. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . e. —« ^ kRRlN WHITNEY. Among the old set-V^l^y tiers of Meeker county, who are stillspared to this world, there is none moreworthy of mention in a work of this charac-ter than the gentleman whose name headsthis sketch. He came to this county inMarch, 1857, with his brother, A. P. Whit-ney, S. B. Hutchins and others, and settledat Kingston, where he still lives. He helpedbuild the mill |)ut up l)v Whitney, Averill &Hutchins, in 1857 and 1858, which was thefirst grist-mill in the county, and from theday of his first location here has

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. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . e. —« ^ kRRlN WHITNEY. Among the old set-V^l^y tiers of Meeker county, who are stillspared to this world, there is none moreworthy of mention in a work of this charac-ter than the gentleman whose name headsthis sketch. He came to this county inMarch, 1857, with his brother, A. P. Whit-ney, S. B. Hutchins and others, and settledat Kingston, where he still lives. He helpedbuild the mill |)ut up l)v Whitney, Averill &Hutchins, in 1857 and 1858, which was thefirst grist-mill in the county, and from theday of his first location here has alwa^s beenidentified with the onward progress and de-velo|mi(nt of this region. The subject of this biograpliy was Itorn inSomerset county, Me., August 18, 1815, andis tlie son of William and Olive (Parlin)Whitney, who were natives of Connecticutand Massachusetts, respectively. He wasreared in Penobscot county, in the PineTree State, and there received the elementsof his education. On attaining his majority, he commenced farming in his native

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