WILLIAM WHITING

Whiting, William (1813-1873), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Concord, Middlesex, Mass., on March 3, 1813; attended Concord Academy and was graduated from Harvard University in 1833; taught school in Plymouth and Concord, Mass.; was graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1838; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Boston; solicitor of the War Department 1862-1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1873, until death in Boston, Suffolk, Mass., June 29, 1873; interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.
Parents: William Whiting, Hannah Conant
Spouse: Lydia Cushing Russell
Born: abt 1816 in Massachusetts
Marriage: 28 Oct 1840 in Massachusetts
Children Sex Birth
Rose Standish Whiting F b. abt 1844 in Mass.
William St. John Whiting M b. abt 1847 in Mass.
William Russell Whiting M b. abt 1851 in Mass.
Harold Whiting M b. abt 1855 in Mass.

Sources:
United States Federal Census
Vital Records
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell