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 WHITING. WHITING. 6 5 I and 46 Winter Street. Here the new firm built up a large and constantly increasing business, which in a few years obliged them to enlarge their capacity by adding Nos. 4S and 50 Winter Street to their store, and later, to secure the erection of the magnifi- cent building on Washington Street, which the firm now occupies, arranged with especial reference to its large retail business. The success of the new store was phenom- enal. In 18S3 the building was found to be too small, and was enlarged by the erection of an extensive addition covering an area of sixteen thousand square feet, forming one of the largest and best arranged, and most substantial business edifices in the country. Besides the very large retail business which Mr. White has built up, his house has for many years been one of the largest importers of dry-goods in the country, and this wholesale business has extended from Eastport, Me., to San Francisco, Cal. The house is one of Boston's best-known insti- tutions, and it rarely falls to the lot of any one man to become so successful a merchant in so short a space of time as has this energetic, shrewd, and enterprising man of affairs in his especial line of busi- ness. On the 25th of December, 1863, in Bos- ton, Mr. White married Ellen M., daughter of Samuel Hall and Eliza M. Tucker. Their four children are : Annie Huntington, Emily Hall, Edith, and Ralph Herbert White. WHITING, FRED ERWIN, son of George Frederic and Harriet Louisa(Learned)W r hit- ing, was born in Brookline, Norfolk county, December 21, i S 5 7. He is a lineal de- scendant from Nathaniel Whiting, of Ded- ham, who married Hannah White, daugh- ter of John White, March 4, 1643. They had twelve children, of whom the young- est, Jonathan, born October 9, 1667, mar- ried Rachel Thorp, December 3, 1689. Jonathan and Rachel had ten children, of whom Ithamar, born April 12, 1741, mar- ried Mary Day, March 28, 1765. Ithamar ami Mary had five children, of whom Esek, born February 10, 1769, married Lydia Goodridge, December 3, 1797. Esek and Lydia had five children, of whom Charles Horace, born May 26, 1S00, married Plooma S. Barnard, December 25, 1825. Charles and Plooma had seven children, one of whom was George F., the father of Mr. Whiting. His early educational training was re- ceived in private schools, and the Cam- bridge high school. He was fitted for col- lege matriculation in the latter school, entered Harvard College, and was gradu- ated in the class of 1880. After graduation he was one year with the Boston Knob Company, of which his father was president. He then became connected with the business of the " Bos- ton Herald," acting as private secretary to R. M. Pulsifer, its manager. While serv- ing in this capacity he was called to the oversight of many outside interests in which Mr. Pulsifer was interested, especi- ally when his patron was abroad, and though young in years, was often obliged to assume grave responsibilities. The results showed marked executive ability, and in March, r888, he was admitted as partner of the firm who owned and published the '"Her- ald." In May of the same year, when the entire "Herald " property was turned over to the Boston Herald Company, he was one of the firm owners, and was made • m m FRED E WHITING clerk of the corporation and assistant busi- ness manager, which position he now holds. He is also a director in the company, and one of the three executors of the will of Mr. Pulsifer. In 1879, '80, and '81 he was treasurer of the Cambridge ward and city committee. He is director and treasurer of the Hotel & Railroad News Company ; treasurer of