Whitten, Emily Isabel Pritham, 1832-1911
Person
Biographical note
Emily Isabel Pritham was born about 1832 at Saco, Maine. She married William H. Whitten in 1865, and moved to the Boston area of Massachusetts. She worked in mills before her marriage, and ran a boarding house afterwards. Emily and William had six children: Ida Jane, Ernest, Agnes, Mary "Mamie", William, Jr., and Susan "Susie". Emily Whitten died in 1911.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
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