Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — MRS. W. C. WHITNEY DEAD. [ARTICLE]

MRS. W. C. WHITNEY DEAD.

Wife of the Ex-Secretary of the Trensury Pa gses Away. Mrs. W. C. Whitney, wile of the exSecretary of the Navy, died at 3 o’clo.k Saturday morning. Mrs. Floia Payne Whitney was the daughter of Henry B. Payne, of Cleveland, recently Unite! States Senator from Ohio. She was .the youngest of the family. While a very young girl she showed a great fondness for hooks. She had tutors at home, and attended the best schools of New York, afterward devoting a year to study in Europe. Soon after the completion of her-sci-entiflc course at Cambridge, while yet scarcely out of her teens, she married William C. Whitney, then a ypung lawyer of New York City. That was about twenty years ago. Her life since has been devoted to her husband and her children, but she has found time to make and to hold a leading place in society in New York and Washington, and to establish a sound reputation as a linguist, as an authority in arohaeology and as a judge and critic of literature. When Mr. Whitney became Secretary of the Navy in Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet Mrs. Whitney made their home in Washington second only to the White House in social importance. They occupied the old Frelinghuysen house on I street. Mrs. Whitney had five, children. ExSenator Payne, Mrs. Whitney's father, is still living. When Mrs. Whitney’s first child was torn he gave the young mother $1,000,000.