[1] He graduated from Yale College, 1878, where he was a member of Skull and Bones along with future US President William H.
In 1912, she organized the first Cornwall meeting in support of voting rights for women, the daughter of astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb.
Her sister, Anita Newcomb McGee, was a doctor who helped establish the Army Nurse Corps.
Their son William Dwight Whitney was an international attorney who represented actress Adrianne Allen in her divorce from actor Raymond Massey; William Whitney then married Adrianne, and his first wife Dorothy married Raymond.
He had just been appointed to the New York State Supreme Court, and contracted a cold that turned into pneumonia on his return from being sworn in.