New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
/. R. WHITNEY DEAD.
Widozc, Once a Telephone Girl, Nay
Get Part of SEQ, 900 900.

After a months Illness. E. R. Whitney the
wealthy old Canadian who married young tel
ephone girl at the Grand Union Hotel only few
months ago. is dead. it was learned yesterday.
His funeral was held at Concord. n. H, where
his son lives. last Tuesday. Miss Anna Bennett.
his bride, undoubtedly will receive a large part
of fortune estimated at from 100000 TO
S20,o00.000. The will has not been probated
yet. and relatives and friends of the young
widow and Mr.. Whitney, who know its contents,
refuse to discuss it. possible fight over the
will by the sons has been suggested. but their
friends deprecate the idea.
Mr.. Whitney. who was about seventy years
DID, had suffered from Bright's disease for sew
eral months. He living at the Hotel Ma
jestic here until recently, when Drs. Hobrook
and George F. Shrady examined him and or
dered him to get out into the country. where he
could be free from any business. He and Mrs.
Whitney went TO Concord, but the old mans
health did not improve. He died on August 81.
Mrs. Whitney. who was with him almost every
minute of his Illness went after the funeral, to
her parents home, in Peekskill N 7.
Mr.. Whitney had large numbering and asphalt
interests. He we'll known in Montreal
where he had spent most of his time. On his
frequent trips TO this city he stayed at the Grand
Union Hotel, doing much business by telephone.
He noticed Miss Anna Bennett, who is twenty
two years old. A slight acquaintance grew until
the old man asked her to go to dinner with him
and to the theatre. Miss Bennett consented. and
he called for her at her home in Greenpoint-
After that he called there frequently. and often
took her to dinner at the Hotel Aston and TO
theatre. On May they married at st.
Cecelias. in Brooklyn, by Father McGoldrick.
who knew the girl. Mr.. Whitney gave her $780,
600 as marriage portion and check for SIS
GEO for her trousseau. At the wedding he gave
her a diamond sunburst and a check for $500.
After the ceremony they sailed for Europe.
where they made an extended tour. Returning.
they lived at the Majestic. pending the compile
ton of a fine house in Riverside Drive.
Mr.. Whitney's devotion to the girl evident
to all their friends He was with her almost
every day, and whenever possible took her to
the theatre or 10 restaurants and cafes. There
was some dissa tisfacticn at first between the
mother and Miss Bennett but this was settled
amicably. Miss Bennett did not tell the hotel
people whom she was TO marry when she left
her place, but Mr.. Whitney did.
I'm going to marry one of the prettiest ana
sweetest women in the world" said he. There's
no question of money in it; simply we love each
other. She took me for just what was to her
long before she knew that I had more than
enough for US TO live on
After the wedding il was said that Mr.. Whit
ney's two sons somewhat unfriendiy 10
Mrs. Whitney, bur this was denied. z r. Whit
ney, jr, man of middle age was said TO be-
lieve it was good thing for his father TO get
married.
The case of Miss Bennett and Mr. Whitney is
similar to that of Mrs. Goldie Mohr Wood and
Alan w Wood, who died three weeks ago Miss
Mohr was chorus girl in Weber & Ffeldss
Music Hall when Mr.. Wood married her. When
Mr.. Wood died his estate was appraised at S1O-
100000 At first it was said that a third Of the
estate would go to Mrs. Wood but after several
conferences between attorneys representing
Mrs. Wood and those representing the children
of Mr.. Wood it was later reported that Mrs.
Wood had accepted S2.50O.0 900 as her share of
the estate. She would have received one-ninth
of it under her husbands will.