Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Whipple, Benjamin A. February 7, 1847 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Whipple, Benjamin A., Stark, is a son of Addison and Janette (McDonald) 
Whipple.  His grandfather. James, came from Connecticut, a pioneer of 
Springfield, Otsego county, and was twice married. His first wife bore him six 
sons and five daughters. Addison was born in Springfield, and was a farmer and 
manufacturer. He died in 1867, aged sixty-three, and his wife in January, 
1891, aged eighty-four. They raised five children:  John J., Anna W., Joseph 
S., Eugene M. and Benjamin A. The latter was born in Springfield, February 7, 
1847. At nineteen he began life for himself by farming on the homestead. At 
twenty-one he began the manufacture of cheese at Springfield, and a year later 
came to Van Hornesville. and ran a cheese factory two years. He then spent
three years in Illinois in the sewing machine business. In 1875 he bought the 
cheese factory at Van Hornesville, and in the winter of 1876 came to tbis 
village and has had charge ever since. The factory was established in 1868. He 
was also engaged in mercantile business five years. In February, 1892, he was 
elected town clerk. He married October 14, 1868, Frances A. Drew, daughter of 
Chauncey P. and Elizabeth (Corbin) Drew, of Springfield, and they have one 
child, Jessie B. He is a Democrat in politics.


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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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