San Joaquin County
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WILLIAM E. WHIPPLE
WILLIAM E. WHIPPLE, farmer,
of Elliott Township, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 13, 1844, his
parents being Edwin and Mrs. (Lewis) Whipple; the father a native of New
Hampshire, and his mother of Vermont. When he was one year old his mother died,
and his grandmother, who was residing in Stansted County, Canada, came and took
him back with her to Canada, where he lived until twenty-one years of age.
In the year 1865 he came to California and
joined his father, who had come in 1849, and encountered all the hardships of
pioneer life in California. In 1850 he (the father) took up a fine piece of
river-bottom land on the Mokelumne river, where he lived until his death, in
1885. Our subject, William E., being his only child, fell heir to the old
homestead, which contains 257 acres and is situated on the Stockton road one
mile from Clements. He is one of our prosperous farmers of San Joaquin County,
and is well known and respected by all.
He was united in marriage to Miss Lucy
Putnam, on the first of January, 1878. They have four children, three boys and
one girl, viz: Edwin A., George B., Nellie and William A., Jr.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 571. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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