Mr. Whitney is the manager in charge of the publication known as "Our
Hope and Life in Christ," issued by the Western Advent Christian Publication
Association, of Mendota. This periodical was brought from Minneapolis to
Mendota in 1892, and Mr. Whitney has held his present position in connection
with the concern ever since August, 1894.
Mr. Whitney was born at
Vanorin, Bureau county, this state, March 18, 1862. His parents, Lysander
and Roxanna (Viner) Whitney, were natives of Massachusetts, of Berkshire
county, and both were of old New England families from old England. After
marriage they came west, about 1854, locating upon a farm in Bureau county,
where Mrs. Whitney died in 1882, aged sixty-two years, and Mr. Whitney died
in Mendota, in 1897, at the age of seventy-six years. Both were Advent
Christians, and in politics he was a Republican.
Emerson L. Whitney
was reared to farm life and given a fair education in the country schools
and at Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Chicago. In local office he
has served for several years as a member of the educational board of Mendota
College. In 1887 he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Moore, of
Brodhead, Wisconsin, and they have two interesting children.
Extracted 22 Dec 2017 by Norma Hass from Biographical and Genealogical Record of LaSalle County, Illinois, published in 1900, volume 2, page 533.
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