Life History

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• [dec of griffith yale ap einion.GED]     Augustus Sherrill Whiton, sonof Luther and Nancy Cooper Whiton, was born in Binghamton, NY, Dec 25,1820 and married at Ramapo, NY, 18 March 1843 Caroline, daughter ofThomas and Elizabeth Dater Ward, one of thirteen children. He waseducated at the Ithaca Academy, and became a Civil Engineer. In 1841-5he was the first assistant to Silas Seymour, who constructed thebranch od the Erie Railroad from Gishen to Piermont on the Hudson, thefirst railroad outlet to the west of New York. After practicing hisprofession for several years in Kentucky, Ohio, and New York, hebecame General Superintendent of the Erie Railroad. In 1853 he becamethe chief engineer of a Kentucky railroad, and later one in Virginia.Removing to New York, he entered the steel and iron rail business andwas the agent for several English firms. He was for many years anelder of the Collegiate Reformed (Dutch) Church of New York City, andlived an active Christian life. Personally he was a man of highprinciple and kindly bearing. He died in New York City Feb 7, 1898 andhis wife died Jan 31, 1905. Both are interred in Greenwood Cemetery,Brooklyn, NY. The following is taken from an obituary published in theChristian Intelligencer: "The pastor of one of the New York Citychurches has written us in a recent letter, "Many a time in recentyears as I have reviewed my own life and recalled those whosecharacter has inspired me, the picture of Mr. Whiton has been recalledto my mind. His balance of judgement was so true, his sympathy soconstant, that as I think of him over a space of almost a score ofyears his likeness is very near the ideal of Christian manhood." Thechildren of Augustus Sherrill Whiton and his wife, Caroline WardWhiton were: 1. Julia Whiton, born 11 Feb 1844, married Robert ForsythLittle, Senior on 11 Feb 1869. RFL, Sr was also born on 11 Feb 1844.She died on 18 June 1916. They had three children: (a) Carrie WhitonLittle, born 6 December 1869 and died 24 July 1877 (b) Robert ForsythLittle, Jr., born 14 May 1874, married Janet Heath 7 June 1905, anddied at Garden City, LI, 23 July 1923. Their children were: Janet,born 1 Oct 1908, married Arthur Cherouny 25 May 1930 in Paris, Franceand Robert Forsyth Little, III, born 8 May 1917; (c) Julia WhitonLittle, born 21 May 1876, and married E. Faulkner, M.D., in 1910, andresided at 570 Park Avenue, NYC when the Whiton Family book waspublished in 1932. 2. Elizabeth Whiton, born 9 May 1846, and died inNYC 19 October 1878. 3. Augustus Ward Whiton, born 13 Dec 1850,married Jennie Madeline Paulmier, died at Augusta, GA on 8 April 1875from an illness contracted on his wedding trip to Europe. He had oneson, Jesse Paulmier Whiton-Stuart. 4. Albert C. Whiton, born 29 June1860, and died 22 February 1861. 5. Louis Claude, born 29 Dec 1857. Hemarried Harriet Louise Bell, on 10 June 1884 in NYC. She was born 3March 1865 in NYC, where she died 14 Feb 1923 and is interred inGreenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. They had three children: (a) AngelineBell, born 13 Dec 1885 in NYC, married 1 Hanbury Watkins 24 April 1905and had a son named Armitage, who was born 20 Dec 1906 in Newport, NY.She married 2nd Hartley Courtlandt Davis. (b) Augustus Sherrill Whiton(II) (c) Louis Claude Whiton, Junior

Sources

• 1. thomas up and down.GED
• 2. The Whiton Family In America: The Genealogy of the Descendants ofThomas Whiton (1635)
• 3. Lineage Papers of Robert Forsyth Little, Jr. for the Society of theColonial Wars
• 4. Stredel2.FTW
• 5. Obituary of Robert Forsyth Little
• 6. Tombstone inscription, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY