Biography

02/03/1844 - 11/11/1933

WHITNEY, Lorenzo, a Representative from Wyoming County; born, February 3, 1844 in Windham, Wyoming County, Pa.; private, Company B, 82nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864-1865, Civil War); farmer; teacher; elected, auditor, Wyoming County; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1888; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1890); elected, school director; unsuccessful campaign, burgess, Plymouth, Pa. (1903); unsuccessful campaign, assessor, Plymouth (1907); died, November 11, 1933 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Greenwood Cemetery, Trucksville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.