David Whitney Jr.

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Shelia Wiseman

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03/26/2002

David Whitney Jr.

'The man who could out-lumber Paul Bunyan.' David Whitney bought Michigan and Wisconsin pine lands by the hundreds of thousands of acres for $3 to $50 an acre and made profits that sometimes equaled 100 times the original cost. When he died in 1900 he was the wealthiest man in Detroit with a fortune estimated at $15 million.

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David Whitney Jr. 1830 - 1900 Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

David Whitney Jr. was born in 1830 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts United States, and died at age 70 years old in 1900. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember David Whitney Jr..

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