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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record ..., Volume 2
edited by Hiram Carleton
E. 1!. WHITING.
E. B. Whiting, a prominent journalist and leading business man of St. .Albans, Vermont, where he resided for so many years, was descended from one of the oldest and most respected families of Massachusetts. The founder of the family in America was Nathanacl Whiting, son of Nathanael and Hannah Whiting. He was born in England in the seventeenth century, and joined his countrymen in the new world, finding a home in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. He married, whether before or after his emigration is not
known. Joanna Gay, March 29, 1664, and died in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Jonathan Whiting, son of Nathaniel and Joanna (Gay) Whiting, was born October 9, 1667, and married December 13. 1689, Rachel Thorp. Jonathan Whiting, son of Jonathan and Rachel (Thorp) Whiting, was born November 8, 1896, and married, January 27, 1725, Anna Billiard. William Whiting, son of Jonathan and Anna (Bullard) Whiting, was born January n, 1726, and married, April 11, 1754, Hannah Ellis. Enoch Whiting, son of William and Hannah (Ellis) Whiting, was born July 18, 1781, at Dedham, Massachusetts, where, if we may judge from the record, the life of the family had for several generations run a quiet and uneventful course. Enoch Whiting, however, moved from the ancestral home to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he conducted a large tannery, which he sold in 1834, and moved again, this time to St. Albans, Vermont, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Congregational church, and married, October 13, 1803, Catherine Smith, born December 27, 1781, at Dover, Massachusetts, descended on the maternal side from the Richards. Their children were: William, born December 5, 1804, died January 21, 1837; Willard, born August 19, 1806, and he and his wife were cast on Cape Hatteras and lost their lives on October 9, 1837; Hannah Ellis, born August 15, 1808, died June 25, 1849; Emeline Celia, born January 3, 1811, died May 20, 1811; Calvin, born June 4, 1812, died April 17, 1884; Enoch Bangs, born February 26, 1816, died April 3, 1898; Catherine Smith, born May 23, 1819, died May 9, 1845, and she married Benjamin F. Russell, and their child Catherine died September 17, 1845; Henry Lewis, born October 4, 1821, died July 4, 1893: Eliza Draper, born August 21, 1823, died June 15, 1883, and married John P. Clark; and Francis Ellis, born November 2, 1827, was drowned May 14. 1832.
Enoch B. Whiting, son of Enoch and Catherine (Smith) Whiting, was born February 26, 1816, at Amherst, Massachusetts. He had the advantage of a practical training for his future career as a journalist, having worked in the printing offices of the Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, and also in the offices of the Boston Journal. He then went to St. Albans, Vermont, where he had a brother living-, and in 1837 bought out the local paper and founded the Messenger. By his fine abilities and untiring efforts, this paper was for over thirty years an important factor in the development and prosperity of the town, and not only of the town, but of the state also. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil war. the Daily Messenger was established, and a bookbindery and bookstore were added to the printing business. In 1872 Mr. Whiting became interested in the Burlington Brush Company, and on the closing up of that company in 1873, he bought the right and interest in certain fibrecombing machines and established a new industry, that of dressing and preparing fibre for brushes. In commerce he was no less successful than he had been in journalism, the business conducted by him being one of the most flourishing in Vermont.
In politics Mr. Whiting was a stanch Republican, but preferred to devote himself to advancing the best interests of the community as a journalist and business man rather than an office holder. Mr. Whiting was an active and devoted member of the Congregational church, a liberal participant in its benevolent enterprises, and in disposition extremely charitable. He never lost his interest in the newspapers of Vermont, and was one of the few honory members of the Vermont Press Association.
Mr. Whiting married at St. Albans, Vermont. November 24, 1841, Mary Loraine Fairchild, who was born March 21, 1817, in Georgia, Vermont, a daughter of Philo Fairchild, who was one of the early settlers of Georgia, Vermont, and later of Flint, Michigan, where he went in 1836. Mrs. Whiting was a woman of fine educational attainments and before her marriage had been a teacher. Their children were: William Hammond, born at St. Albans, February 3, 1843, graduated at Amherst college in 1869, and followed the profession of journalism, and died in St. Albans, Vermont, December 29, 1874; Mary Catherine, born, as were the following named children, at St. Albans. November T2, 1844. graduated in New York, and married E. H. Bowers, cashier in a bank of Rock Island, 1111iiBurlington, Vermont: and Alfred Catlin, bom I*>bruary 23, 1853, attended the University of Vermont, engaged in the manufacture of brush fibre and married, October 9, 1878, Lillie Lewis, after whose death he married Ada Bartlett.
In 1882 Mr. Whiting removed to Burlington, Vermont, where he resided until his deatb on April 3, 1898, at the advanced age of eighty-two, leaving behind him the record of a progressive, public-spirited citizen, and an honorable, courteous and kindly man.
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, d. 9 May 1845 (Age 25 years)