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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 455-456]

    C. E. WHITNEY, one of the well-known and popular farmers of Silver
    Township, has been a resident of Cherokee County since 1876.  He was
    born in Chautauqua County, New York, October 4, 1847, and is a son
    of TRUMAN and JANE (RANSOM) WHITNEY.  They were the parents of five
    children, only two living: MARY J., wife of WALLACE WILCOX, of
    Chautauqua County, New York, and C. E. WHITNEY, the subject of this
    notice.  The father was a shoemaker in early life, but in later years
    took a heavily timbered farm which his son assisted him in clearing.
    He died in December, 1887, and his wife died when C. E. was five years
    old.  When Mr. WHITNEY was twenty years old he broke the ties of
    childhood and youth and went out into the world to make a career for
    himself.  He came to Delaware County, Iowa, and having been trained
    to agricultural pursuits, he worked at farming by the month in
    Delaware, Fayette and Buchanan counties.  He was married October 25,
    1868, in Buchanan County, to Miss SARAH M. WARNER, who was born in
    Tuscarawas County, Ohio, a daughter of GEORGE and MARY (GOODMAN)
    WARNER.  Farming through the wet year of 1869, in 1870 he obtained a
    position with GRANGER & BRADSHAW, prominent stockmen of Marion County,
    Iowa, in whose employ he remained for five years, running a threshing-
    machine every fall.  In 1876 he removed to O'Brien County, Iowa, and
    engaged in farming.  The grasshoppers totally destroyed his crops that
    season, and in the fall he came to Cherokee County, and located on his
    present farm the following April, 1877.  He has a barn, granary, cribs,
    and many conveniences for feeding stock, one of the best wells in the
    county, a fine grove of timber, and an orchard, with a great variety
    of small fruits.  One hundred and forty acres of the land is in cul-
    tivation, and the balance is in pasture and meadow.  Mr. and Mrs.
    WHITNEY are the parents of nine children: ROSA BELL, MARTHA DELL,
    ALICE NELL, MARY ESTELL, GENIE ETHELL, ADDIE LOUELL, NINA VELL, EDNA
    AURELL and ORRIN EMMETT.  In politics Mr. WHITNEY is independent. He
    and his wife and four daughters are consistent members of the Metho-
    dist Episcopal Church.  They are in the prime of life, cordial and
    hospitable, and among the leading families of the township.

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