Dallas B Whipple

Birth 1844 Death 1918 (aged 73–74) Burial Riverside Cemetery Belfast, Allegany County, New York, USA Plot Section D lot 19 Memorial ID 13473352 · View Source Buried in Springfield,Ohio Listed on Flinn Monument Spouse: Eliza Flinn

Dallas Benjamin Whipple, D. D. S., son of Benjamin and Pamelia (Marsh) Whipple, was born in New Hudson Oct. 1 I, 1844, where Benjamin Whipple settled in 1830 and died Aug. 3, 1889. His children were Harriet (Mrs. Hiram Gleason of Belfast), Dr. Prescott of Chicago,Mary L. (died in Flint, Mich., in 1847, leaving 2 sons), Dr. Otis of Olean, Dallas B., Royal (a farmer on the New Hudson homestead) and Dr. Gardner of Cuba. D. B. Whipple practiced dentistry in Cuba and Olean, and in 1877 became an oil operator on Kendall Creek, Pa., and founded Dallas City. In 1881 he operated in Richburg and later in Clarksville. In 1882 he purchased a farm in the village which he stocked with that famous herd of Holstein-Friesiancattle, known as "The family of Pietertje 2d," (see another page). Mr. Whipple then began breeding American trotting horses and was the first man in the county to own a Hambletonian stallion. In 1891 he sold the stallion, "Egthorne," whose record was 2.12 1/2, and now ownssome of his progeny. (This is the fastest stallion record in the state.) Mr. Whipple possessesthe true instincts of a breeder. He has filled all the "chairs" in his Odd Fellows lodge and isa Freemason. He has been village trustee, president of Valley Point Agricultural and Mechan-ical Society for two years, vice president of the Western New York Agricultural Society andvice president of the Elmira Exposition. He was the organizer of the "D. B. Whipple Protec-tives" fire company of Cuba. Siblings: Prescott-1833 Mary-1835 Otis-1837 Royal-1847 Gardner-1849