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 654 WHITNEY. WHITNEY. elected a trustee of the Millbury Savings Hank in 1873; chosen its president in iSSS, which position he still holds. He was selectman in 1877, '78, and '79, and again in 1S81 and '87, serving as chairman of the board the last three years. He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives in 1881, serving upon the committee on banks and banking, and of the Senate in [889, holding the onerous and responsible position of chairman of the committee on towns, performing good service also upon the committee on labor. He is an active member in the order of F. & A. M., and is a member of the Wor- cester County Commandery, Knights Tem- plar. WHITNEY, Milton Burrall, son of Samuel Hart and Manila l.ovisa (Dickin- son) Whitney, was born in Granville, Hampden county, October 6, 1S25. He is of the eighth generation in direct descent from Henry Whitney, who emi- grated from Herefordshire. England, and settled near Huntington, upon the easterly end of Long Island, about 1649. He was educated in the public schools; fitted for college in the private school of Rev. Timothy Cooley, of Granville, and was graduated from Williams College in the class of 1.S49, with the honor of clas- sical oration. He engaged in teaching for two years after graduating, then studied law with William G. Bates, a leading lawyer in western Massachusetts ; was admitted to the bar in 1853, and upon admission, formed a partnership with Mr. Bates, which lasted till 1865. He then practiced alone until [874, when he associated with himself James R. Dunbar, under the firm name of Whitney & Dunbar, which part- nership continued till t886, when Mr. Dunbar was appointed associate justice of the superior court. Since that time he has been a member of the law firm of Whitney & Brigham. Mr. Whitney has been repeatedly called lo serve his town and state in many posi- tions of honor and trust, and as trustee or director in many local corporations. He has been a trustee in the W'estlield Savings bank continuously since 1857; a director of the First National bank of Wcstlield since its incorporation in 1865, and its president since 1881 : prior to 1865, he was a director of the old Westfield Bank ; has been for years the attorney for the town and many of the leading business firms and corporations ; has practiced in all the counties of western Massachusetts ; was a member of the state Senate from the western Hampden district, in 1862 and '63. Although the Senate in 1862 con- tained thirteen lawyers, and he was one of the youngest members, he was made chair- man of the committee on public lands, and chairman of the joint special com- mittee on the important subject of the "Concord and Sudbury rivers." He also served on several other standing and special committees. MILTON B WHITNEY. In 1863 he was a member of the Senate committee on judiciary, and chairman of the joint committee on federal relations, and took an active and leading part in the legislation of that session. He was presidential elector in 1868, and a delegate to the national Republican convention which nominated President Garfield in 1880. He was appointed a member of the state board of education, in 1 S.St, and was re-appointed in iS.Si), at the- expiration of the term. He has always taken a lively interest in educational mat- ters, and has been found in the ranks of those who have at heart the raising of the standard of good citizenship in the Com- monwealth. Early in life Mr. Whitney was a Whig in politics, and has acted with the Repub- lican party since its formation, but from