Genealogy, Eddy-Rizenthaler Families, undated

Included within the Eddy papers are legal papers dealing with William W. Whitney (1806‑1872), founder of Kipton, Ohio. Whitney moved from Binghamton, New York, to Camden in 1834, owned the land where the first railroad station was placed in the 1850s, and laid out the town of Kipton, within Camden Township, which he initially named Binghamton. Reuben Eddy was a friend, legal guardian, and then executor of Whitney's estate. (See History of Lorain County, 1879, pp. 291 and 295 for information on Eddy and Whitney.) Ten items relating to Whitney in the Eddy papers include legal guardianship over the insane Whitney (1868, 1870); Whitney's accounts with local businessman J.A. Groot (1865‑1871); two wills of Whitney (1862 and 1872); an inventory of the Whitney estate (1872); and a record of the public sale of Whitney's personal property at auction (1873).

Note:Entry taken from William E. Bigglestone's unpublished "[preliminary] Guide to the Oberlin College Archives," which was prepared as individual entry sheets in a three-ring binder during the early 1980s.