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- 1900; Census Place: Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll T623_655; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 667.
11/12 D Moyer Staley head May 1869 31 married 4 years NY NY NY Reader and Interpreter
Anna L wife Aug 1870 29 married 4 years mother of 1:1 living Mass Mass Mass
Samuel Whiting Staley son Oct 1896 3 years single Mass NY Mass
Ann L Whiting mother in law white fem Dec 1834 66 white mother of 4:1 living
Mass Mass Mass
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1910; Census Place: Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll T624_594; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 738; Image: 1028.
256/274 Whiting Ann head fem white 75 widow mother of 4:1 living Mass Mass Mass own income
Staley Anna dau fem white 34 Married 1st time 12 years mother of 1:0 living
Mass Mass Mass
De Moyer son in law male white 40 married 1st time 12 years NY NY NY
Teacher of Elocution
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Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs ..., Volume 3
edited by William Richard Cutter
Page 1123
(IX) William Whiting, Son of Dr. Augustus Whiting (8), was born in Haverhill. Massachusetts, September 13, 1826. He attended the public schools of Charlestown, Benjamin Greenleaf school and Bradford Academy. He resided for a time after his marriage at Merrimac, Massachusetts; he bought' a residence on Main street, Andover, where his children were born. Afterward he bought a fine estate of one hundred acres at Billerica, Massachusetts, which he still retained at the time of his decease. While he and Mrs. Whiting were travelling and spending the winter in Florida, he was accidentally killed on the railroad at Sorrento, January, 1888. His body was brought home to Billerica for burial, and rests in the family lot. He had placed in Billerica Unitarian Church a marble tablet in honor of his ancestor, the Rev. Samuel Whiting, the first minister of Billerica, 1658. Mr. Whiting was a staunch Republican in politics, and was greatly interested and generous in public affairs, but owing to a difficulty in hearing declined to accept public office. He was a close observer, read widely and thought deeply. He was a faithful member of the Unitarian church and active in church work.
William Whiting married. December 30. 1852, Anne Stickney Brown, of Bradford, Massachusetts, a member of the old families of Kimball-Harton. Children, born at Billerica: 1. Augustus Harton, died 1889: he was interested in medicine, studied at Harvard Medical School and with Dr. Bachelder, of Boston. 2. Millard Weston, died May 4. 1878; he was a student at Phillips Academy. Andover. 3. Wilfred Elton, died 1867. 4. Anna Laura, married, December, 1895, Delbert Mover Staley, president of the College of the Spoken Word, Boston, Massachusetts; their only child. Samuel Whiting Staley, born October 2, 1896, died January 23, 1907; he was a rarely beautiful child, of a lofty and rare spiritual personality. He was a member of the Asa Pollard Society, Children American Revolution. Mrs. Whiting resides at "The Apple Boughs," Old Concord road, Billerica. her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Staley. sharing the home with her. She has in her possession land which has been in the family for over two hundred and fifty years.
Tn the "Whiting Memorial" it is stated that the St. John family (see above) is of royal blood, through eleven Kings and Queens of
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