. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Aug. 31, 1905 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 615 WM. M. WHITNEY =\ =/ The subject of this sketch is one of the old- est aDd most earaest readers of the American Bee Journal. At present he resides in Wal- worth Co., Wis. His life has been a very busy one from his youth, being obliged to make his own way—which isn't the worst thing that can happen to a boy—at about the age of 15. His father owned a farm of mod- erate size, and reared a large family—9 chil- dren—which was no easy task. How his father and mother endured the hardships at- tendant on making a hom
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Aug. 31, 1905 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 615 WM. M. WHITNEY =\ =/ The subject of this sketch is one of the old- est aDd most earaest readers of the American Bee Journal. At present he resides in Wal- worth Co., Wis. His life has been a very busy one from his youth, being obliged to make his own way—which isn't the worst thing that can happen to a boy—at about the age of 15. His father owned a farm of mod- erate size, and reared a large family—9 chil- dren—which was no easy task. How his father and mother endured the hardships at- tendant on making a home in the midst of a primeval forest as they did, is more than he can understand. Mr. Whitney was born on a farm in the town of Ontario, Wayne Co., N. Y., Sept. 23, 1828; passed through the various vicissitudes attendant upon child-life — chicken-pox, mumps, measles, whooping-cough, scarlet- fever, etc., to say nothing of the ague and chill fever. He survived them all, through the faithful care given him by his mother and father. He attended the common school win- ters and summers till about 13, when farm- work was followed during the summer-time. At the age of he went away from home i miles in the winter to school at West Wal- worth Academy, and from there to Macedon, which was an institution of higher grade. He spent several terms at the last institution—in fact, finished his school-days there. He taught school from the time he was 18, more or less, for 10 years; clerked in a dry goods store in Palmyra for a time, and a year in a book-store in Watertown, N. WM. M. WHITNEY He married the eldest daughter of Nelson Clark, a farmer of Le Roy, N. Y., at the age of 33. He moved to Illinois in the spring of 1858, and engaged in mercantile business with a cousin of his wife; elected clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Du Page, 111., in 1860, and held the office 8 years, and was ex-offlcio recorder during the same time. In 18I1S he formed a partnership with
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