George Price Whitaker 
M, (30 December 1803 - 31 December 1890)
- Relationship
- 5th great-grandson of Herman Op Den Graeff
George Price Whitaker was born on 30 December 1803.1 He was the son of Joseph Musgrove Whitaker and Sarah Updegrove. George Price Whitaker married, at age 23, Eliza Ann Simmons, age 18 on Thursday, 1 November 1827.1 George Price Whitaker married Mary L. Hall. George Price Whitaker died on 31 December 1890 at age 87 years and 1 day.1 He was buried Saint Mark's Episcopal Cemetery, Perryville, Cecil County, Maryland.1
He was Iron Works. He From 'The Whitakers Tie Principle to Wheeling 1715-1945', by Earl C. May,
Harper Brothers Publishing; pages 150-151.
George was a millionaire of Whitaker Iron Works, Wheeling, West Virginia.
As one of the principal creditors of the Crescent Manufacturing Company (which
had electrified Wheeling in 1854) and had sold and shipped so much pig iron to
Crescent that when Crescent fell into problems with its creditors, George, in
order to protect his interests, took it over and also its attendant
properties, which he later sold to William Sturges from Chicago, IL in 1871
and it became Crescent Iron Company. George was also a member of the Maryland
legislature and Director on the Part of the State in the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company.
He was Iron Works. He From 'The Whitakers Tie Principle to Wheeling 1715-1945', by Earl C. May,
Harper Brothers Publishing; pages 150-151.
George was a millionaire of Whitaker Iron Works, Wheeling, West Virginia.
As one of the principal creditors of the Crescent Manufacturing Company (which
had electrified Wheeling in 1854) and had sold and shipped so much pig iron to
Crescent that when Crescent fell into problems with its creditors, George, in
order to protect his interests, took it over and also its attendant
properties, which he later sold to William Sturges from Chicago, IL in 1871
and it became Crescent Iron Company. George was also a member of the Maryland
legislature and Director on the Part of the State in the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company.
Children of George Price Whitaker and Eliza Ann Simmons
- Sarah Whitaker (5 Sep 1831 - 5 Sep 1831)
- Caroline Whitaker+1 (14 Jun 1833 - 15 Aug 1898)
- Mary Ann Whitaker (14 Apr 1835 - 18 Aug 1835)
- George Simmons Whitaker (13 Apr 1836 - 23 May 1837)
- Edmund Simmons Whitaker (10 Apr 1838 - 13 Dec 1898)
- Nelson Evans Whitaker+ (9 Nov 1839 - 28 Dec 1909)
- Henry Clay Whitaker+ (14 May 1842 - 2 Jul 1868)
- Joseph Musgrove Whitaker III (24 Jun 1844 - 24 Nov 1866)
- George Newton Whitaker (30 Nov 1846 - 20 Aug 1848)
- Cecil Newton Whitaker+ (27 May 1851 - 5 Apr 1883)
Last Edited=4 Sep 2011
Citations
- [S15] June (Shaull) Lutz, History of the Op Den Graef / Updegraff Family (Grand Rapids, Michigan; 1433 Elderwood Ct. N.W.: J. S. Lutz, 1988), p. U-150.