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Valmore Augustus Whitaker

In office
October 1902 – 1903
Preceded by Edward S. Wilkinson
Succeeded by Frank D. Stafford

President
Mayor of
the North Adams, Massachusetts City Council

Religion Baptist[1]

Valmore Augustus Whitaker was born 14 March 1835 in North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States to Ezra Douglas Whitaker (1797-1889) and Amanda M Jones (1804-1875) and died 23 June 1919 North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States of unspecified causes. He married Sara Reins (-1871) 1867 . He married Emma Louise Beckwith (c1842-1904) December 1873 .

Valmore Augustus Whitaker (born March 14, 1835) was an American businessman and politician who served as a member and President of the city council[2] and as the Acting Mayor of North Adams, Massachusetts.

1905 election for mayor

In 1905 Whitaker was the Republican candidate for mayor, he lost to the Incumbent Mayor Marshall R. Ford.[3]


Children


Offspring of Valmore Augustus Whitaker and Emma Louise Beckwith (c1842-1904)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Ezra Douglas Whitaker (1874-1936)


 






Footnotes (including sources)

‡ General
¶ Death
  • "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:23TX-DLV : 13 March 2018), Valmore A Whitaker, 23 Jun 1919; citing Death, North Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, certificate number 185, page 201, State Archives, Boston.


Notes

  1. ^ Cooke, Rollin Hillyer (1906), Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Volume I, New York, NY: The Lewis Historical Publishing Co., p. 416. 
  2. ^ Cooke, Rollin Hillyer (1906), Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Volume I, New York, NY: The Lewis Historical Publishing Co., p. 415. 
  3. ^ The Hartford Courant (December 20, 1905), North Adams Democrats Re-elect Mayor, Hartford, Ct: The Hartford Courant, p. 1. 
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