Eli Whitney, Jr.

1820 - 1895  (75 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 10 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Eli Whitney
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	1820
  Gender	Male
  Prominent People	USA
  business, rich
  Death	1895
  Siblings	3 Siblings
  + 1. Eli Whitney, Jr.,   b. 1820   d. 1895  (Age 75 years) ▻ Sarah Perkins Dallibar   2. Frances Edwards Whitney,   b. 1817   d. 1859  (Age 42 years) ▻ NN Chaplain   3. Elizabeth Fay Whitney,   b. 1819   d. 1852  (Age 33 years)   4. Susan Edwards Whitney,   b. 1819   d. 1852  (Age 33 years)
  Person ID	I304059	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2002

  
  

  Father	Eli Whitney,   b. 8 Dec 1765   d. 8 Jan 1825 (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Henriette Frances Edwards   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F143938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Perkins Dallibar,   b. 1820   d. 1895 (Age 75 years)
  Children	+ 1. Eli Whitney, III,   b. 1847   d. 1924 (Age 77 years)   2. Susan Huntington Whitney,   b. 1847   d. 1924 (Age 77 years)   3. Henrietta Edwards Whitney,   b. 1847   d. 1924 (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F122024	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2002

  
  

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• Notes

  As his father married very late in life, Eli Whitney jr was only five years old when the famous inventor and pioneer manufacturer died in 1825. The Whitney Arms Company and its famous machine shops were thus run by the boy's elder cousins, Eli Whitney Blake and Philos Blake, both able mechanics and inventors in their own rights. When he finally came of age and took over in 1841, Eli Whitney je found Whitneyville in dire needs of new machines and money to fund it. By accident, he came to diversify the firms activities and start to manufacture recreational firemars, which prived more profitable than the army rifles. Eli Whitney jr also manufactured the famous Walker colts for the Texas rangers, as his fellow Connecticut yankee, Samuel Colt then did not have a factory to fulfill his first order. Eli Whitney jr created the New Haven Water Company as a private venture, after the project did not progress as a public enterprise. He therefore created Whitney lake and dimensioned the dam to provide power and water to his Whitneyville industrial complex as well as to the city. In 1888, Eli Whitney jr sold the armory to Winchester, setting the Whitney family more firmly in the field of public utilities, banking and real estate in New Haven, rather than the manufacturing activities for which his father was so famous. Eli Whitney jr also served as an Alderman of New Haven. He built himself a fashionable mansion on his North Edgehill property. His only son, Eli Whitney III, sold this mansion to investment banker Frederick Brewster, who rebuilt it as "Edgerton" Fortune: 300,000 $ 1850 3,000,000 $ 1875 8,000,000 $ 1895 Activity: Manufacturing Main property: Whitney Arms Co Other activities: utilities, banking, railroads Associated properties: New Haven Water Co (founder); real estate in New Haven,