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Served in Mexican War
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1850; Census Place: New York Ward 18, New York, New York; Roll: M432_557; Page: 123B; Image: 253.
765/1807 Henry Whiting 61 male Brig Gen US Army $2000 Massachusetts
Eliza Whiting 55 fem Michigan
Henry McCamb Whiting 28 male 1st Lieut US Army Massachusetts
Wm D Whiting 27 male Past Mid Shipman US Army Mass
Mary Gilbs 35 fem Ireland
Ann Miller 30 fem Ireland
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Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of his wife, Elizabeth St. John ...
By William Whiting
(Of the children of Gen. Henry Whiting are Lieut. Henry Macomb W., U. S. A., and Lieut. William Danforth W., U. S. N.)
The other children of Gen. John Whiting, were, -
4. Sophia, d. 1853, s. p.
5. Fabius (Major U. S. A.), d. s. p., 1842.
6. Maria, b. 1794.
7. Solon, b. 1797.
8. Caroline Lee (Hentz), b. at Lancaster, 1800 (authoress), 1825, m. Professor N. M. Hentz, at Northampton.
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Washington, George; Whiting, John compiler: Revolutionary Orders of General Washington, Issued During the Years 1778, '80, '81, and '82 Selected from the Mss. of John Whiting and edited by his son Henry Whiting, New York Wiley and Putnam 1844 Very Good
First edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR GENERAL HENRY WHITING and by his son Henry M. Whiting, who served in the U.S. Mexican War. Rare ephemera announcing the death and mourning period of General Henry Whiting is tipped in. Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Henry Whiting was commissioned a Cornet of Dragoons, October 20, 1808 and served on the Niagara frontier in the War of 1812 with Great Britain. In the War with Mexico he served as Quartermaster General. His father, Col. John Whiting of the 5th U.S. Infantry was Adjutant of the 2d Regiment of the Massachusetts Line commanded by Lieut.-Col. Commandant E. Sproat. He preserved most if not all of the Orders from General Washington. These fascinating Orders cover matters great and small: the discipline of the troops, health and sanitation, the organization of the army and its support services, and a uniform system of manoeuvres. Throughout the Orders, Washington evidences deep concern for his soliders as well as civilians, a deep spirituality, and his gratitude for the support from France. Rebacked with original decorated silk boards, new endpapers. Very good. Signed by Editor First Edition Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
[KW: VALLEY FORGE REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON BENEDICT ARNOLDUnited States History Americana United States Presidents]
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CHAP. CXXXIII. —— An Act granting a Pension to Eliza Whiting. May 2, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- ¥’¤¤i¤_tp terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension Ehza Wl“°‘“g' roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Eliza lVhiting, widow of the late Brevet Brigadier—General Henry Whiting, and pay her a pension, to commence from the passage of this act. Approved, May 2, 1872.
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Death: Died 1851
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Birth: Nov 28 1788
Death: Sep 16 1851 - Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri, USA
Parents: John WHITING, Orpha WHITING (born DANFORTH)
Siblings: Timothy Danforth WHITING, Julia WHITING, Sophia WHITING, Fabius WHITING, Maria WHITING, Solon WHITING, Caroline Lee HENTZ (born WHITING)
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Birth: Nov. 28, 1788
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA
Death: Sep. 16, 1851
Saint Louis
St. Louis City
Missouri, USA
Brigadier General, 5th United States Infantry, Mexican War. (bio by: Sgt. Rock)
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John Whiting (1760 - 1810)
Orpah Danforth Whiting (1758 - 1837)
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Eliza Macomb Whiting (1795 - 1873)*
Children:
William Danforth Whiting (1823 - 1894)*
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Elmwood Cemetery
Detroit
Wayne County
Michigan, USA
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Birth: Nov 28 1788
Death: Sep 16 1851
Cemetery: Elmwood Cemetery, Michigan, USA
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Durbin, Elizabeth (ed.) / Wisconsin Academy review Volume 25, Number 4 (September 1979)
Goff, Charles D. Captain Whiting's journal, pp. 3-10
The current is so furious as often to s,weep a man off his feet . . . compatible with a still later demonstration of a Lake Nipissing stage of Lake Michigan some 50 feet above modern levels. Whiting's discussion of the feasibility of a canal at Portage preceded by a decade, the promo- tion of the same idea by Morgan L. Martin, organizer of the company that built the Fox River im- provements. Whiting's watercolored field sketches of Fox-Wisconsin valley landscapes and maps are probably the oldest landscape paintings and maps of Wisconsin sites done dur- ing Michigan Territorial days by an American citizen. If the title "First Wisconsin Scientist" is accorded to the person who first published a series of es- sentially scientific observations and conclusions about Wisconsin phenomena, and if the title "First Wisconsin Artist" is accorded to the white American who first painted a Wisconsin scene, it would seem that Captain Henry Whiting should have at least a share in both titles. Whiting's Journal was a report to the US War Department describing the movement of the Fifth Infantry Regiment from Green Bay to Prairie du Chien. The American Army, after the War of 1812, had adopted a long-term policy of building and garrisoning a system of frontier forts extending from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. In Wisconsin and closely adjacent areas, for example, forts were built at Green Bay (Fort Howard) in 1816, Prairie du Chien (Fort Craw- ford) in 1817, Rock Island, Illinois (Fort Armstrong) in 1817, and St. Peters i.e. present day St. Paul, Minnesota (Fort Snelling) in 1819. A modest incident in the implemen- tation of this policy was the redeployment of the US Fifth In- fantry Regiment from Detroit to Green Bay to Prairie du Chien to St. Paul in the summer of 1819. Captain Whiting's Journal describing the route was illustrated by seven colored sketches and three maps; the report received commen- dation from the then Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun. Neither Journal sketches nor maps have ever been published. The sketches and maps are presented here for the first time together with extracts from the text. Captain Whiting was a career soldier in the United States Army. He was born into a military family on November 28, 1788, his father, John Whiting, having risen to the rank of brigadier general of the Massachusetts Militia in the American Revolution. At the time of his retirement at the end of the War of 1812 John Whiting was the lieutenant colonel of the US Fifth Infantry Regiment. We can surmise that young Henry Whiting was well educated for his day because of the percep- tive awareness of geology and physical geography expressed in his writing and also because of its scientific restraint. He apparently also had a detailed acquaintance with the physical geography of Europe from Spain to Sweden, which suggests that his education may have included travel in Europe. The fact that his sister, Carolyn Lee Whiting Hentz, was a noted 19th century author may also imply that Captain Whiting was at least as well-educated. In any case, Henry Whiting enlisted in the US Army on October 20, 1808, at the age of 20, as a coronet of light dragoons. Whiting's military history shows he was promoted to second lieuten- ant on September 15, 1809, and to first lieutenant on August 20, 1811. During the War of 1812 First Lieutenant Henry Whiting served on the Niagara frontier as an aid to General John F. Boyd and served with credit in the capture on May 27, 1813 of Fort George, a British- Canadian fort in the Canadian province of Ontario a short way down the St. Lawrence River from Lake Ontario. In 1815 Lieutenant Whiting was an aide to General Alexander Macomb at Detroit and was transferred on May 17, 1815 to the Fifth Infantry, his father's old regi- ment, then stationed at Detroit. Whiting was promoted to captain on March 3, 1817. In 1819 the Fifth Infantry was assigned the mission of traveling from Detroit to St. Peters, selecting a suitable site for a fort, then building and garrisoning what is known today as Fort Snell- ing at St. Paul, Minnesota. Pur- suent to these orders, Colonel Leavenworth and the Fifth Infan- try Regiment embarked on sailing vessel transports at Detroit in May 1819, sailed to Green Bay, reloaded their equipment and supplies into 4/Wisconsin Academy Review/September 1979
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32 batteaux, which had been built for them at Green Bay, and movedout toward the Mississippi River on June 7, 1819.After the Fifth Regiment reached
the Mississippi, Colonel Leavenworth detached troops to
garrison both Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien and Fort Armstrong at Rock Island, Illinois,the remainder of the regiment proceeding upriver in their
batteaux to St. Peters. Captain Whiting did not accompany the
regiment up the Mississippi as he was ordered back to Detroit with
messages for the commanding general, and with Whiting's own
"survey" of the Fox-Wisconsin Rivers. Captain Whiting's Journal is a
chronological account of each day's activity of the regiment in his
march, and included meticulous observations concerning the depth
of the water, the direction of the river virtually every time it changed
from the principal points of the compass, and supplementary comments and speculations about the character and geographic origin of the terrain formations through which the regiment was passing. Whiting embellished his report to General Macomb with excellent field sketches which he water-
colored. The report was forwarded by General Macomb to the US Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun,who commented, in a letter to Major General A. Macomb on
September 20, 1819: Sir: Your letter . .. enclosing a copy of the survey of the Fox and Ouisconsin rivers including the portage by Capt. Henry Whiting . . . has been received. The accurate and able manner in which the sketch by Capt.
Green Bay ... now contains about fifty houses and two or three hundred in-
habitants, who are mostly French married to Indians. Whiting has been executed affords the Department much satisfaction....J.C.C.
An outline of Whiting's subsequent career may help the reader to see him in better perspective. After completing his report on the Fifth Infantry's march from Green Bay to Prairie du Chien, Captain Whiting served on the staff of Ma-
jor General Macomb at Detroit. He was transferred to the First Artillery on June 1, 1821, promoted to major in 1824, transferred to the quartermaster department in 1835,and promoted to lieutenant colonel on July 7, 1838, and to colonel on April 21, 1846.
In the Mexican War Colonel Whiting was assigned to the army of General Zachary Taylor on July 6, 1846, as chief quartermaster. Colonel Whiting
was a participant in the Battle of Buena Vista, was brevetted as brigadier general for his "gallant and meritorious conduct," and subsequently retired on February 23, 1847.
On retirement from the army, Colonel Whiting returned to Detroit where he was elected a regent of the University of Michigan in 1848. In retirement he
continued his lifelong interest in a wide variety of military, scientific
and literary matters until his sudden death at St. Louis on
September 16, 1851. As a tribute of . .beautiful banks, sloping to the water
from a height of 20 or 30 feet and
crowned with thrifty oaks.
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respect to Whiting's memory, the staff of the quartermaster department to which he had belonged were ordered by Major General Scott to wear the prescribed badge of mourning for 30 days.
The publication record of Henry Whiting indicates that he possessed wide interests and impressive talents. His bibliography includes a book, The Age of Steam; a Biography of Zebulon Pike, which appeared in Sparks' American
Biography; the editing of a volume, George Washington's Military Orders; and the joint authorship of a book, Historical and Scientific Sketches of Michigan. Whiting was a periodic contributor to the North American Review and seems to have been fascinated with American Indians. He published three narrative poems and his Sannillac, which had notes by
Michigan governor Lewis Cass and the famous Indian agent/anthropologist/writer, Henry R. Schoolcraft.
Captain Whiting's Journal was written when present day Wisconsin was part of Michigan Territory. The Fox-Wisconsin Rivers along which the Fifth Regiment voyaged had been fur trading country fortwo centuries. Hundreds of French
and British explorers, fur traders,priests and soldiers had passed this
way. Yet Whiting was an observer of these two valleys before more than a very few settlers had begun to live there permanently and before there were any significant works of man to change the wilderness face of the land.
When the Fifth Infantry Regiment arrived at Green Bay in Michigan Territory in 'the last week of May 1819, they made preparations at Fort Howard to
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