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Henry Melville Whitney (October 22, 1839 - January 25, 1923) was an American industrialist, the founder of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and later the Dominion Coal Company Ltd. and the Dominion Iron and Steel Company Ltd. of Sydney, Nova Scotia. He was also president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, long an important transportation link between Boston and New York City. ==Early life== Henry Whitney was born at Conway, Massachusetts, of Puritan stock. The family were descended from John Whitney of London, who settled in 1635 at Watertown, Massachusetts. Henry Whitney's father was Brigadier General James Scollay Whitney; his mother, Laurinda Collins, was a descendant of William Bradford. Henry had a well known younger brother, the financier William Collins Whitney, who served as Secretary of the Navy in the first administration (1885–89) of President Grover Cleveland. His sister Lucy Collins "Lily" Whitney married Charles T. Barney, who became the president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company. Another sister, Susan Collins Whitney, married Henry F. Dimock. Educated at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Massachusetts, Whitney was a personally pleasant and genial man who had hearing difficulties from childhood. He began his business career as a clerk in a bank in Conway in 1856. In 1859 he went to Boston, where he was a clerk in the Bank of Mutual Redemption. He then worked as a clerk in the office of the navy agent at the Boston Custom House in 1860-61. Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Whitney went to New York City and engaged in the shipping business.〔''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'' Vol. X, p. 155. New York: James T. White & Company, 1909. Reprint of 1900 edition.〕 In 1866 Whitney returned to Boston and was appointed agent of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, of which his father was president. This concern operated steamships on the "outside line" between Boston and New York around Cape Cod.〔 On October 3, 1878, Whitney married Margaret F. Green of Brookline, Massachusetts. Residing in Brookline, the couple were the parents of one son and four daughters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Melville Whitney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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