
BURIAL: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington, Virginia
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TITLE: Major

Father: William Denison Whipple (2 Aug 1826 - 1 Apr 1902)
Mother: Caroline Mary Cooke (26 Jun 1834 - 26 Apr 1896)

Family 1:

MARRIAGE: ABT 1894

                                                                                              _Samuel Whipple _____+
                                                                                             | (1702 - 1775) m 1726
                                                                        _Ezra Whipple _______|_Bethia Patch _______
                                                                       | (1741 - 1829) m 1761  (1700 - 1774)       
                                                  _Jeremiah Whipple ___|
                                                 | (1766 - 1840) m 1789|
                                                 |                     |                      _Thomas Dow _________
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                                                 |                     |_Lydia Dow __________|_Mary _______________
                                                 |                       (1732 - 1779) m 1761                      
                            _Jeremiah Whipple ___|
                           | (1800 - 1869) m 1823|
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                           |                     |                      _Samuel Hull ________|_____________________
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                           |                     |_Eunice Emma Hull ___|
                           |                       (1765 - 1820) m 1789|
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                           |                                           |_Eunice Cook ________|_____________________
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 _William Denison Whipple _|
| (1826 - 1902) m 1854     |
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|                          |                      _William Murdock ____|
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|                          |                     |                     |_Jerusha Lay ________|_Mary Lewis _________
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|                          |_Jerusha Murdock ____|
|                            (1802 - 1878) m 1823|
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|--Herbert Sydney Whipple 
|  (1861 - 1923)
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|                           _David Cooke ________|
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|_Caroline Mary Cooke _____|
  (1834 - 1896) m 1854     |
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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.

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

9/5/1860 Census, Fort Defiance, Bernalillo, NM, p.189
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
1900 Census, Military and Naval, Pinar del Rio Headquarters, Havana, Cuba, p.292
- Whipple, Herbert S., 1st Lt., {3557} 37 b. PA July 1862, mar. 6 yrs. {abt 1894}, father b. NY, mother b. PA

!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 7 Jul 2006. Cites the New York Times: "Herbert Sydney Whipple (Major) {3557} was born in Norristown, PA and died at his home in New York City, NY. (NYTimes 6/14/1923, 19)"

Gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Courtesy of Janet L. Greentree

Courtesy of Ron Williams
Sue Greenhagen has posted William Denison Whipple's New York Times obituary on the Web.

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