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	Biographical History for Isaac W. Whitney
		Whitney, who is at present one of the township trustees for Franklin County --- from the township of Springfield --- was born in Metamora Township, Franklin County, Indiana, November 17, 1846, and was reared to farm labor, receiving a good common school education.
		Asa T. Whitney, the father of Isaac W., of this review, was born January 20, 1823, and was reared on his father's forest farm.
		Asa Whitney's children were: William, of Arcola, Illinois; Isaac W., the subject of this sketch; Jerry H., of Fairfield Township; and John K., at the homestead.
	www.countyhistory.com /books/doc.fayet/252.htm (1042 words)

	Empire Express
		Whitney, a seasoned voyager, suffered from seasickness for the first time in his life, to which was added sleeplessness, rheumatism, his plague of boils, and growing dismay at the behavior of his only social companion, Captain Eyre.
		Asa Whitney, with no previous experience and having nothing but his faith and self-assurance to tell him he was not pursuing a chimera, began to outline how he would get a railroad across the vast, uninhabited middle of the American continent to the Pacific shores, where the lure of Asia beckoned, within reach.
		Whitney's attention was first called to the importance of railroads as a means for the transportation of commerce as well as of passengers as early as 1830, he recalled later.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/bain-empire.html (4803 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays: The Iron Horse: The impact of the railroads on 19th century American ...
		Whitney said he could raise sufficient funds to pay expenses for construction by selling off this land as the road was being built.
		Whitney shrewdly indicated that the building of the railroad would drive the "savage" Sioux and their buffalo northward: "and we can then succeed in bringing the removed and small tribes to habits of industry and civilization, and their race may be preserved until mixed and blended with ours, and the Sioux must soon follow them".
		Only Asa Whitney remembered them, and his main concern was to nullify their land titles and then either force them to become like white men or drive them out of the way.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/E/ironhorse/ironhorse6.htm (909 words)

	Asa Whitney - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Whitney, Asa (1797-1872), American railroad promoter born in North Groton, Connecticut.
		Whitney, Mount, mountain, eastern California, a peak of the Sierra Nevada.
		Whitney, Eli (1765-1825), American inventor, best known for his invention of the cotton gin.
	encarta.msn.com /Asa_Whitney.html (131 words)

	American Experience \| Transcontinental Railroad \| People & Events
		Born to a family of of prominent farmers and manufacturers (Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, was a distant cousin), young Asa Whitney displayed ambition in business.
		Whitney's optimism was overly idealistic but in accordance with his times.
		And in 1845 Senator Zadock Pratt introduced the Memorial of Asa Whitney to legislators, calling for construction of a railroad west from Lake Michigan.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/e_early.html (753 words)

	The Railroad, part 12
		Asa Whitney, back in 1844, was one of those enterprising men who envisioned a railroad, stretching across the United States from ocean to ocean.
		Whitney did not see the main impediment to this railroad as being mountains to be crossed or the vast empty prairies, nor the unstoppable extremes of nature as detouring obstacles.
		Well, Whitney was in error as to the landscape or the weather causing major problems, but he was certainly correct concerning the Indians.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/great_american_plains/109181/1 (455 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Asa
		Asa, in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah.
		In 1845, Asa Whitney presented to Congress a plan for the federal government to subsidize the building of a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific.
		ASA International Ltd. and CompuTrac, Inc. Agree to the Merger of CompuTrac with RainMaker Software, Inc., a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of ASA International.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Asa (603 words)

	The Origin of the Idea for a Pacific Railroad.
		This was the first result of the labours of Asa Whitney, a New York merchant, who had become an enthusiast on the subject of a Pacific railroad.
		Whitney read of the wonderful experiments in railroad building in England, and began at once to reflect upon the enormous changes the new invention made possible.
		Whitney and others we are able to see now what bitter disappointment was in store for the enthusiast who pinned his faith to the traffic of the Orient.
	cprr.org /Museum/Warman1.html (1057 words)

	Asa Whitney (1791-1874) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1840 he received a patent for a steam locomotive and from 1842 to 1846 he was in partnership with Mattias Baldwin, a locomotive builder in Philadelphia.
		WHITNEY, Asa, inventor, was born in Townsend, Mass., Dec. 1, 1791.
		His father was a flsmith, and Asa followed that trade until 1812, when he removed to New Hampshire and was employed in a machine shop.
	www.whitneygen.org /archives/biography/asa1.html (417 words)

	Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Asa Whitney, a New York merchant who had made a fortune in the Orient, realized that the transcontinental railroad was the key to both Asiatic trade and settlement of the trans-Mississippi region.
		Both Whitney and Benton were in love with the West and agreed about the importance of Asiatic trade to the future development and grandeur of the United States.
		Douglas argued that individual farmers were the source of westward development, while Whitney maintained that from a commercial point of view, the isolated western farmers did not really exist, insofar as they were not incorporated into the larger economic exchange of goods and services.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/HNS2/c2.html (543 words)

	Old World Auctions - Lot Detail
		The map, engraved by O.H. Throop, was issued for Whitney's report to the 29th Congress in 1846.
		Asa Whitney was one of the first backers of an American Transcontinental Railway.
		It was as early as 1830 that Whitney first became enthralled with railroads and foresaw their future role in business and transport.
	www.oldworldauctions.com /detail.asp?lotno=139 (233 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
		By forty-five years of age Whitney had buried two wives and a child and lost all his considerable worldly possessions, and now he had started life anew.
		Asa Whitney buried her beside his first wife and in his grief turned to face the courts.
		Whitney had little sympathy for the British and their imperial ways.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/empireexpress.htm (4803 words)

	Asa Whitney (1797-1872) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In a preface 'to the people of the United States', Asa Whitney explains that he is about to describe the results of 7 years of research into the building of a railroad across the Continent.
		Asa Whitney's railroad scheme, [Microform] [Washington] : Buell & Blanchard, printers, [1851], "To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled."
		United States, Congress, House, Select committee on the memorial of Asa Whitney relative to the construction of a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean, Railroad to Oregon...
	www.whitneygen.org /archives/biography/asa2.html (517 words)

	History of Triangle, New York
		That the township forged rapidly to the front may be determined from the fact that in 1830 not less than 1,000 people lived in the part of Lisle set apart to be the township of Triangle the following year.
		To Thomas Whitney and William Whitney, who came to Triangle in 1802, belongs the honor of establishing the village nucleus of Whitney Point.
		One of the first projects in which Thomas Whitney led the way was the construction of a bridge across the Tioughnioga river.
	history.rays-place.com /ny/triangle-ny.htm (839 words)

	Whitney Obituaries in the Columbian Centinel, 1784 to 1840 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Whitney Obituaries in the Columbian Centinel, 1784 to 1840
		Whitney, Betsey,(Mrs.), wife of Capt. Asa Whitney and dau.
		Whitney, Sarah (Mrs.), wife of Elijah Whitney and sister of Hon.
	www.gentree.com /whitney/whitobit.htm (846 words)

	AllRefer.com - Asa Whitney, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Asa Whitney 1797–1872, American merchant and transcontinental railroad projector, b.
		Upon his return, he toured (1844–51) the United States, carrying on an extensive publicity campaign urging the construction of a railroad from Chicago to the Pacific; he also petitioned (1845) Congress to support his plan.
		Whitney's proposed route from Lake Michigan through South Pass to the Pacific was not accepted mainly because of the growing sectionalism before the Civil War.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WhitnyA.html (290 words)

	Asa Whitney of Watertown & Mashfield, . MA & Jay, ME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jay, ME Asa Whitney's line is: (Jonathan (2014), Jonathan 825, Joseph 291, Benjamin 92, Joseph 16, John 3, John 1]
		# 4235 Asa Whitney was the s/o Jonathan & Lucy (Parks) Whitney.
		Asa Whitney m on 15 Nov 1825, Rhoda Blaisdell d/o John Drew & Olive (Horsum) Blaisdell.
	members.aol.com /itigapa/asaw.html (61 words)

	Brackett, Herbert I. (History - 1859) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His father was a native of the north of Ireland and came to this country when a young man, serving several years in the Continental army of the war of the Revolution.
		The maternal grandmother of Herbert I. Brackett was Hannah Whitney she was born at Gorham, Maine, in 1794, and became the wife of Seth Brown.
		Asa Whitney, her husband, served as Major in a Massachusetts regiment in the Continental Army, and her father and two brothers were also soldiers in the same army.
	wvls.lib.wi.us /ClarkCounty/clark/data/bios/998.htm (592 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for ASA
		Jolson, Al, 1888-1950, American entertainer, whose original name was Asa Yoelson, b.
		ASK ASA: ASK asa changes corporate name to Ask Proxima ASA.
		ASA Tire Systems and SonicWALL Bring Secure Remote Connectivity To Tire Retailers Nationwide.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=ASA&StartAt=1 (603 words)

	"Memorial of Asa Whitney Praying for a Grant of Land to Enable Him to Construct a Railroad from Lake Michigan to ...
		"Memorial of Asa Whitney Praying for a Grant of Land to Enable Him to Construct a Railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean." 1848.
		^ MEMORIAL OF ASA WHITNEY, PRATING For a grant of land to enable him to construct a railroad from lake Michi gan to the Pacific ocean.
		During the summer of 1845 your memorialist, with a company of young-men from different States, explored and examined a part of the proposed route.
	cprr.org /Museum/Reports/pictures/capture_00076.html (2397 words)

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		Chief promoter of a transcontinental railroad was Asa Whitney, a New York merchant active in the China trade who was obsessed with the idea of a railroad to the Pacific.
		Whitney suggested the use of Irish and German immigrant labor, which was in great abundance at the time.
		The failure of Congress to act on Whitney's proposal was mainly due to the vigorous opposition of Sen.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrintro.html (4835 words)

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		The first school board was composed of Asa Whitney, Emoric Chase and W. Evans.
		The first school was held in a log cabin on the Asa Whitney farm.
		Asa Whitney and Miss Helen S. Miller (Arnold) who was the grandmother of Mrs.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/woodson/Byron.txt (301 words)

	California Gold Rush Stories: Becoming California
		Asa Whitney saw a transcontinental railroad as a part of expanding trade with China.
		In 1845, while James Marshall's famous bit of gold was still tumbling downstream in the American River, Whitney proposed a railroad with tracks from the Great Lakes to the Oregon coast.
		It would cost the federal government $200 million to build the line, Whitney said, but he had a plan.
	www.ncgold.com /History/BecomingCA_Archive19.html (749 words)

	Policy Review, December 1999 & January 2000 -- Rails of Progress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Whitney’s story, this story, is more than a profile in naiveté.
		Whitney saw the value of a railroad from ocean to ocean.
		Whitney failed to consider what to a smart legislator like Benton was obvious: There was a lot of money to be made in all things associated with this new railroad.
	www.policyreview.org /dec99/bowden.html (2662 words)

	CHAPTER TWO
		This crusader was Asa Whitney, a New York merchant of New England origins who, after failing in business in the Panic of 1837 went out to the Orient as a mercantile agent and returned in 1844 with a fortune which gave him a comfortable income for the rest of his life.
		The audacity of the proposal-he asked for a tract of land sixty miles wide throughout the distance to be traversed by his road-together with the spectacular publicity campaign he conducted aroused an interest which temporarily obscured the impractical nature of his scheme.
		Yet Whitney was right in insisting that the railroad must be the technological basis both for the Asiatic trade and for large scale settlement in the trans-Mississippi.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/HNS/chapter2.html (5093 words)

	Asa - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The son of Abijah, Asa removed the idols that had been introduced after the Egyptian conquest of Judah following...
		Gray, Asa (1810-1888), American botanist, famous for his manual of plants.
		Born in Sauquoit, near Utica, New York, he graduated from a medical...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/SRPage.aspx?search=Asa (114 words)

	ASA Member Tracks
		The 0.375-mile paved oval, situated on the grounds of the Douglas County Fairgrounds, had been managed for the past several years by the fairgrounds itself, but they decided that the time was right to leave that to others.
		While at Chaparral Speedway he booked some of the ASA Regional Racing tours and had interaction with Huth and other ASA officials and began to get a feel for what the program offered.
		In fact, the Nelson’s were twice named the ASA Northwest Sprint Tour “Promoter of the Year,” in 2003 and again in 2005.
	www.asaracing.com /trackstory.asp?StoryID=208842 (883 words)

	New Zealand Cartridge Collectors Club Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Ballance then Minister of Defence, and Sir George Whitmore, consulted Captain Whitney as to the possibility of manufacturing ammunition in the colony, and Captain Whitney agreed to undertake to supply military cartridges of a serviceable quality if sufficient inducement were offered to encourage him to start in such a costly undertaking.
		As powder was most difficult to obtain until the supplies cabled for arrived, and as they had to commence the manufacture with the most unsuitable material, Captain Whitney and his sons laboured inconsequence of the Government's stipulation, under the most serious disadvantages; but, nevertheless the succeed in six months in commencing delivering cartridges.
		At this stage, Captain Whitney, with a view to the future requirements of the colony, knowing the quality of ammunition could be improved, and having obtained the consent of the New Zealand government, proceeded to England with Captain Asa Whitney to purchase the very best machinery of the Imperial Government pattern, and engage skilled labour.
	www.equusplazanz.com /nzccc/cac/cac2.html (277 words)

	Asa Whitney
		In 1844 Asa Whitney envisioned a railroad, stretching across the United States from ocean to ocean and began seeking possible routes that would reach from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Coast.
		Before Congress he proposes such a railroad, asked for a vast land grant, and assures Congress that the Indians will be of no concern.
		The Union Pacific is given until July 1, 1876, to reach the western boundary of Nevada Territory, and God help anyone, white or red, who stands in its way.
	www.suite101.com /reference/asa_whitney (107 words)

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