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Whitten family (Boston, Mass.)

 Family

Biography

The Whitten family of Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood centers on William H. Whitten Sr. (1838–1928/29) and his wife, Emily Isabel Pritham (1832–1911). After marrying in 1865, they relocated several times from Maine to Boston. The Whittens had five children.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Whitten family papers

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2025-104
Abstract

Letters written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to and from William H. Whitten (a brick mason) and Emily Isabel Pritham Whitten (a mill worker), originally from southern Maine and later residents of Jamaica Plain (Boston), Massachusetts.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1856-1921