1816.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WHITTLESEY died in Brooklyn, N. T.,
Nov. 5, 1866, aged 70 years.
He was the son of Matthew Beale and Hannah (White)
Whittlesey, and was born in Danbury, Conn., July 14,1796.
After leaving College he taught for one year at Wallabout,
now a part of East Brooklyn, L. I. In 1818 he went to Canfield,O.,
where for three years he was a student at law with
his uncle, Hon. Elisha Whittlesey. Shortly after his admission
to the bar, he removed to Marietta, 0., and here he resided
until his death. For twelve years, from 1825 to 1837, he was
Auditor of Washington County. In 1839 he was elected to
the Ohio General Assembly, and in 1848-50, was a member of
Congress from his District. He declined a reelection in 1850.
He was married Oct. 25, 1838, to Miss Jane Hobby, of
Washington Co. She, with the youngest of their three children,
survives him.
