SWRL Reunion WV Sun, July 9, 2023

 

 

Joe Whitney and George Schneider Circa. 1952

This is a picture of Joe Whitney and George Schneider down the road from where we lived on Warren Rd. in Mohawk, roughly in 1952. It is the corner of Warren Rd. and Pettingill St. Joe has his hands behind his back and George's arms are sticking out under Joe's armpits. George lived next door to us and was roughly Joe's age. He lived with his mother and father, Joe. Mary Maranville Ratajack sent me this picture on June 17, 2022. The boys are playing on the Maranville's front lawn. Mary is my age and lived there with her older sister, Ellen (2 yr older), her mother, Lura (we called her Marandy), and her father, Harry. Harry was from Vermont and still had the New England accent. He worked at Remington Arms in Ilion and was a fishing and hunting buddy of my father. The Whitney's and the Maranvilles were close friends and we spent a lot of time together. I remember we rented a camp together on Otsego Lake near Cooperstown for a week in the summer when I was 8 or 9. Lura was a great cook and made the best molasses cookies I have ever had. Harry was several years older than Lura, and after he passed, she worked as the housekeeper and cook at the Catholic parsonage in Ilion.

 

Aunt Edith at Piseco Lake

Speculator, NY  1942

"I didn't catch these!"

 

Jon, Cheri, and Joe Whitney

at home on Warren Road, Mohawk, NY

about 1948

 

Nancy Hubbell Whitney and Stephen Whitney

  Christmas at Grandma Whitney's house in Mohawk, NY  about 1979.  

Fathers Day 2019

He Left Us Too Early...

We Remember Him Dearly.

Keegan Whitney Graduation from North Park University in Chicago - 5/11/19

The Mohawk, NY Flood of 1950

 Joe and Jon Whitney?

Caption courtesy of E. Hassett from FB

The Old Mohawk-Turnpike Book published in 1924 by the Knox Gelatin Co.

All the orange links in this Table of Contents work. Great piece of history...printed in 1924 and distributed by the Knox Gelatin Company. Here is the link:
 http://fulton.nygenweb.net/Turnpike/Turnpike.html

Dr. Diss about 1910

Jon Whitney sez: Dr. Diss sewed up a ripped ear that I got from a neighbor's Boston terrier in 1946 when I was 5. The doctor did his sewing at the Ilion Hospital. Nice, pleasant older man.

My father, Chuck Whitney, and Dahlia poles

Jon Whitney says:

Grampa John Lindsay and the Acme Road Machinery Company

Jon Whitney says:

The Mohawk Trolley Hookup to Oneonta Fight

The Mohawk Trolley

Notice the ladder leaning against the bridge at the left of the picture.

Look carefully and you can make out a man on that same ladder probably painting the top front of the bridge.