Brigadier General Henry Howard Whitney (1866 - 1949)

Recipient of US Army "Distinguished Service Cross".
Lieutenant Colonel, Assistant Adjutant General to Lieutenant General Miles, 6 June to 8 August 1903.

Epitaph reads: "Henry Howard Whitney, No. 3640 Class of 1892, died on April 2, 1949 in Madison, New Jersey, at the age of 82. The 32 years of service Brigadier General Henry Howard Whitney gave to the United States Army and his country were repleat with many valorous exploits, one of which led to the successful conquest of a country and saved thousands of lives without endangering that of anyone except his own."


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WHITNEY Henry Howard

Officer, US Army; born at Glen Hope, Clearfield County, Pa., Dec. 25, 1866; son of the Rev. Walter Richard Whitney and Eliza Kegerreis Whitney. He was educated at Wiiliamsport Dickinson Seminary, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1884; and was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1892. He married at Washington, D.C., Feb. 25, 1897, Ellen Wadsworth Closson, daughter of General Henry W Closson of the United States Army. He is a member of the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.; is a Mason and a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the Society of American Wars. He served on special duty at the War Department in Military Information Division, April 1, 1896 to 1898; appointed military attache to Argentine Republic; under verbal orders from the secretary of war he communicated with General Gomez from the north coast of Cuba in May, 1898, during hostilities and made a military reconnaissance of the Island of Porto Rico, disguised as an English sailor, landing at Ponce; furnished information which was made the basis of the military campaign in Porto Rico; was on General Nelson A. Miles' staff during Spanish-American War to Aug. 8, 1903; is now captain of the Coast Artillery Corps. United States Army. He traveled around the world with General Miles, as lieutenant colonel and aide de camp in 1902-1903; also over Europe on confidential official business in 1899. He is a member of the Chevy Chase and Metropolitan Clubs of Washington, D.C., and the St. Nicholas Club of New York City. Residence: 1359 Columbia Road, Washington, D.C. Address: War Department, Washington


Transcribed from Who's Who in Pennsylvania, A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, Edited by John W. Leonard.  Second Edition 1908.  L.R. Hamersly & Company, One West Thirty-Fourth Street, New York.