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Author	Topic: A small light on John Henry Whitlock
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 01-19-2002 10:23 PM As part of my ongoing silversmith tree, I have been looking into an interesting character, John Henry Whitlock. He was born in Crown Point, New York on 17 May 1837 and apprenticed to his uncle Lafayette Washington Preston c 1850. In addition to training as a jeweler and silversmith, he became a proficient telegraph operator. After working several years as a journeyman in Castleton, Vermont, he moved on to Eufaula, Alabama in 1860 to make his fortune and was just establishing his business when the Civil War broke out. He was forced, against his principles, to serve in the Confederate Army because of his skill with the telegraph. He survived and returned to Eufaula and married a local girl, Clara Griffith, whose beau was not as lucky and had perished. Whitlock apparently gave up silver work, beginning instead a workshop to make children's toys, supplemented by a general assortment of jewelry, imported (ie northern) silver, and fancy goods. It proved a successful combination and he became a leading citizen and public benefactor. He was remember as ". . . a man of unresting industry and enormous kindness for his adopted home." I have done a bit of digging in toy references (slim pickings in my neighborhood) to see if his work has been documented, but have found nothing but slim acknowledgement as yet. There is, suposedly, a portrait in the Museum of the South, but I have not had it confirmed. I know of no mark attributed to him, though he did advertise as a silversmith in Castleton in conjunction with Lafayette Preston before departing south. If anyone has any knowledge of his activities or works, I would be grateful to hear of it. And by the bye, he is related to 213 silversmiths (a new record): William Adgate Husband of 5th Cousin 3 Times Removed Joel Allen 5th Cousin Twice Removed Eleazer Baker 4th Cousin Twice Removed Ebenezer Baldwin 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed Jabez Baldwin 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed Jedediah Baldwin 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed Roswell Bartholomew 5th Cousin Twice Removed John Beach 6th Cousin 3 Times Removed Miles Beach 5th Cousin 4 Times Removed Clement Beecher 7th Cousin Twice Removed John Benjamin Husband of 2nd Cousin 7 Times Removed Frederick Starr Blackman 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed John Clark Blackman 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed John Starr Blackman 3rd Cousin 4 Times Removed William Blakeslee 5th Cousin Once Removed Ziba Blakeslee 3rd Cousin 5 Times Removed Jonathan Bliss 5th Cousin Twice Removed William Bliss 5th Cousin Twice Removed John Blowers Husband of 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed Timothy Bonticou Husband of 3rd Cousin 6 Times Removed Timothy Bonticou 5th Cousin Twice Removed Zalmon Stone Bostwick 6th Cousin Once Removed Aner Bradley 3rd Cousin 4 Times Removed Gustavus Clark Bradley 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed Luther Bradley 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed Phineas Bradley 3rd Cousin 4 Times Removed Richard Bradley 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed Zebul Bradley Husband of 3rd Cousin 4 Times Removed Joseph Hunt Breck Husband of 4th Cousin Twice Removed John Breed 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed Abram Brinsmaid Husband of 6th Cousin 3 Times Removed Charles Julius Brinsmaid 8th Cousin Once Removed Frederick Thomas Brinsmaid 8th Cousin Once Removed George Bliss Brinsmaid 8th Cousin Once Removed James Edgar Brinsmaid 7th Cousin Twice Removed Sedgwick Swift Brinsmaid 7th Cousin Twice Removed Sedgwick Swift Brinsmaid 8th Cousin Once Removed William Bliss Brinsmaid 7th Cousin Twice Removed Samuel Buel 4th Cousin 4 Times Removed Abel Buell 4th Cousin Twice Removed John Buell 4th Cousin Twice Removed William Buell 5th Cousin Once Removed George Burnham 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed John Burnham 5th Cousin Twice Removed John Burnham 6th Cousin Once Removed Albert Chapin Burr 6th Cousin Alexander Jay Burr 6th Cousin Cornelius A. 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Thompson 5th Cousin Twice Removed Isaac Thompson 5th Cousin Twice Removed Isaac Thompson 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed James Tiley Husband of 4th Cousin 3 Times Removed Erastus Tracy 5th Cousin 3 Times Removed Gurdon Tracy 5th Cousin 3 Times Removed Daniel Treadwell 6th Cousin Twice Removed Isaac Dodge Treadwell 6th Cousin Twice Removed Bethuel Tuttle Husband of 5th Cousin Twice Removed William Tuttle 6th Cousin Once Removed William Ransom Vilas Husband of 7th Cousin Ambrose Ward 3rd Cousin 5 Times Removed Bilious Ward 3rd Cousin 5 Times Removed James Ward 3rd Cousin 4 Times Removed Mecok Ward 2nd Cousin 6 Times Removed William Ward 1st Cousin 7 Times Removed William Ward 3rd Cousin 5 Times Removed William Ward 2nd Cousin 6 Times Removed Charles Whiting 5th Cousin 4 Times Removed Charles Whiting 5th Cousin 5 Times Removed Ebenezer Whiting 5th Cousin 5 Times Removed William Bradford Whiting 6th Cousin 4 Times Removed William Bradford Whiting 5th Cousin 5 Times Removed Alvan Wilcox 6th Cousin 3 Times Removed Cyprian Wilcox 6th Cousin 3 Times Removed Samuel Wilmot 5th Cousin 3 Times Removed Samuel Wilmot 6th Cousin Twice Removed Benjamin Wynkoop Husband of 2nd Cousin 6 Times Removed [This message has been edited by wev (edited 01-19-2002).] IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 01-20-2002 07:34 AM IF you are not familiar with WEV's mammoth genealogy project American Silversmiths be sure to check it out. Click here IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 09-23-2008 12:13 AM Judging by the census's (three out of four of them) New York may be the likely place for John Henry's birth afterall. Also it appears that he worked as a jeweler in Houston County, Georgia around 1860. In the 1920 U S Federal Census for Eufaula, Alabama seventy-six year old Alabama born Clara Whitlock was residing with her forty-five year old Alabama born son John B Whitlock who was an optician. A sixty-three year old Uncle George W Whitlock who was born in New York and was a jeweler also lived with them. IP: Logged

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