Person:John Whittemore (8)

Census 1930, Utica, Oneida County, NY: Whittmore, Myron - Head - Owns, $12,000 - has Radio - not Farm - Male - White - Age 34 - Married at 24 - Born (& both parents) New York - Teacher, Public school - Worker, Employed - Veteran, W[orld] W[ar 1] " Natali - Wife - Female - White - Age 40 - Married at 30 - Born (& both parents) New York " JOHN - Son - Male - White - Age 3 7/12 - Born New York

Census 1940, Rome, Oneida County, NY: Whittemore, Myron - Head - Male - White - Age 44 - Education, 4 yrs College - Born New York - 1935 residence, Same house - At work, 40 hrs/wk - Instructor, High school - Worked 42 wks, Earned $2600 " Natalie - Wife - Female - White - Age 50 - Education, 4 yrs college - Born New York " John - Son - Male - White - Age 12 - At school, grade 8 - Born New York

Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, 25 Dec 1999: BINGHAMTON CHURCH GIVES UNION MAN GIFT OF SPEECH Computerized device returns what Lou Gehrig's disease took away. A Town of Union man received a special gift from a Binghamton church this holiday season. His voice. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease, has robbed John G. Whittemore, 73, of his ability to move and stilled his speech. The progressive, fatal neuromuscular disease causes paralysis, trapping a perfect mind in a failing body. And

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Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, 7 Jan 2000: ENDWELL MAN WHO RECEIVED GIFT OF SPEECH FROM CHURCH DIES FROM ILLNESS For the last few months of his life John G. Whittemore could neither move nor speak. But the gift of a computerized voice device enabled him to express his thoughts and feelings to his family and friends before he died of Lou Gehrig's disease on Tuesday at his Endwell home. He was 73. The device, loaned by the Mission Committee of the First Presbyterian Church of Binghamton, enabled Mr. Whittemore to communicate by transferring his thoughts

FindAGrave.com: John Giles Whittemore / birth 1926 / death Jan. 4, 2000 / husband of Claus, Ethel / burial, Rome Cemetery, Rome, Oneida County, NY

1. ↑ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).
2. ↑ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).

   last residence, Endicott, Broome County NY

3. ↑ (Obituary)
   Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, 7 Jan 2000:.

   For the last few months of his life John G. Whittemore could neither move nor speak. ... he died of Lou Gehrig's disease on Tuesday at his Endwell home.

4. ↑ John Giles Whittemore [1], in Find A Grave.

   John Giles Whittemore / birth 1926 / death Jan. 4, 2000 / husband of Claus, Ethel / burial, Rome Cemetery, Rome, Oneida County, NY