Person:Theodore Train (1)

Archives: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1910). Google Books

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Page 13 "Theodore Train, only son of Seth Dunbar and Adeline Dutton (Train) Whitney, was born in Milton, Massachusetts, April 26, 1846. He married (first) in Framingham, Massachusetts, October 6, 1880, Annie Caroline Mann; children: 1. Theodore Train, born in Carondelet, Missouri, July 22, 1881. 2. Seth Dunbar, born Lakewood, New Jersey, March 17, 1883, died March 30, 1885. 3. Mary Adeline, born April 13, 1885. 4. Annie Leslie, born July 9, 1887. 5. Elinor, born December 27, 1889. The mother of these children died January 30, 1893. Mr. Whitney married (second) April 17, 1895, Minnie S. Kerr, of St. Joseph, Missouri, born January 4, 1868, daughter of Andrew L. and Mary W. (Inslee) Kerr. "

Secretary's Third Report By Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1906 Published by Crimson Printing Co., 1906 Original from Harvard University Digitized Jun 4, 2008 530 pages

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THEODORE TRAIN WHITNEY, Jr. Born St. Louis, Mo., July 22, 1881. Parents Theodore Train Whitney, Annie C. Mann. School Milton Academy, Milton, Mass. Years in College 1902-1905. Degrees A.B., 1906. Occupation Banker. Address (home) 133 Adams St., Milton, Mass, (business) 147 Milk St., Boston, Mass. .... "This writing of a life history seems to be as painful a proceeding as writing a theme for English A on the steps of "Sever" five minutes before it was due in the box at Room 21. Not being married, I find that the life of a bachelor after ten years out can be recorded by ditto marks. To ditto the history already reported, it seems that the statements appearing in the second report of the class in June, 1912, are still substantially correct, being as follows: After my junior year I left college, taking my degree in 1906. I have been with Stone and Webster for six and a half years. The winter of 1907-1908 was spent in Chicago as a salesman of the green-goods in the territory west of the Mississippi River. The spring of 1908, however, brought me back to Boston, still on the financial end of the business. During the winter of 1910 and until July of that year I managed the New York office, then Boston again became the attraction. I have visited no foreign countries." "Bean Town", in the employ of Stone and Webster, continues to be the magnetic pole and, except for a few slips here and there at varying radii and distances from this centre, it still seems my lot to continue a "bean eater". Outside of business, some experience has been gathered in the field of politics and in soldiering. As a chairman of the Warrant Committee in 1915 and as chairman of the Water Commissioners in. 1916 in the town of Milton, and as a private at Plattsburg, it has been found that there is as much fun in thinking you are running the affairs of a town, or learning to be as tough as a "regular", as it was in thinking that you had smeared an exam., even if the final mark did not come up to your expectation. Member: University Club of Chicago, Harvard Club of New York, Underwriters' Club of New York, Exchange Club of Boston, Tennis and Racquet Club of Boston, Harvard Club of Boston, Milton Club of Milton."

1.   William Cutter. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts. (N.p.: Lewis Historical Publishing Co.,, 1910.)
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