Jonathan
Rasselas
Whitney
Born in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Platt Whitney
and Lois (Buttles) Whitney
Brother of
William Lewis Whitney, Samuel H Whitney, Agnes Whitney, Marcus I Whitney, Nelson Whitney, Seth Enon Whitney, John Viets Whitney and Harriet Atwood (Whitney) Rhodes
Husband of
Maria Louise (Moore) Whitney
— married
1827 [location unknown]
Husband of
Jane (Culver) Whitney
— married
1842 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
S. E. Whitney, W. L. Whitney, Emmeline (Whitney) Bailey, Marvilla Whitney, Watson Whitney, Almon Whitney, Jonathon Miles Whitney, Lourena Fredricka (Whitney) Batchelder and Rollin A. Whitney
Died
at age 82
in Montville, Geauga, Ohio, United States
Profile last modified
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Contents |
Biography
Jonathan R Whitney. [1]
Jonathan was born in 1804. He passed away in 1886.
Books
The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations
- 1532. III. Jonathan Rasselas Whitney, b. at East Granville, Mass., 30 June 1804; a shoemaker; lived in Granby, Conn., from the Spring of 1819 to the Autumn of 1820, and at Tolland, Mass. till Sept. 1827, and then went to Torringford, Conn., where he married 16 Sept 1827 Maria Louisa Moore, dau. of Elihu and Hannah (Soper) Moore of Torringford, where she was born 18 July 1809. They left Torringford 4 May 1828 and settled at Montville, Ohio, where she died 15 Aug 1842. He married 2d at Freedom, Ohio, 29 Sept 1842, Jane Culver, of Freedom, who was born at Chippewa, Ohio, 9 Dec 1819, dau. of Miles Culver. He has been a travelling preacher of the Wesleyan Methodist and of the United Brethren Churches; and has filled for several years the office of justice of the peace at Montville where he still resided in Aug 1874. [2]
Sources
- ↑ Source: #S808000365
- ↑ The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878, Volume 1, by Stephen Whitney, 1878, Bradford Press, https://books.google.com/books?id=X5dQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA330
- Source: S808000365 Repository: #R800194390 North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
- Repository: R800194390 Ancestry.com
Census
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQS-S5V : 12 April 2016), J R Whitney, Montville, Geauga, Ohio, United States; citing family 66, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC2R-547 : 13 December 2017), Jonathan R Whitney, 1860.
"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M627-P5R : 12 April 2016), J R Whitney, Ohio, United States; citing p. 5, family 44, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,703.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8MJ-SZG : 13 September 2017), Johathan R Whitny, Montville, Geauga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district ED 74, sheet 97D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1019; FHL microfilm 1,255,019.
Death
Find A Grave: Memorial #159721328
Children's Death
"Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8T9-79X : 8 March 2018), Jonathan Whitney in entry for Emaline Bailey, 10 Apr 1923; citing Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, reference fn 23680; FHL microfilm 1,992,266.
"Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ6B-LFY : 9 March 2018), Jonathan Whitney in entry for Lurena F Batchelder, 20 Apr 1939; citing Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, reference fn 22714; FHL microfilm 2,023,711.
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Categories: Justices of the Peace | Wesleyan Methodist Ministers | Church of the Brethren Ministers | Shoemakers
The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878, Volume 1, by Stephen Whitney, 1878, Bradford Press,
https://books.google.com/books?id=X5dQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA330