Month: August 2012

Edwin and Hannah H. Brown Family Photo

Edwin Whiting, Lorenzo Whiting,son, Hannah Haines Brown Whiting, Abby Ann Whiting Bird

Family Photographs: Mary Elizabeth Cox Whiting and Children

Family Photographs – Mary Elizabeth Cox and children of Mary Cox and Edwin Whiting.

Obituary: Mary Elizabeth Cox Whiting

Headstone Mary Elizabeth Cox Whiting Arizona

Obituary for Mary Elizabeth Cox Whiting, St. Johns, Arizona

Mary Elizabeth Cox Whiting obituary St. Johns Arizona

Cemetery Headstone of Elizabeth P. Tillotson Whiting

Headstone located in the Springville, Utah, City Cemetery. She shares this stone with Mary Ann Washburn Whiting, 5th Wife and Edwin Whiting on the reverse side. Location: Blk 51 Lot 1 Pos 7

Family Photo of Edwin and Elizabeth P. Tillotson Whiting

Edwin and Elizabeth Partridge Tillotson Whiting Family

Front Row: Sarah Elizabeth Whiting Snow, Edwin Whiting, Elizabeth Partridge Tillotson Whiting, Helen Amila Whiting Buchanan.

Back Row: Louisa Meletiah Whiting Johnson, Oscar Newell Whiting, Caroline Fidelia Whiting Bromley, Edwin Lucius Whiting. Inset: William Whiting. Note: William Died about two weeks before photo was taken.

Photo: George Edward Anderson Collection, #16149

Above: Image of William Whiting, son of Edwin and Elizabeth. William died of pneumonia just days before the family portrait above was taken.

Edwin Whiting Chair Maker

Occupations

There are many references in Edwin’s biographies of his making chairs as a livelyhood and that it was a family occupation. Other articles in this website including Mary Cox Biography, Samuel Gifford Journal, refer to this. Also the book, Before and After Mt. Pisgah by Clare B. Christensen, has several references to the Whiting chairs. It was a family business. The photo below is one of his chairs that belongs to the Mendenhall Family of Mapleton, Utah.

EdwinWChairjpg-1

Edwin Whiting Legislature

1. Nomination

“At a convention held at Manti on the 16^th, Edwin Whiting was nominated for Councilor and John L. Ivie for member of the House of Representatives of the next Legislative Assembly.

Source: Deseret News Online, July 27, 1859, pg 2.

2. Legislative Members and Committee Assignments

Image:

Source: Deseret News 1859-12-14, pg 4, Meeting of the Legislature

url: http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/deseretnews2&CISOPTR=6846&CISOSHOW=6869

Edwin Whiting Legislature Summary

Edwin Whiting Nominated for Legislative Assembly

There are two legislative bodies of the Legislature, the Councilors and the Representatives. Edwin’s nomination was to be a Councilor.

1.His Nomination

“At a convention held in Manti, on the 16^th, Edwin Whiting was nominated for Councilor and John L. Ivie for member of the House of Representatives for the next Legislative Assembly. Yours Respectfully, G.P.”

Source: Deseret News 1859-07-27, pg. 2, San Pete County Correspondence

Spelling and punctuation original.

url: http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/deseretnews2&CISOPTR=5607&CISOSHOW=5621

2.His Committee Assignments

Source: Deseret News 1859-12-14, pg 4, Meeting of the Legislature

url: http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/deseretnews2&CISOPTR=6846&CISOSHOW=6869

Edwin Whiting was in the Ninth Legislative Assembly (Legislature in our day). In 1859 the Deseret News Online shows that he is a Councilor representing Juab and San Pete County and was present “on the calling the roll”. There were other notables of Church History also there. Daniel H. Wells, Orson Pratt, F. D. Richards, Lorenzo Snow, Amasa Lyman, Geo. A. Smith, John Taylor, and W.W. Phelps are a few of the names that would be recognized in the assembly.

Edwin Whiting’s Committees assignments were: Revenue; Elections; Roads; Bridges, Ferries and Kanyons; Agriculture, Trade and Manufactures.

Source Deseret News Online, Dec 14, 1859, pg 4.

For the Legislative Assembly of 1860, His committee assignments were: Revenue; Eections; Roads, Bridges, Ferries and Kanyons; Education. Many of the prominent names are again listed.

Source, Deseret News Online 19 Dec. 1860, pg 5.

http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/deseretnews2&CISOPTR=6846&CISOSHOW=6869

Edwin Whiting Charged with Cohabitation

Edwin Whiting was charged with cohabitation in connection with his marriage to five wives. The following newspaper article appears on two consecutive pages, shown as follows.

Daily Enquirer 1888- 03-16, pg 3

url: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/DE1/id/4170

Edwin Whiting Sentence Suspended

The following newspaper article is from the Provo Daily Enquirer, 28 March 1888. pg. 5, refers to Edward Whiting. We suppose that this is a misprint, that “Edwin” was intended. “Edward Whiting, 80 years of age, sentence suspended”. The article is only a few days after the above First District Court article above. We know only one Edwin Whiting who fits this description.