_Samuel Whipple _____________+
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_Samuel Whipple _____|_Elizabeth Eddy _____________
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_John Whipple _____________|
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| | _John Safford _______|_Hannah Newman ______________
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| | _Greenfield Larrabee ________+
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| |_Dorothy Larrabee ___|_Alice Parke ________________
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_John Whipple _______|
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| | _John Hutchins ______|_Sarah Hardy ________________
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| | _Jonathan Cressey ___|_Sarah Hidden _______________
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| | _Henry Bartor _______________+
| | | (1668 - 1747) m 1694
| |_Eleanor Barter _____|_Sarah Jane Crockett ________
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|--Henry Willard "Willard" Whipple
| (1812 - 1889)
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Willard Whipple is the name most associated with the history of the area, since busy Whipple Avenue in Redwood City is named for him. The thoroughfare was originally called Whipple's Mill Road because of the lumber he hauled on it and then Whipple Road, before its current appellation.Whipple was born in New York around 1803. He married Elizabeth Hayes in 1824 and followed his parents by entering into the Mormon Church. It is thought he left the Mormon settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois in 1844, and then came to California.That his politics were pro-North, as the Civil War approached, is evident in his naming the Creek of which he is associated: "Union Creek." As the stream flowed between his two mills, he originally referred to sections of the Creek as "East Union Mill" and "West Union Mill". Common usage, however, designated the "Upper Mill" as the western site and "Lower Mill" as the one to the east. The Creek itself simply became West UnionWhipple originally got into the redwood business in the Woodside area when he, with Isaac Branham and a man named DeHart, built a steam-powered mill at the site of Charles Brown's mill at Alambigue Creek. Whipple, with a previous partner, had evidently brought a steam boiler around Cape Horn. It may have been the first on the Pacific Coast. It was certainly the first on the Peninsula.Whipple made it his business to deliver logs to this mill, charging his partners $25 per thousand board feet. He eventually bought out his companions and made enough with this mill to build two new mills on West Union Creek.Before the buyout, with his associates, in July of 1852, he leased rights to log trees to the north and west of his original mill, including land all the way to the summit of the mountains, from John Greer of Rancho Cañada de Raymundo. These lands included the property known today as the Phleger Estate.
!SOURCE: 16 Aug 1850 U.S. Census of Bradford, McKean, Pennsylvania, dwelling 354, family 354:
!SOURCE: California State Census, 1852, San Francisco County - familysearch.org FHL film 004640622, image 709, lines 31-35:
!SOURCE: Daily Alta California, Vol. 5, no. 301, 30 Oct 1854, p. 4, column 3:
Sheriff's Sale--By virtue of an execution issued out of the Superior Court of the City of San Francisco, at the suit of Willard Whipple, Eli Whipple, Watkin Powell and Robert Palmer against C. Richards, L. Richards and Oliver Wetherbee, duly attested the 17th day of August, 1854, I have seized and taken into execution the following property, to wit: All the interest of the said defendants, any or either of them, in and to the steam sawmill known as "Richards' Mill," situated on the mountain in the Redwoods, near the Pulgas Ranch, in San Francisco county ...
!SOURCE: Pioneer Database, 1847-1868: William McBride Company (1855) "This small company consisted of 24 people with 8 wagons when it left Santa Clara, California. They were joined by 13 others six days later and traveled down the coast and then inland from Los Angeles to San Bernardino. ... From there they traveled northward over Cajon Pass across the Mojave Desert on the California Road to Salt Lake City." <http s://history.churchofjesuschrist.o rg/overlandtravel/companies/393/w illiam-mc-bride-company-1855>:
!SOURCE: "Phleger Estate" article in Wikipedia, cited 16 May 2021:
Willard Whipple was one of many area lumbermen who dragged logs to the port at Redwood City. His Whipple's Mill Road has come to be known as Whipple Avenue. He was a Union sympathizer in the Civil War and named the creek on which his mills operated West Union Creek. Whipple built his steam-powered Upper Mill in late 1852 at the site of today's Phleger House (now occupied by Gordon and Betty Moore) on the Phleger Estate.
!SOURCE: The San Francisco Directory for the Year commencing December, 1865, p. 452 - familysearch FHL film 008728274, image 1675: "Whipple Willard, contractor, dwl 321 Clementina."
!SOURCE: Daily Alta California, vol. 80, no. 92, 2 Apr 1889, p. 1, col. 3: "Willard Whipple, a life member, on March 11th, at Farmington, Utah"
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