Peerage Record – 25177

     Cornelia Whitney is the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and Marie Louise Schroeder.¹

     Flora Payne Whitney is the daughter of Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt.¹

     Barbara Whitney is the daughter of Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt.¹

     General James S. Whitney married Laurinda Collins.¹

     Laurinda Collins married General James S. Whitney.¹
     Her married name became Whitney.¹

     Henry Melville Whitney was born in 1839.¹ He was the son of General James S. Whitney and Laurinda Collins.¹ He died in 1923.¹
     He was founder of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston.¹ He was founder of the Dominion Coal Company & Dominion Iron & Steel Coompany at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada^G.¹

     Charles Butler is the son of Anthony Butler.¹
     He lived at Coates, Lincolnshire, England^G.¹

     Reverend Ralph Eaton was the Rector at Darfield, Yorkshire, England^G.¹

     Oliver Hazard Payne is the son of Hon. Henry B. Payne.¹
     He was educated at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.^G.¹

     William Payne Whitney was born on 20 March 1876.¹ He was the son of Hon. William Collins Whitney and Flora Payne.¹ He married Helen Hay, daughter of John Hay, in 1902.¹ He died on 25 May 1927 at age 51 at Greentree, Manhasset, Nassau County, New York, U.S.A.^G.¹
     William Payne Whitney usually went by his middle name of Payne.¹ He was educated at Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.^G.¹ He graduated from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.^G, in 1898.¹ He graduated from Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.^G, in 1901 with a Bachelor of Law.¹