Joel Emmons WHITNEY

Father: Joel WHITNEY
Mother: Sally DYER

Family 1: Elsie Parish AYER

(1) Minnesota, Marriages Index via Ancestry.com

  1. Mabel WHITNEY
  2. Samuel Willey WHITNEY
  3. Wallace WHITNEY
  4. JoElla WHITNEY
                                  _Abel WHITNEY _
                 _Micah WHITNEY _|
                |                |_Mary CANE ____
 _Joel WHITNEY _|
|               |                 _Andrew COBB __
|               |_Hannah COBB ___|
|                                |_Hannah GREEN _
|
|--Joel Emmons WHITNEY
|
|                                 _______________
|                _Joseph DYER ___|
|               |                |_______________
|_Sally DYER ___|
                |                 _______________
                |________________|
                                 |_______________

Notes

Updated November 23, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) U.S., General Land Office Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: Joel Emmons WHITNEY
- Issue Date: 10 Feb 1860
- Place: Anoka, Minnesota, USA
- Meridian: 4th PM - 1831 MN/WI
- Township: 032n
- Range: 022W
- Aliquots: NW¼
- Section: 20
- Accession Number: MW-0087-480
- Document Number: 54060

(2) 1860 United States Census Minnesota, Ramsey Co., St. Paul (2nd Ward), St. Paul Post Office: Page 89; June 11, 1860.

J. E. WHITNEY is a boarder in the William GALE household. He is 38 years old, a photographer with real estate valued at $25,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000, and was born in Maine.

(3) U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records via Ancestry.com; 2nd Congressional District of Minnesota; Ramsey Co., St. Paul; July 1, 1863.

- Name: J. E. WHITNEY
- Age: 41
- Occupation: Photographist
- Place of Birth: Me.
- Remarks: deaf.

(4) U.S. City Directories via Ancestry.com; St. Paul, Minnesota

St. Paul, Minnesota

- 1863: WHITNEY, Joel E., photographist, cor Cedar and 3d
- 1864: WHITNEY, J. E., cor Cedar and 3d (Photographic Artist)
- 1866: WHITNEY J E, cor 3rd and Cedar (Photographers' Stock)
- 1867: WHITNEY J E, 174 Third, cor Cedar. (Photograph Room)
- 1869: WHITNEY J E, 174 Third. (Photographic Gallery)
- 1871: WHITNEY J E, photographic artist 174 Third res Fourteenth bet St. Peter + Wabashaw.

Atlanta, Georgia

- 1878: WHITNEY Joel E., gardener, r 55 Jackson
- 1880: WHITNEY Joel E., gardener, r 55 Jackson

St. Paul, Minnesota

- 1882: WHITNEY Joel E (Whitney + Uttley), bds 215 Pearl
- 1883: WHITNEY Joel E (Whitney + Uttley), bds 215 Pearl
- 1883: WHITNEY + UTTLEY (Joel E WHITNEY, Palemon L UTTLEY), Grocers 870 Jackson.
- 1884: WHITNEY Joel E, rooms 213 Spruce.
- 1885: WHITNEY Joel E, bds 14 Summit ave.

(5) Minnesota, U.S., Marriages Index via Ancestry.com

- Name: Joel E WHITNEY
- Gender: Male
- Marriage Date: 25 Sep 1865
- Marriage Place: Ramsey, Minnesota
- Spouse's Name: Elsie AYER
- Spouse Gender: Female
- FHL Film Number: 1314546

(6) 1870 United States Census for Minnesota, Ramsey Co., City of St. Paul (Third Ward), St. Paul Post Office: Page 88; July 12, 1870.

J. E. WHITNEY is head of household, married to Elsie [AYER] WHITNEY. He is 48 years old, a photographer with real estate valued at $20,000 and personal estate valued at $5,000, and was born in Maine. He is eligible to vote. Children in the household include Samuel WHITNEY (age 2) along with seemingly related people yet to be identified; Ellen B. AYER (age 30) and Fred WHITNEY (age 14) plus domestic servants.

(7) 1880 United States Census for Georgia, Fulton Co., Atlanta Supervisor's District 1; Enumeration District 98; page 47; June 12, 1880.

E. Joel WHITNEY is head of household, a widower. He is 58 years old and a gardner. He was born in Maine as were his parents. Children in the household include W. Sam (age 12), Ella Jo (age 7), and Wallace (age 9), all born in Minnesota.

(8) Obituary via Newspapers.com: The Saint Paul Globe; Saint Paul, Minnesota; 22 Jan 1886, Fri; Page 9.

WHITNEY— ln St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 20. 1886. J. E. WHITNEY, aged 63 years. Funeral services will be held at the residence of Mr. FAIRBANKS, No. 16 Summit avenue, at 2:3o p. m. Friday, 22d last. Friends of the family are invited to attend. Omaha papers please copy.

(9) Find a Grave via Ancestry.com

- Name: Joel Emmons WHITNEY
- Birth: 18 May 1822
- Death: 20 Jan 1886 (aged 63)
- Burial: Oakland Cemetery; Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA
- Plot: Block: 16 Lot: 6
- Memorial ID: 71531922

(10) U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index via Ancestry.com

- Joel E. WHITNEY and Elsie AYER are listed as the parents of Samuel Willey WHITNEY, b. 13 Oct 1867 in St Paul, Minnesota.

(11) North America, Family Histories via Ancestry.com: Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 036

"Mrs. Joella WHITNEY JOY. 35383
Born in Atlanta, Georgia.
Descendant of Micah WHITNEY, of Maine.
Daughter of Joel Emmons WHITNEY and Elsie Parish AYER, his wife.
Granddaughter of Joel E. WHITNEY and Sally DYAR, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Micah WHITNEY and Hannah COBB, his wife.
Micah WHITNEY, (1752-1832), was placed on the pension of Somerset county, Maine, 1818, for services as private, Massachusetts line. He died in Phillips, Maine.
Also No. 32531."

(12) Castle, Henry Anson. "History of St. Paul and Vicinity: A Chronicle of Progress and a Narrative Account of the Industries, Institutions, and People of the City and Its Tributary Territory." Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912. Page 1177.

"Joel Emmons WHITNEY. The first photographer in St. Paul and an enterprising business man, engaged for many years in different commercial or industrial lines, was Joel E. WHITNEY. His name also represents the rare case of a family that for three generations has been actively identified with the city. He was a man of keen intelligence, great energy and deserved popularity. The father of the subject of this sketch was Joel WHITNEY, an early investor in St. Paul property. The senior WHITNEY was born at Gorham, Maine, May 7, 1787. He was married in June, 1815, at Phillips, Maine, to Sallie DYAR. He was a merchant at Phillips and at Plymouth, and in 1818 removed to Portland. In 1851, he removed to St. Paul, and soon became interested in real estate in large tracts. The addition of Whitney and Smith, in the heart of the present wholesale district, perpetuates his name in the record. He gave to the German Methodist church the lot on Rosabel street, so long occupied by that organization. He was an active temperance worker. He died in this city March 22, 1852, and was buried at Phillips, Maine. His son, Joel Emmons WHITNEY was born in Phillips, Maine, May 18, 1822, one of nine children of Joel and Sallie (DYAR) WHITNEY. He resided at Plymouth from 1838 to 1850, employed as a merchant miller. In the latter year he came to St. Paul, where he remained until 1871. He opened a daguerreau gallery and produced the first photographs in the city. Many of his pictures were engraved. WHITNEY and Le DUC published the first lithograph map of St. Paul. For a time he engaged in the banking business, the firm being Caldwell, Whitney and Company. Joel E. WHITNEY was, at times, a very extensive owner of St. Paul realty, including besides other large tracts, forty acres near the present Central high school building and a half interest in the site of Merriam Park. Mr. WHITNEY was married October 6, 1865, to Elsie AYER. In 1871 he removed to Atlanta, Georgia, and in 1873 to Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1880 he returned to St. Paul, and engaged for a time in the grocery business on Jackson street. Failing health caused his relinquishment of this enterprise. He died January 20, 1886, and was buried at Oakland cemetery. Joella Elsie WHITNEY, daughter of Joel E. WHITNEY was married in St. Paul to Samuel J. JOY, and still resides here. They have one daughter, Elsie JOY. Samuel J. JOY, the son of Charles JOY, manufacturer and banker, and Jane (Moore) JOY was born at Woodsville, New Hampshire, May 2, 1873, and came to St. Paul with his parents in 1888. Samuel JOY and his brother Charles P. JOY were the first automobile dealers in St. Paul, and are still extensively engaged in that line, under the firm name of Joy Brothers."

(13) Whitney Research Group.

- "Joel Emmons-7 WHITNEY (Joel-6, Micha-5, Abel-4, Nathaniel-3, Benjamin-2, John-1), son of Joel and Sally (DYER) WHITNEY, was born 18 May 1822, Phillips, ME, and died 20 Jan 1886, St. Paul, MN." Cites the Phillips, Maine Vital Records for date of birth.
- "He married, 6 Oct 1865, Elsie Parish AYER, daughter of Thomas Burnham and Sybil (CHASE) AYER."
- "He was born in Phillips, ME, was a merchant miller. He resided in Plymouth, ME, from 1838 to 1850, and at Saint Paul, MN, until 1871; then moved to Atlanta, GA. In 1873 he moved to Chattanooga, TN."
- "buried in the Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul."
- Children: Mabel; Samuel Willey; Wallace and JoElla.

(14) Our Pioneering Families, Genealogies of Whitney, Groathouse and Lignitz, researched and compiled by Vivian Gail Morrow Wade, Dec. 1986, first edition. Self-published manuscript available at DAR Library, Washington DC. Page 66. Photo on page 81.

- "in 1860 lived in Minneapolis"
- "The son of Joel Whitney of Phillips and St. Paul and grandson of Micah Whitney, the Revolutionary soldier, and great-grandson of Elizabeth Dyer of Revolutionary fame"

(15) Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XIV. Minnesota Biographies 1655 - 1912, Compiled by Warren Upham, D. Sc., Secretary and Librarian and Mrs Rose Barteau Dunlap, Library Assistant. Published by The Society, St. Paul, MN June 1912.

- MHS Acquires Portrait of Minnesota's Premier Pioneer Photographer via Minnesota Historical Society
- "Joel E. WHITNEY is Minnesota's premier pioneer photographer. Trained in the art of 'capturing mirror likenesses' during the earliest days of photography, WHITNEY operated, first as a daguerreian and subsequently a wet plate photographer, in St. Paul and Minneapolis from 1850-1871. He is nationally recognized as one of America's foremost pioneer photographic artists."
- Settled in St. Paul in 1850.

(16) Whitney's Gallery, 3rd Street and Cedar Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota

- "Joel Emmons WHITNEY (1822-1886) is a true pioneer of Minnesota photography. He is one of the first people to practice photography in the Midwest, and some of the oldest extant images of Minnesota were created by WHITNEY. WHITNEY occupied the space above Charles D. ELFELT's clothing store on 3rd and Cedar from 1851 to 1867. WHITNEY was an early adopter of photography, and his gallery was later known as 'Whitney's Pioneer Gallery and Photographic Depot. Local newspapers from WHITNEY's time often refer to him as the first photographer of St. Paul."

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Additional Notes.

Mayflower lineage: Howland/Tilley -1; Hope Howland -2; Hope Chipman -3; Samuel Cobb -4; Chipman Cobb -5; Andrew Cobb -6 (DAR/SAR ancestor); Hannah Cobb -7; Joel Whitney -8; Joel Whitney -9.