Father of our great, great grandfather, Daniel Powers Whiting.
Daniel was the son of William Bradford and Amy Lathrop Whiting. Daniel married Elizabeth Powers in Middletown, Connecticut on January 4, 1804. At the time of their marriage, Daniel was Senior Editor of the Albany Sentinel, Albany, NY.
In 1803, Daniel and Samuel Whiting published the revised "Regulations for the Order and Discipline of US Troops", by Baron de Steuben.
Studied law at Kinderhook, NY with the Hon. Peter Van Schaak. Was for some time Judge of Rensselaer County, NY. As a lawyer practiced at Canaan, Albany and Troy. For a time has was a partner in a book concern in Albany, NY as Backus & Whiting; was also editor of the Albany Daily Sentinel. At the bar he was conversant with Hamilton, Burr, Clinton, Kent, and Spencer.
1834 Daniel Whiting is listed in the New England - New York Law Register as an attorney in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York.
He had the misfortune of an inventor genius, and in consequence was generally poor. Professor Eaton of Troy, introducting him to a party of gentlemen, said: "This is my friend, Daniel Whiting; book-seller, lawyer, judge; as poor as Job and as proud as Lucifer." Chancellor Kent once said to him: "Whiting, if you had applied yourself, you would have been where I am, for you have more brains."
In 1848, due to approaching blindness, Daniel moved to Philadelphia and lived with his daughter, Mary Whiting Brainerd and her husband, Rev.Dr. Thomas Brainerd. During the last nine years of his life, he was totally blind. In this condition and when over eighty years old, he invented an excellent writing machine, and used it constantly for large correspondence.
His conversation was always most attractive and interesting, covering frontier history, the Revolution, and the many prominent people with whom he had been intimately associated in his legal and literary career.
Daniel Whiting died at the age of eighty-seven, after two days' illness, and was buried in the Brainerd family lot, in the ground attached to Old Pine Street Church in Philadelphia.
From:
Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - Montreal / 1948
Life of Rev Thomas Brainerd - For Thirty Years Pastor of Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia
By Mary Whiting Brainerd, Philadelphia / 1870
Father of our great, great grandfather, Daniel Powers Whiting.
Daniel was the son of William Bradford and Amy Lathrop Whiting. Daniel married Elizabeth Powers in Middletown, Connecticut on January 4, 1804. At the time of their marriage, Daniel was Senior Editor of the Albany Sentinel, Albany, NY.
In 1803, Daniel and Samuel Whiting published the revised "Regulations for the Order and Discipline of US Troops", by Baron de Steuben.
Studied law at Kinderhook, NY with the Hon. Peter Van Schaak. Was for some time Judge of Rensselaer County, NY. As a lawyer practiced at Canaan, Albany and Troy. For a time has was a partner in a book concern in Albany, NY as Backus & Whiting; was also editor of the Albany Daily Sentinel. At the bar he was conversant with Hamilton, Burr, Clinton, Kent, and Spencer.
1834 Daniel Whiting is listed in the New England - New York Law Register as an attorney in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York.
He had the misfortune of an inventor genius, and in consequence was generally poor. Professor Eaton of Troy, introducting him to a party of gentlemen, said: "This is my friend, Daniel Whiting; book-seller, lawyer, judge; as poor as Job and as proud as Lucifer." Chancellor Kent once said to him: "Whiting, if you had applied yourself, you would have been where I am, for you have more brains."
In 1848, due to approaching blindness, Daniel moved to Philadelphia and lived with his daughter, Mary Whiting Brainerd and her husband, Rev.Dr. Thomas Brainerd. During the last nine years of his life, he was totally blind. In this condition and when over eighty years old, he invented an excellent writing machine, and used it constantly for large correspondence.
His conversation was always most attractive and interesting, covering frontier history, the Revolution, and the many prominent people with whom he had been intimately associated in his legal and literary career.
Daniel Whiting died at the age of eighty-seven, after two days' illness, and was buried in the Brainerd family lot, in the ground attached to Old Pine Street Church in Philadelphia.
From:
Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - Montreal / 1948
Life of Rev Thomas Brainerd - For Thirty Years Pastor of Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia
By Mary Whiting Brainerd, Philadelphia / 1870
Family Members
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William Whiting
1758–1759
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Abigail Whiting Warner
1759–1810
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Nancy Anne Whiting Tiffany
1762–1830
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Deacon John Whiting
1764–1844
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William Bradford Whiting Jr
1766–1810
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Hannah Whiting
1770–1781
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Deacon Nathan Whiting
1772–1848
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Samuel Whiting
1776–1834
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Harriet Whiting Backus
1779–1804
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Charles Whiting
1783–1783
