1925 obit-Julius Whitney-Brattleboro, Windham Co., VT
Date:	5/5/98 6:51:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time

From:	tess@sover.net (Terry Perham)
from the Brattleboro Reformer
Brattleboro, Windham County, VT.   1925

                JULIUS WHITNEY DIES AT AGE 89
Was Civil War Veteral and Former Long-Time Foreman in Reed Department at
Estey Organ Plant

        Julius Whitney, 89, a Frand Army veteran and formerly for many years
foreman of the reed department at the Estey Organ plant, died about 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon in his home at 97 Green street.  Death was
due to advanced age and hardening of the arteries.  His decline had been
marked since the middle of March, but he was not confined to his bed at
all.

        Mr. Whitney was born in Ashby, Mass., May 28, 1836, and was the last
survivor of a family of 10 children of Jonas and Rebecca (Piper)
Whitney.  His father was a pipe organ maker and moved his business and
family to Springfield, Mass., when Mr. Whitney was nine years old, going
three years later to Fitchburg, Mass.

        On July 19, 1861, Mr. Whitney enlisted in Company D, 21st Massachusetts
Volunteers, and was made a sergeant at camp in Worcester, in time
becoming first lieutenant.  He was twice wounded, but not seriously, at
Cold Harbor, and was mustered out Aug. 20, 1864.

        After the war Mr. Whitney engaged in carpentering.  He married Harriet
A. Downe in Fitchburg, Feb. 25, 1864.  Her death occurred in December of
the following year.  Mr. Whitney came to Brattleboro in January, 1866,
and entered the employ of the Estey Organ Co., and on Oct. 18, of that
year married Mary J. Whitney of Westminster, Mass.  They began
housekeeping in what years afterward was known as Reed's castle on Green
street.

        After working for the Estey Organ Co., about nine years the factory
then being on the old Brattleboro House site, near Whetstone bridge, Mr.
Whitney was employed until 1890 by his brother, the late Josiah D.
Whitney of this place, in the manufacture of reed making machinery in
Harmony block.  He then returned to to the employ of the Estey Co., and
was foreman of the reed department 17 years, retiring in 1907.  Mrs.
Whitney died March 4, 1920.

        Mr. Whitney leaves two sons, one by each marriage.  They are Herbert P.
Whitney of Fitchburg and Louis A. Whitney of Brattleboro.  Since 1920
Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Whitney have lived with him and cared for him.

        He was an expert workman and never slighted any detail of any piece of
furniture of inlaid design in the family'spossession are marvels of
painstaking workmanship.  He was a man of integrity, devoted to his
family, and was solicitous not for his own comfort but for that of those
around him.  He had been a member of Sedgwick post, G.A.R. since 1868.

        Funeral services will be held in the home at 4 o'clock tomoreow, Rev.
Dr. Herbert P. Woodin, pastor of the Centre Congregational church,
officiating.  The body will be taken to Fitchburg for burial Saturday in
Laurel Hill cemetery.
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(c)1998, Terry Perham
Courtesy of
Terry Perham
Hinsdale, NH
tess@sover.net

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