Background
Whitney, Henry Mitchell was born on January 16, 1843 in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Josiah Dwight and Clarissa (James) Whitney.
Whitney, Henry Mitchell was born on January 16, 1843 in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Josiah Dwight and Clarissa (James) Whitney.
Brother of James Lyman West. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1864, Master of Arts, 1867. Sergeant major 52d Massachusetts Volumes, 1862-1863.
Agent United States Christian Commission in Virginia, 1864-1865. Student Princeton Theological Seminary, 1865-1866.
Graduate Andover Theological Seminary, 1868.
(Doctor of Letters, Beloit College, 1900).
Ordained Congleton ministry, 1869. Pastor Geneva, Illinois, 1868-1871. Professor of English literature, Beloit (Wisconsin) College, 1871-1899.
Librarian, James Blackstone Memorial Library, since 1899.
Pastor Beloit, 1871-1872, Roscoe, Illinois, 1876-1882. Alderman, Beloit, 1876-1883.
Trustee Beloit Savings Bank, 1880-1889. Joint Author: Columbian History of Education in Wisconsin.
History of the Fifty-second Massachusetts Regiment.
Twentieth Century New Testament. Etc. Home: Branford. Connecticut
Married Frances Wurts, August 3, 1869.