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- History of McHenry County, Illinois, page 882
Amos D. Whiting was born in Johnson, Lamoille Co., Vt., July 27, 1824,
a son of Zachariah and Lucinda (Dodge) Whiting, his father a native of
Connecticut, and his mother of Vermont. His father died in 1862, aged seventy-
two years. He was a veteran of the war of 1812. His mother died in 1872, aged
seventy-two years. His grandfather, Nathan Whiting, was a native of
Connecticut, of Scotch descent. His maternal grandfather was a native of New
Hampshire, of English descent, and the father of seven children - Danie
Amos, Jonathan, Solomon, Lucinda, Sarah and ???. In the spring of 1847 Mr.
Whiting came to Illinois, and worked by the month for J.W. Smith a year and a
half. He then ran a peddler's wagon till the spring of 1850, when, in company
with J.W. Smith, Joshua Chase and Thomas Heath, he started for California,
reaching the end of their journey the first of August. Mr. Whiting remained in
California nearly ten years, working in the mines, running a hotel, and
carrying on a mercantile business. He finally lost his hotel, which cost him
$8,000, and then returned to Illinois, and settled in McHenry, remaining there
four or five years, when he bought the farm of 280 acres where he now lives.
Mr. Whiting was married March 21, 1860, to Lois, daughter of George and Achsah
Bassett, natives of Lamoille County, Vt., where the mother died in 1871, aged
fifty years, and the father in 1877, aged sixty-two years. Mrs. Whiting was
born Nov. 10, 1843. To Mr. and Mrs. Whiting have been born five children -
Cynthia, William E., Belle, Lois and Lizzie. Politically Mr. Whiti
Democrat. He has been an influential man in the township, and has held several
of its offices.
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