Jothan WHITAKER(664) Jothan emigrated from England where he met and married Mary Miller. Only after the marriage did they discover they were first cousins.

He was married to Mary MILLER. Children were: Sarah WHITAKER.


Whitaker, Charles Henry (1846-1926), merchant, was born in Toledo, Ohio on September 6, 1846, son of John Hall and Francis Elvira (GROVSNOR) Whitaker. He was a descendent of Jonathan Whitaker, who came to America from Coventry, England, in the first half of the eighteenth century and settled in New Jersey. From Jonathan Whitaker and his wife Elizabeth Jervis the line descended through their son Jonathon and his wife Mary Miller; their son Stephen and his wife Ruth Conklin, and their son Stephen and his wife Mary Hall, grandparents of Charles Henry Whitaker. His great grandfather, Stephen Whitaker, was a lieutenant in Washington's army in the Revolutionary War, taking part in the battle of Monmouth and other engagements. His father was one of the pioneer hardware merchants of Toledo, Ohio. Owing to his mother's death, he was reared by his grandparents in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended the public schools and was graduated at the high school in 1865. Later, he returned to Toledo and entered the hardware business, joining his father's firm of Whitaker & Phillips. In 1882, following his father's death, he became head of the hardware firm of Whitaker, Haynes & Co, later Whitaker & Co., and finally, the Whitaker, Mitchell Hardware Company. He retired from active business in 1902. Mr. Whitaker was a member of the Sulgrave Institution, Historical Society of North-Western Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Chamber of Commerce, Sons of the American Revolution (president of the Anthony Wayne Chapter, one term), and the Exchange Club of Toledo. As a member of the First Congregational Church of Toledo he took an active interest in religious work, was a Bible class teacher and a deacon, at the time of his death holding the office of permanent deacon, which had been created in his honor, and also aided in the work of the Toledo council of churches, the city mission and the Y.M.C.A. In his recreations he was fond of music, literature, travel, and outdoor pursuits, specially gardening. In his character and conduct Mr. Whitaker represented a high type of citizenship. He was intensely patriotic, gave sympathetic and practical support to every worthy public enterprise, devoted his time, energy and means to great missionary movements, and in every relation in life was true to the loftiest standards of morality and of honor. He was married on November 5, 1873 to Olive Stafford, daughter of William Henry Davis, a merchant of New York City, and had two daughters, Edith Hall and Anna Katherine Whitaker. He died in Pasadena, California on February 5, 1926.

Source: The National Cyclopedia of American Biography; Vol. 10 ©1938; pp. 473-474.

JONATHAN WHITAKER JUN.

JONATHAN WHITAKER, Jun. (son of Jonathan,) and Mary Miller lived on part of the 407 acres of land purchased of his father, on Mine Brook, and had children: (3d Gen.)

1. Stephen, who married, 1st, his cousin, Susan White, daughter of Ebenezer White; she died 1st September, 1773; 2d, Ruth Conklin, daughter of Stephen Conklin, who was born in Suffolk county, Long Island, 22d December, 1753, and died in Somerset county, N. J, 21st October, 1797.

2. Phebe married Rev. Francis Peppard, and lived in Sussex. [See Peppard.]

3. Polly, who died 19th February, 1822, aged 68 years, unmarried.

4. Sally married Moses Allen, removed to Crawford county, Pennsylvania, 18 miles west of Meadville, and had children:

    1. Stephen Whitaker Allen; 2. Jeremy Allen. 
5. Rebecca, born 10th May, 1754, married William Conklin, Esq. son of Stephen. Mr. Conklin was an elder in the Presbyterian church at Basking Ridge. [See Conklin.]

6. Jonathan 3d married Mary Mitchel, had 13 children, and removed to Warren county, Ohio, about 1800.

7. Nathaniel, born June, 1758, and married, June, 1787, Hannah Drake, daughter of John Drake, of Mendham, and had a daughter, Sally, who married Garret Voorhies, Esq. His wife Hannah died December, 1794, and he married, 2d, Ruth Haines, daughter of Samuel Haines, near Vealtown, and had a daughter, Hannah, who married Nicholas Arrowsmith, Jun. Esq.

Nathaniel Whitaker died 27th October, 1841, and his widow Ruth died 10th November, 1844.

Jonathan Whitaker, Jun. died 1785, aged 73 years.

WILLIAM CONKLIN, 3d, (2d child of Stephen Conklin, 1st,) and Rebecca Whitaker, lived at Basking Ridge. He was a tanner and currier; had a farm and a tan-yard, and was a Justice of the Peace. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church there. They had children:

1. Phebe, born 29th Sept. 1779, and died aged 6 years.

2. Stephen, 3d, born 3d Feb. 1782, married, January, 1807, 1st, Sally Coriell, daughter of Elias, of Long Hill. He married, 2d, Catherine Tailor, 15th August, 1809, daughter of Willet Tailor, of Raritan.

3. Jonathan, born 28th October, 1783, married Apha Colie, daughter of Daniel, of Springfield.

4. Mary, born 7th October, 1785, married, 6th May, 1809, John Littell, son of Nathaniel, of New Providence, [See Nathaniel Littell.]

5. William, 4th, born 23d August, 1787, married Ketura Green, and had no children. He married, 2d, Cornelia, widow of Elias Sturges, and daughter of Thomas Goltra, near Liberty Corner.

6. Joseph, born 28th Nov. 1789, married Viletta Hampton, daughter of James, of Woodbridge.

7. Isaac, 3d, born 24th Jan. 1792, married Sarah Hall, daughter of Richard.

8. Nathaniel, born 5th March, 1794, married Emily Halsey Fitch, daughter of Col. Grant Fitch, of Newton, Sussex Co.

9. Sarah, born 2d Oct. 1796, married, in New-York, James S. Rose, and has a son, James Augustus Rose, who married Caroline Drake, daughter of Reuben Drake, near Woodbridge, who lives at Amboy, is a butcher, and has children:

    1. Mary Margaret Rose; 2. Anne Eliza Rose, born 17th Nov 
      1847. 
William Conklin, Esq., died in a fit, in his bark-house, on the 14th February, 1803.