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Added: Aug 5, 2002. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 6662205. Source citation. Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He was appointed as United States Secretary of the Navy during the first administration of President Grover Cleveland, serving from 1885 to 1889. During his tenure he inaugurated the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
WHITNEY, William Collins, secretary of the navy, b. in Conway, Mass., 15 July, 1841. His father, James S. Whitney, was at one time collector of the port of Boston, and in 1860 was a delegate to the Charleston convention.
William Collins Whitney (July 5, 1841 – February 2, 1904) was an American political leader and financier and a prominent descendant of the John Whitney family. He served as Secretary of the Navy in the first administration of President Grover Cleveland from 1885 through 1889.
Sep 6, 2017 · PDF Version [6.9MB] Born in Conway, Mass. 5 July 1841. Died at New York, 2 February 1904. Educated at Yale and Harvard. Settled in New York City where he was admitted to the bar. 1871 took prominent part in organization of the Young Men's Democratic Club; was actively opposed to the Tweed Ring. 1875-1882 he held position of Corporation Counsel ...
William Whitney was born at Conway, Massachusetts, of Puritan stock. The family were descended from John Whitney of London, who settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635. William Whitney's father was Brigadier General James Scollay Whitney; his mother, Laurinda Collins, was a descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford. William Whitney had a well known older brother, industrialist Henry Melville Whitney (1839–1923), president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, founder of the ...
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Feb 10, 2018 · Whitney Mansion. 871 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York. Completed in 1902, for the twice widowed William Collins Whitney (1841-1904) though intended as a wedding present for his second wife - and a statement to those who disapproved of her! The original house at 871 Fifth Avenue (the Stuart Mansion) had been built in 1883 but when Whitney ...
