Henry Austin Whitney

Henry Austin Whitney

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A Boston paper published the following obituary: "President Henry Austin Whitney. Death of a noted financier and railroad operator. Henry A. Whitney, the banker and ex-president of the Boston & Providence Railroad, died on 21 February 1889, at 6 o'clock at his residence, 261 Marlboro Street. Mr. Whitney was born in this city in 1826, and after receiving a public school education entered early in life into a course of commercial training.

Entering Harvard College he was graduated in the Class of 1846. He became a banker, and invested his capital in railroad shares. He was a large holder in the Boston & Providence Railroad, and succeeded W.W. Woolsey as president of the corporation. Last summer the road was absorbed by the Old Colony system. Mr. Whitney was a very able man."

He was a prominent member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and has privately printed the following works: "A Brief Account of the Descendants of John and Eleanor Whitney," 1857; "Incidents in the Life of Samuel Whitney," 1860; "An Account of the First Settlers of Hingham;" he resided Boston, Massachusetts.

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