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	WHITNEY, E. - LoveToKnow Article on WHITNEY, E. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		WHITNEY, JOSIAH DWIGHT (1819-1896), American geologist, was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, on the 23rd of November iSiq.
		WHITNEY, WILLIAM COLLINS (1841-1904), American political leader and financier, was born at Conway, Massachusetts, on the i5th of July 1841, of Puritan stock.
		He was the fourth child and the second surviving son of Josiah Dwight Whitney, a banker, and Sarah Williston, daughter of the Rev. Payson Williston (1763-1856) of Easthampton, Mass., and a sister of Samuel Williston ^795-1874), founder of Williston Seminary at Easthampton.
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	WHITNEY, J. D. - LoveToKnow Article on WHITNEY, J. D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		WHITNEY, ELI (1765-1825), American inventor, was born on a farm in Westboro, Massachusetts, on the 8th of December 1765, He exhibited unusual mechanical ability at an early age and earned a considerable part of his expenses at Yale College, where he graduated in 1792.
		The construction by Whitney of several ingenious household contrivances led Mrs Greene to introduce him to some gentlemen who were discussing the desirability of a machine to separate the short staple upland cotton from its seeds, work which was then done by hand at the rate of a pound of lint a day.
		Whitney spent much time and money prosecuting infringements of his patent, and in 1807 its validity was finally settled.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WH/WHITNEY_J_D_.htm (1235 words)

	WHITSIDE, JAMES - LoveToKnow Article on WHITSIDE, JAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To the general public Whitney is best known through his popular works on the science of language and his labors as a lexicographer.
		The former are, perhaps, the most widely read of all English books on the subject, and have merited their popularity through the soundness of the views which they present and the lucidity of their style.1 His most important service to lexicography was his guidance, as editor-in-chief, of the work on The Century Dictionary (1889-1891).
		Apart from the permanent value of his contributions to philology, Whitney is notable for the great and stimulating influence which he exerted throughout his life upon the development of American scholarship.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WH/WHITSIDE_JAMES.htm (1724 words)

	Mount Whitney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mount Whitney was named after Josiah Whitney, the chief geologist of California.
		Mount Whitney is less than 90 miles from the lowest point of the United States, in Death Valley, and immediately rises just over 2 miles (~3300 m) in elevation above the floor of the Owens Valley.
		The Badwater Ultramarathon is a 135 mile (215 km) running race from the bottom of Death Valley and ending at an elevation of 8360 feet (2548 m) at Whitney Portal, the trailhead for Mount Whitney.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Whitney (646 words)

	JOSIAH DWIGHT WHITNEY AND THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		After he graduated from Yale in 1839, Josiah Dwight Whitney was studying for the law when he heard Lyell's lectures on geology in Boston and decided to become a geologist instead.
		Whitney and his assistants climbed and measured the heights of many of California's highest moiuntains, and developed methods of topographical surveying by triangulation that were widely adopted by other states as well as the USGS.
		Whitney thought the valley had been formed when the bottom of the valley dropped during a series of "convulsive" upheavals of the mountain chain.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_42256.htm (395 words)

	My Elusive Josiah Whitney, II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Josiah was born in Eastham, MA Nov. 7, 1741.
		Josiah Whitney next appears in the Vital Records of Boston, MA, where his marriage to Hannah Turner is recorded Jan. 24, 1771 in Brookline.
		Josiah and his son Eliab can be found in the 1818 Census of Cape Breton Island living in Ship Harbor, Gut of Canso.
	www.whitneygen.org /misc/reunion2004/josiah2.html (1272 words)

	Existing Glaciers of Mount Shasta
		The seven glaciers recognized by the USGS are Whitney Glacier, Bolam Glacier, Hotlum Glacier, Wintun Glacier, Watkins Glacier, Konwakiton Glacier, and Mud Creek Glacier.
		Whitney and William Brewer of the Whitney Survey explored the mountain in 1862, prior to King's expedition (Russell, 1885; Farquhar, 1923; Hill, 1975; Biles, 1989).
		Whitney Glacier, named after the geologist Josiah Dwight Whitney, is the longest glacier in California (Rhodes, 1987; Biles, 1989) and the one which most resembles glaciers in the Alps (Thompson, 1882; Diller, 1895), being the only true valley glacier on Mount Shasta.
	www.siskiyous.edu /shasta/env/glacial/exi.htm (2231 words)

	Studies in the Sierra by John Muir
		Whitney was at the peak of his fame, recognized as one of the leading geologists in America, with an exceptional education acquired in America and Europe under the tutelage of outstanding scientists of the world.
		Whitney, proud and sensitive by nature, must have been galled beyond expression when, on his Yosemite visits and meetings with the Yosemite State Commission, of which he was chairman he was told, as must frequently have been the case, that this recently arrived and comparatively unknown stripling, was boldly questioning his carefully thought-out explanation.
		Josiah Dwight Whitney, 1819-1896, a distinguished American geologist who, prior to his becoming the Chief Geologist of the California Geological Survey, was connected with official geological surveys in the states of New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
	www.sierraclub.org /john_muir_exhibit/writings/studies_in_the_sierra/introduction.html (7474 words)

	Josiah Dwight Whitney Biography / Biography of Josiah Dwight Whitney Biography Biography
		Josiah Dwight Whitney was born in Northampton, Mass., on Nov. 23, 1819, the son of a local banker.
		In 1847 Jackson engaged Whitney to assist in a survey of the mineral lands of the upper peninsula of Michigan.
		Whitney was a member of the American Philosophical Society and a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences; he was the fourth American to be elected a foreign member of the Geological Society of London.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-josiah-dwight-whitney (569 words)

	Josiah Whitney -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Josiah Dwight Whitney (November 23,1819-August 15,1896) was a professor of (A science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks) geology at (A university in Massachusetts) Harvard University (from 1865), and was chief of the (Click link for more info and facts about California Geological Survey) California Geological Survey (1860-1874).
		Whitney is probably best known for his scientific feud with (United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)) John Muir.
		Whitney concluded that (Click link for more info and facts about Yosemite Valley) Yosemite Valley was a (Click link for more info and facts about graben) graben, a downdropped block of land.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/josiah_whitney.htm (258 words)

	Octavo Editions: Whitney Yosemite Book
		Josiah Dwight Whitney’s Yosemite Book is the most spectacular record of the most celebrated scenic valley in the world.
		California’s first State Geologist, Whitney was one of the commissioners appointed to oversee the Yosemite Valley when it was set aside as a park in perpetuity by the government in 1864, as part of a Congressional Act that marked the beginning of the American system of national parks.
		Whitney also supervised much of the early scientific exploration of the Sierra Nevada, from 1860 until the Geological Survey was disbanded in 1874.
	secure.octavo.com /editions/wtnyos (748 words)

	Guide to the Eli Whitney Papers (Manuscript Group Number 554) : Finding Aid
		Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, the son of Eli and Elizabeth (Fay) Whitney.
		Whitney's mechanical ingenuity and inventive capacity had been so thoroughly demonstrated, and his reputation for character was so high, that he had no difficulty in finding ten individuals in New Haven to go his bond and furnish the initial capital for the new undertaking.
		Whitney's brother Josiah, a Boston merchant, is a frequent correspondent, and with him Whitney discussed the general business climate as well as matters relating to the shipment of cotton and details concerning their sister Elizabeth and her children.
	webtext.library.yale.edu /xml2html/mssa.0554.con.html (3642 words)

	Beloit College Archives -- Archives Collections -- Beloit Faculty -- Katherine Bill Whitney
		Whitney was appointed temporary dean of women in 1930 and soon became acting dean.
		After teaching in Illinois a year, she was married to Josiah Dwight Whitney III on Nov. 12, 1902.
		Whitney visited relatives and former students in the East this summer and, since late July, was in Berkeley staying with the family of a daughter, Mrs.
	www.beloit.edu /~libhome/Archives/acoll/alum/kwhitney.html (381 words)

	Josiah Dwight Whitney
		During 1858-'60 Professor Whitney was engaged on a geological survey of the lead region of the upper Missouri in connection with the official surveys of Wisconsin and Illinois, publishing, with James Hall, a "Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Wisconsin" (Albany, 1862).
		Professor Whitney was one of the original members of the National academy of sciences named by act of congress in 1863, but he has since withdrawn from that body.
		Professor Whitney ranks as one of the foremost Sanskrit scholars of his time, and his text-books have been awarded high praise for their exact statements of general grammatical doctrine.
	www.famousamericans.net /josiahdwightwhitney (996 words)

	Southern New York
		John Whitney purchased a sixteen acre homestall which had been granted to John Strickland, who had been dismissed from the Watertown church, May 29, 1635, and was one of that colony to remove and plant Wethersfield, Connecticut.
		John Whitney was admitted freeman, March 3, 1635-36, was appointed constable of Watertown, June 1, 1641, by the general court, selectman, 1638, to 1655 inclusive, and town clerk, 1655.
		Whitney was a Mason, a member of the Universalist Church, and a member of the Fort Orange and Albany clubs.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_54.htm (4400 words)

	Glaciers of California: CHAPTER FOUR
		Josiah D. Whitney thought Yosemite Valley was formed by down-dropping of a large block of rock between faults, and that glaciers were of no importance at all.
		Whitney was a professional geologist, graduate of a fine university, a respected scientist, and a responsible state geologist.
		The underlying idea of Whitney's hypothesis was, it should be added in all fairness, not so absurd as some of his opponents have intimated, for there are many well-authenticated instances of valleys that have been created by the subsidence of blocks of the earth's crust.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8119/8119.ch04.html (6446 words)

	Rex's Mt. Whitney Trip Report
		Whitney holds many titles, it's the highest peak in California, the Sierra Nevadas, and also it's the highest mountain in the continental United States.
		Whitney was first climbed in 1873 by 3 fisherman from Lone Pine, CA who named the peak Fisherman's Peak.
		The Mt. Whitney adventure first began by flying into Las Vegas to pick up my brother Ryan who would be joining me for the climb.
	www.geocities.com /rexhighpoints2/whitney/trip.html (1897 words)

	Whitney Research Group - Josiah Whitney - Most Wanted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The age of Josiah WHITNEY of Chelmsford and Willington requires that he belong to the third or fourth generation of descendants of John
		If Josiah WHITNEY of Chelmsford and Willington was another son of Benjamin, his age would dictate that his mother was Jane rather than Mary.
		For example, it seems much more likely that Josiah WHITNEY was born nearer 1683 than 1688, because of the age of his wife and his likely age at the birth of his oldest child.
	www.whitneygen.org /families/unconnw/josiahw.html (1177 words)

	Whitney
		Whitney is not Everest and a serious mountaneer would laugh and climb it after Thanksgiving dinner to get some air.
		The pinnacle furthest south from Whitney is named for John Muir, the man most responsible for the preservation of America's wilderness (Whitney is named for Josiah Dwight Whitney, California's first state geologist).
		Unlike the pinnacles to the south, the Whitney summit is very spacious, easily a few acres in size, and includes a small stone hut which was built by the Smithsonian Institution in 1923 for weather observations.
	www.richardgingras.com /treks/whitney (2270 words)

	COON-KUHN - STEADMAN Connections
		Josiah WHITE was christened in 1654 in Mass.
		Josiah WHITE and Remember REED were married on 29 Dec 1680 in Salem Village,, MA.
		Eleanor WHITNEY was born on 23 Jul 1740 in Dunstable, Mdsx Co., MA.
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	Mount Whitney
		Mount Whitney is in the Sierra Nevada, and is the highest peak in the lower 48 states.
		Whitney is the most frequently climbed peak in the Sierra Nevada.
		Viewpoint: Mt. Whitney cannot be seen from the west, because it is on the east side of the Great Western Divide, the chain of mountains that runs north/south through the center of Sequoia National Park, dividing the watersheds of the Kaweah River to the west and the Kern River to the east.
	bivouac.com /MtnPg.asp?MtnId=9063 (590 words)

	The Yosemite Book, by Josiah D. Whitney
		In 1860 Whitney was appointed state geologist of California in 1860.
		Whitney would have none of that and conducted a thorough scientific survey of the state.
		Whitney thought Yosemite Valley was formed not by glaciers but "the bottom of the Valley sank down.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /history/the_yosemite_book (962 words)

	History of Mt. Ritter
		Josiah Whitney, the great American geographer after whom Mt.
		Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states, is named, studied geography in Berlin and learned of the science of modern geography from Karl (Carl) Ritter.
		As Whitney's team mapped the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, they chose to honor his mentor by naming one of the ranges of the eastern Sierra and its highest peak after Karl Ritter
	www.mtritter.org /bigmtrit.html (1248 words)

	COON-KUHN - STEADMAN Connections
		Josiah WHITNEY was born on 11 Aug 1731 in Plainfield, Windham Co., CT.
		Solomon WHITNEY was born in 1733 in Plainfield, Windham Co., CT.
		Josiah WHITTLESEY was born on 17 Feb 1733/34 in Newington, Hartford Co., CT.
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	CRSQ Abstracts, Volume 15, Number 3
		Josiah Dwight Whitney lived from 1819 until 1896, and was state geologist from 1865 until 1882.
		The Table Mountain lava on each side of the Stanislaus River at Abbey's Ferry was of recent origin, as is shown by fossils under the volcanic mass.
		Whitney's opinion that John Muir was wrong in his thinking that the valley was formed by erosion by ice, whereas in fact there is no proof that glaciers ever occupied the valley, is also very interesting.
	www.creationresearch.org /crsq/abstracts/sum15_3.html (706 words)

	Mt. Whitney History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Clarence King, a member of that same party, claimed that he was the first to reach the 14,497-foot summit of Mt. Whitney in the summer of 1871.
		Whitney sits proudly among the magnificent spires of the massif that surrounds it and most certainly impressed Muir has he made his way up to the top.
		On August 3, 1878, the first women to reach the summit of Mt. Whitney were members of a party of climbers from Porterville, California, in nearby Tulare County.
	www.highpointadventures.com /GO_California.htm (619 words)

	Geologist Bill Guyton Publishes Glaciers of California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In one very interesting chapter, Guyton presents the debate between professional geologist Josiah D. Whitney, a university graduate and respected scientist, and John Muir, a vagabond with no university credentials who did not claim to be a professional scientist.
		Whitney believed Yosemite Valley was formed by the down-dropping of a large block of rock between faults, and that glaciers were of no importance.
		Whitney was apparently confused by the fact that thick lake deposits obscured the true U- shape of the lake.
	www.csuchico.edu /pub/inside/archive/98_12_03/top_story2.html (502 words)

	The Museum Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Whitney was at that time America's foremost metallurgist, chemist and geologist, and he put together a group of college-trained scientists to investigate every physical aspect of the state.
		It was the Whitney survey which urged President Lincoln to protect the Yosemite Valley as a park in 1864, and their 1865 report mentioned tourism as a potential industry for California.
		The Whitney survey completely mapped the Sierras, but ended in 1868 when the state cut off funds.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/Gazettes/GSurveys.htm (1607 words)

	california
		Whitney got from Hubbs a detailed written account of the discovery, which occurred in the Valentine Shaft, south of Shaw’s Flat.
		Whitney, was given artifacts and a skull that the miners said were found several hundred feet below beneath Table Mountain in Tertiary, gold-bearing gravels that they were mining.
		Whitney, as far as I can tell, was not opposed in principle to the concept of evolution.
	www.mcremo.com /california.html (11031 words)

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