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The Whitney family is a prominent American family descended from English emigrant John Whitney, who left London in 1635 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. The historic family mansion in Watertow
Eli Whitney Jr. (1765–1825), inventor of the cotton gin
Asa Whitney (1797–1872), a wealthy merchant as well as one of the first proponents of a U.S. transcontinental railroad.
William Collins Whitney
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent social figure and hostes
Whitney family
…Adeline Dutton Train (1824–1906) Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942) George W. Headley (1908–1985…
Photograph of Whitney taken c. 1909
Gertrude, 13 years of age. (John Everett Millais, 1888)
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in her studio, c. 1920
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, II and her daughters, Gladys and Gertrude, having tea in the library at the Breakers Newport, Rhode Island, William Bruce Ellis Ranken, 1932