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- 1860; Census Place: Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll M653_500; Page: 996; Image: 351; Family History Library Film: 803500.
2040/2456 Wm Whiting 33 male farmer $4000/400 Mass
Ann S 29 fem Mass
Augustus H 06 male Mass attended school
Milard W 03 male Mass
Sally Davis 63 fem $500 Mass
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1870; Census Place: Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll M593_622; Page: 155A; Image: 316; Family History Library Film: 552121.
291/315 Whiting William 42 male white farmer $16000/7000 Massachusetts
Anna L 38 fem white Keeps House Mass
Augustus 15 male white at school Mass
Willard 12 male white at school Mass
Anna L 02 fem white Mass
Marston Charles 25 male white farm laborer Mass
Jameson Mary 16 fem white domestic servant Canada parents foreign born
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1880; Census Place: Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll T9_538; Family History Film: 1254538; Page: 123.4000; Enumeration District: 357; Image: 0524.
Household Record 1880 United States Census
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
418/431
William WHITING Self M Male W 53 MA. Farmer MA. MA.
Ann L. WHITING Wife M Female W 49 MA. Keeps House MA. MA.
Annie L. WHITING Dau S Female W 12 MA. At Home MA. MA.
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Source Information:
Census Place Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Family History Library Film 1254538
NA Film Number T9-0538
Page Number 123D
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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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