Person

Roland Whitney (Jefferson County, KY, merchant)

b. 1817-03-20 d. 1896-08-08

Louisville, Kentucky, merchant. Massachusetts native. Married to Eliza Gertrude Hikes Whitney in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on July 31, 1849. Married to Anna E. Lemon Whitney. Father of Roland L. Whitney, Libbie Whitney, and James E. Whitney. Merchant in Louisville in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 383A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 3, p. 725.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 547B.

Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #7007129: Jefferson County, Books 9-11, p. 177.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #15475.

Pennsylvania, U. S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968, Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA, Allegheny County, File #101786.

"Roland Whitney (1817-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial #137936007, accessed March 7, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137936007.

"Sudden Death," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), August 8, 1896, p. 8.

Theodore Witmer Herr, _Genealogical record of Reveclass Hans Herr and his direct lineal descendants : from his birth A D 1639 to the present time, containing the names, etc., of 13223 persons (Lancaster, PA, 1908), 377.

Citation

Whitney, Roland. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202742 (November 12, 2026).

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