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William Henry Whitmore
1836–1900
Best known as a Boston genealogist and historian, he paired a businessman’s practical bent with a deep love of records, local history, and family research. His books and reference works helped organize American genealogical material for later scholars.
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A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c.
by William Henry Whitmore
About the author
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on September 6, 1836, he became known as a Boston businessman, politician, genealogist, and historian. Reliable biographical sources describe him as an energetic figure in nineteenth-century historical and genealogical circles, with a career that blended civic life, private business, and serious antiquarian research.
He wrote and compiled works on family history and New England history, including The American Genealogist, and is also noted for creating his "Ancestral Tablets," a practical format for recording pedigrees. Accounts of his life also credit him with helping found organizations and publications devoted to history and genealogy, reflecting how active he was in building the field as well as writing within it.
He died in Boston on June 14, 1900. Remembered today mainly for his genealogical and historical work, he stands out as one of those nineteenth-century researchers who helped turn scattered family records into something more systematic and usable.