The Whitehouse Family

An Engineer at the turn of the nineteenth century would have worked on steam engines in the mills and mines of the Black Country.

BRAHAM WHITEHOUSE was born in the late 18^th century, probably in Tipton, Staffordshire, England. Circumstantial evidence suggests that he was the Abraham, age 31, of China Row in Tipton who was buried 23 August 1823 in the parish churchyard. Deaths of other Abraham Whitehouses recorded at Tipton and Dudley before 1837 as well as in the Registration District of Dudley between 1837 and 1851 have been tracked and eliminated as ours.
Abraham was married to MARY ----- but no marriage record has yet been confirmed as their's. The only possible one found is the marriage of an Abraham Whitehouse to Mary Webster at Rowley Regis 26 January 1815. Mary was listed as a widow on the 1851 census, but no indication was given on the 1841 census even though Abraham was not listed with the household. His profession was given as Engineer on son George's marriage record in 1838 and Engineman on daughter Elizabeth's 1850 marriage record. Marriage records sometimes gave the condition of the father, but it wasn't universal and the absence of the designation "deceased" is no evidence to the contrary. The same holds for the appellation "widow" in the census records.
According to the record of the 1851 census, Mary was born in Stourbridge, in the parish of Kingswinford, Staffordshire in 1795 or 1796. At the time she was living on Lower Green, Tipton with daughter Elizabeth and her husband. Next door was son George and his family. Mary appears to have died sometime before the 1861 census was taken.

Children of Abraham Whitehouse and Mary ----- :

GEORGE WHITEHOUSE, baptized 28 January 1816 at St. Thomas Parish Church, Dudley, Worcestershire, England though the family resided in Tipton. He married SARAH WHITEHOUSE on 22 April 1838 in Sedgley. On 8 January 1856 George died, a day after a fall down the stairs at home that broke his back.
THOMAS WHITEHOUSE, baptized 1 March 1818 at St. Thomas Parish Church, Dudley though the family resided in Tipton. There may have been two sons born to the name Thomas. The Thomas of later records appears to have been born in mid to late 1819, but no burial or baptismal record has been found at Dudley, Tipton or West Bromwich to support a second Thomas. He married Mary Ann Hodgets in 1842 at Rowley Regis St. Giles and died at Temple Street, West Bromwich 6 February 1861, aged 41 years, and was buried in the churchyard at Christ Church, West Bromwich. Thomas was occupied as a Dresser of Castings like his brother George. Mary Ann died 13 August 1885, aged 62 years.

Children: HANNAH, born about 1843, married Edward T. Bickley and moved to Lorain, Ohio in the 1880's. Their eldest daughter, Sarah, was enumerated with her grandmother on the 1871 census; GEORGE, Iron Dresser, born 21 January 1845 and baptized 2 March that year at Dudley, married Harriet Withers who died 2 March 1892, aged 44 years; EDWIN, born 20 December 1846 and baptized at Dudley 31 January 1847, married Elizabeth -----, Church of England missionary to India for 5 years, then to New Zealand in 1884, died there 22 August 1934; THOMAS, Iron Dresser, born 3 November 1848 and baptized at Dudley 28 January 1849, married Florrie Noch; EMMA, born about 1850; ELIZA, born about 1852; JOHN HODGETS, an "invalid from birth" according to the 1871 census, died 1 April 1876 in his 21st year. The monument inscription reads: "After a life of affliction he rests in peace."; EDWARD, born about 1857; MELINDA, died 7 July 1878, aged 17 years.
ELIZABETH WHITEHOUSE, baptized 21 January 1821 at St. Martin's parish church Tipton, Staffordshire and married Thomas Corbet, laborer/boatman, 7 January 1850.

Children: ESTHER ANN, born about 1852; HANNAH, born about 1855; LYDIA, born about 1857.

EORGE WHITEHOUSE, the son of Abraham and Mary Whitehouse, was born in late 1815 in Tipton, Staffordshire, England and baptized on 28 January 1816 at St. Thomas Parish Church, Dudley. He married SARAH WHITEHOUSE at the Parish Church in Sedgley, Staffordshire on 22 April 1838.
    George had variously been listed in records as a Gun Finisher, Gun Dresser, Iron Dresser and, on the 1851 census, Dresser of Iron Pipes &c. The baptismal records of his eight children at St. Thomas, Dudley over the years 1839 to 1854, show George to be a Gun Dresser on all but Herbert's where his occupation was given as Iron Dresser. However, the birth certificates for George Jr., in 1852, and Walter, in 1854, record him as an Iron Dresser.
     He last worked for Messrs. J & S Roberts of the Swan and Small Heath Foundry, Swan Village, West Bromwich, the latter appellation connecting it with the original 1823 foundry at Bromwich Heath near the center of West Bromwich. At its founding the firm was chiefly concerned with the production of general castings for the engineering trade, but later began to specialise in the manufacture of cast iron gas and water pipes. It was probably this later expansion that necessitated the removal, before 1851, of the foundry to larger property at Swan Village. Here works were erected on land enclosed by the canal, the turnpike road to Dudley, Victoria Street and Phoenix Street. Another prominent foundry at the time was the Walker Brothers' Gospel Oak Ironworks at Tipton. They were ironfounders who were producing cannon and shot for the British Army at the time of the Crimean War, 1854-55.
     The likely scenario is that George apprenticed as a Gun Finisher and worked at the Gospel Oak Ironworks in Tipton until J & S Roberts opened its new foundry at Swan Village, where he sought better opportunity with similar work, while always considering himself a Gun Finisher.
     It appears that the family continued to live near the center of Tipton until sometime after Walter's birth in late 1854. On 8 January 1856 George died, at Ryders Green, West Bromwich a day after a fall down the stairs at home that broke his back. The 1861 and 1871 censuses showed the family on Phoenix Street, but no house number was given. In 1881 Sarah and her sister Caroline were at number 95 Phoenix Street. Family lore has it that George died at this house, The Old Packet as the children would later call their old home. It was at the end of Phoenix Steet near the bridge over the canal where the road changes to Ryders Green. The coroner may have made a mistake on the death certificate.

Children of George Whitehouse and Sarah Whitehouse :

MARIA WHITEHOUSE was born 21 August 1839 in Tipton and baptized 8 September at St. Thomas, Dudley. She married John Haynes at the Parish Church in Tipton, 23 November 1862. John was born April 1840 at Warmington, Warwickshire but was residing in Tipton at the time of his marriage. John and the Bert arrived in New York 24 August 1882 and stayed with Walter and family until they earned enough money to bring the rest of the family the following year. Maria was said to have worn the pants in the family and first ran a boarding house on the southeast corner of Clark Street and Lexington Avenue for men working mostly at the Round House and Brass Works. Maria later built a larger house on 11th Street (now E. 29th) between vine and Globe near the new steel plant. The 1900 Lorain census first listed Maria as head of household with John the husband, then those designations were crossed out and John made the head and Maria listed as the wife. When that work became too much they sold out and went to Cleveland and bought a small general store which they operated with the help of their daughter Thirza. It was there that they died, Maria in 1920 and John in 1917. They are both buried on Cleveland's west side.

Children: JOSEPH HERBERT, "Bert", born 24 April 1863 at Tipton, married firstly, 23 April 1889 Lucy Mindwell Hannum (born 22 July 1865 and died 5 November 1933) and secondly, 2 July 1935 Ellen Elizabeth White Florence, his sweetheart from his teenage years in England (died 9 July 1943), and died 20 August 1961 at Springfield, Ohio; JOHN EDWARD, born 22 September 1865 at West Bromwich, married Jessie W. Squires (born 22 April 1882 and died 25 February 1953) and died 2 June 1944 at Coraopolis, Pennsylvania - no issue; THIRZA, born 21 August 1867 at West Bromwich, married 3 April 1889, Joseph Didero (born February 1850 and died 1918) and died in Cleveland, Ohio 5 January 1960; SARAH ELIZABETH, born 26 November 1876 at West Bromwich, married 31 January 1900, Henry Hawkins, Boiler Maker, and died in 1936 - no issue.
THIRZA WHITEHOUSE was born 26 June 1841 at Tipton and baptized 25 July of the same year at St. Thomas, Dudley. She died of "Phthisis" (probably TB) at age 17 on 16 March 1859 at Swan Village, West Bromwich.
HERBERT WHITEHOUSE was born 7 September 1844 at Tipton and baptized 24 November that year at St. Thomas, Dudley. He married firstly in 1866 at Holy Trinity, West Bromwich, Sarah Cranage the daughter of Adam Cranage and Leah Heartland. Sarah was born 11 August 1840 at Tipton and died 23 September 1893 at Phoenix Street, West Bromwich. He married secondly, Louisa ----- who lived to the advanced age of 92, dying 27 February 1939. Herbert was a Fitter by occupation and by 1881 had become the forman of the fitter shop at J & S Roberts foundry in Swan Village. He died at Phoenix Street, Swan Village, West Bromwich on 23 September 1901 and is buried at Heath Lane Cemetery, West Bromwich.

Children: GEORGE HENRY, born 27 June 1876, married firstly 6 April 1901 Mabel Florence "Florrie" Gurmin who died 12 April 1912 at age 36, and secondly in 1913 to Kitty Cole. He died in a plane crash in Belgium, July 1937; ALICE JANE, born 9 December 1880 and died 16 December 1890; CAROLINE ELIZABETH, "Carrie", born 26 April 1883. With her passage paid by an Aunt, Carrie left Liverpool for America 28 September 1904 on board the S. S. Majestic and arrived in New York on the 5th of October. The passenger list gave her last address as "50 Phoenix St. West Bromwich" and that she was "to join Aunt, Mrs. John Haynes, 453 11th Av. South, Lorain, Ohio, U.S."
EDWIN WHITEHOUSE was born 10 November 1846 at Tipton and baptized 28 February 1847 at St. Thomas, Dudley and married his cousin Emma Betts 4 May 1872 at Tipton. The family emigrated to Lorain, Ohio in 1886: from William Care's diary, "Edwin Whitehouse left for America with family 11 August 1886" and passenger records show that they arrived in New York on board the S. S. Britannic 23 August 1886, a passage of 12 days. Edwin was occupied as an Engine Fitter in England and was a machinist for the B & O Railroad in Lorain. At some point before 1889, presumably in a shop accident, he lost his left eye and from then on most pictures of him are in profile. After retiring from the shop, Edwin became a Janitor at the Public Library. Edwin died 11 November 1928 at Lorain and was buried at Ridgelawn Cemetery in neighboring Elyria. The 1900 U. S. Census record indicates that there were three children born to Edwin and Emma, two of whom were then surviving.

Children: SARAH ELIZABETH, "Lil", born 22 March 1873 at Tipton and died 28 January 1950. Lil was a school teacher and remained unmarried and was buried at Ridgelawn Cemetery, Elyria. There is a nice list of next of kin, mostly cousins, in her estate file at Lorain County who were to be notified that her will was to be probated with the Court; WALTER BETTS, born 20 September 1874 at West Bromwich and married Augusta Wilhelmina Weber, "Gussie", but had no children. Gussie was born 10 February 1875 and died no earlier than February 1950 in Cleveland. Walter died 12 April 1923 and was buried at Ridgelawn Cemetery, Elyria.
ELIZA WHITEHOUSE, otherwise Lizzie, was born 7 December 1848 at Tipton and baptized 18 February 1849 at St. Thomas, Dudley. She married, 24 December 1871, Edward "Ted" Smith the son of Isaac and Esther Smith of West Bromwich, born 11 November 1846 at Tipton and died 14 April 1926 at Lorain, Ohio. The family came to America on board the SS Germania from Liverpool, along with the Walter Whitehouse family, docking at New York 28 May 1881. The Smiths stayed a day or two in New York to see one of Ted's cousins, a jeweler with the last name Murphy. Edward was an engine fitter/machinist and was working at the steel mill at the time of the 1910 census. Lizzie operated a Millinery shop for some time and in 1900 had a boarder named Ola Sorence, Milliner, who presumably worked for her. Ted was an accomplished flutist and had, what has been described as, a beautiful tenor voice. All the Smith children were fine musicians also, and Ted organized a family orchestra, adding several of his children's cousins from both the Smith and Whitehouse sides of the family: Jennie - piano; Annie - violin; Sid - clarinet; Floss - viola; Fred - piccolo/cello; John Haynes - trombone; Bert Butler - trombone; Frank Whitehouse - flute; Horace Whitehouse - violin; Joe Smith - trumpet. Lizzie died 8 August 1936 at Lorain and along with her husband is buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Lorain.

Children: SARAH JANE, "Jennie", born 24 October 1872 at West Bromwich, married firstly 24 April 1895 to Benjamin Franklin Hewitt and secondly to William Eva, and died 2 September 1954 at Lorain; MARY ELLEN, "Nellie", born 22 November 1873 at West Bromwich and died 9 November 1882 at Lorain. The 1881 English census gave her condition as "Imbecile from birth" indicating some sort of mental retardation; ESTHER ANN, "Annie", born 25 June 1875 at West Bromwich, married 31 January 1900 to Charles Elwood Arnold, Chemist, (born 9 January 1876, died September 1947) and died 8 November 1945 at Wilmington, Delaware; CHARLES SYDNEY, "Sid", born 26 March 1878 at West Bromwich, married 25 September 1914 to Mabel Isaacson (born 1885, died 3 March 1919), and died 12 March 1953 in Ohio; AGNES FLORENCE, "Floss", born 25 February 1880 at West Bromwich and died in Ohio - unmarried; EARL FREDERICK, "Fred", born 27 October 1882 at Lorain, married 18 June 1913 to Alice Marilla Lander (born 31 January 1886, died 17 December 1937) and died 15 November 1925 also at Lorain. Fred was a Physician.
AGNES SARAH WHITEHOUSE was born 8 October 1850 at Tipton and baptized 8 December the same year at St. Thomas, Dudley. She married 7 September 1872 to Samuel Butler, born 26 July 1850 in England and died 10 September 1928 at Lorain, Ohio. Sam and Agnes were the first of the Whitehouse clan to come to America, having left England 22 June 1880. Sam was an engine fitter/machinist and was working at the steel plant in 1910.

Children: HERBERT, "Bert", born 9 July 1873 in England, married Hattie B. Richards 12 May 1896 and died 22 March 1944 at Arcadia, California; LOUISA AGNES, born 24 April 1875 and died in October 1879 of "Scarletina" at Jervoise Street, West Bromwich. She was buried at Heath Lane Cemetery, West Bromwich, 10 October 1879; ALICE MARIA, born 8 January 1877 in England, married January 1900 to Fred Wallace Miller (born 6 December 1877, died 26 September 1961) and died 10 October 1963 at Medford, Oregon; FRANK, born 1880 in U.S. and died young; FLORA MAY, born 25 February 1892 at Lorain, Ohio, married 23 March 1918 to Charles Byrd White (born 2 June 1894) and died 1 September 1972 at Hollywood, Florida.
GEORGE WHITEHOUSE was born 19 October 1852 at Lock Side, Tipton and baptized 9 January 1853 at St. Thomas, Dudley. He married, some time before 1877, Hannah Cranage, born 9 November 1852 at Tipton. In 1881 George was occupied as an "Iron Founder's Clerk", probably for J & S Roberts, but earlier he was a pattern maker. His toolbox has survived and has been donated to a museum. The family first lived on Great Bridge Street, West Bromwich, but later moved into the "Old Packet" at number 95 Phoenix Street. George seems to have made a forrey into photography since cabinet cards exist with ---- embossed at the bottom. In 1906 George made a visit to America to visit relatives and see the sights. He intended to stay six weeks but stayed six months. Hannah refused to make the ocean crossing. A number of photographs were taken of "Uncle George" with each of the American Whitehouse families. George died 18 November 1921 at West Bromwich.

Children: JOHN FREDERICK, "Fred", born 6 October 1877 at West Bromwich, married Florence Gertrude Walters Richards, and died 8 August 1944; GEORGE ERNEST, "Ernie", born 8 November 1878 at West Bromwich, married cousin Alice Betts (born 6 May 1877, died 1955), and died 14 October 1952.
WALTER WILLIAM WHITEHOUSE was born 30 September 1854 at Lower Green, Tipton, Staffordshire, England and baptized 3 December 1854 at St. Thomas, Dudley. He married MARY LEES DAVIS at Carters Green Methodist Chapel, West Bromwich the 25th day of November 1878.

ALTER WILLIAM WHITEHOUSE was born 30 September 1854 in Tipton, Staffordshire, England and baptized 3 December 1854 at St. Thomas Parish Church, Dudley. He married MARY LEES DAVIS at Carters Green Methodist Chapel, West Bromwich the 25th day of November 1878. The family, Walter, Mary, Frank and Horace came to America in May of 1881 on board the S.S. Germania from Liverpool. It is said that he had thoughts of emigrating to Australia, but his mother is quoted to have said, "Walter, I shall never see you again if you go so very far away. If you must leave here, go to be with the others." Walter filed a letter of intent for citizenship at Elyria 3 November 1888 and became a naturalized citizen 7 March 1891.

Birth certificate for Walter William Whitehouse [without certifications] [above] and the record of his baptism at St. Thomas' Parish Church, "Dudley Top", Dudley [right].

Walter William Whitehouse
c. 1874

Letters to Horace

He had been occupied most of his life in the mills of West Bromwich and Lorain. He apprenticed at the J & S Roberts Foundry in West Bromwich where his father had worked and his brothers also got their starts. Walter was listed as an Engine Fitter on the 1881 English census and, perhaps synonymously, as a Mechanic on Horace's birth certificate earlier that year.
In 1881 the Nickel Plate Railroad joined another small line servicing Lorain, Ohio. In January of that year the Joel Hayden Brass Company relocated its operations from Haydensville, Massechusetts to Lorain and became the first important industry not based on transportation. Walter and more than 400 other workers made the brass works Lorain's largest employer by 1883. Largely due to this one company, the population of Lorain ballooned from 1,600 in 1880 to more than 3,200 just sixteen months later. In 1890 the population was 4,863 of which nearly one quarter were foreign born. Electricity arrived in Lorain in 1891 and in 1892 the 6,000 inhabitants of the city also began to be served by a new sanitary sewer system. However, no treatment plant came with the sewer and the Typhoid death rate soared while the sewerage was being pumped directly into the Black River. The nation's economic troubles pushed the brass works into financial difficulty and in 1893 the employees had to work over two months without pay. The company never fully recovered and finally had to close its doors a decade later. Walter appears to have been with Hayden Brass at least until 1900 when he was recorded as a Machinist on the federal census of Lorain. On the next census of 1910 his occupation was given as Foreman in a Steam Shovel Works. The Thew Automatic Steam Shovel Company was operating in Lorain by 1903 when it was employing 175 workers. Walter worked for Thew until he retired, but in addition served for a time as a Republican member of the Lorain Water Works Board.

From the City Directories for Lorain:

1891	Whitehouse, Walter	machinist	19 East Erie
1896	Whitehouse, Walter W.	machinist	74 Second Ave
1897	Whitehouse, Walter W.	machinist	old no. 74 Second Ave
1899-1900	Whitehouse, A. A. (sic)	master machinist	507 Second Ave
1903-1904	Whitehouse, Walter	member Board of Public Service	507 Second Ave
1905	Whitehouse, Walter (Mary)	supt	507 2nd Ave
1906	Whitehouse, Walter W (Mary L)	machinist, member Board of Public Service	507 Second Ave
1912	Whitehouse, Walter W (Mary) * 3	master mechanic T S Co	1007 9th
1915-1916	Whitehouse, Walter W (Mary) * 2	T S Co	1007 9th
1919-1920	Whitehouse, Walter W (Mary)	Supt. Maintenance Thew Shovel Co	1062 10th St.
1924	Whitehouse, Walter W (Mary L)		707 Hamilton Ave.

The family lived at number 21 Jervoise Street, Swan Village, West Bromwich before emigrating and, over the years, at a dozen residences in Lorain. Walter was an active member of the First Methodist Church and there is a lecturn in a side chapel that bears a memorial to Walter and Mary. He died 16 April 1928 in Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio and is buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Lorain.

Children of Walter William Whitehouse and Mary Lees Davis :

FRANK WHITEHOUSE was born 15 September 1879 at Swan Village, West Bromwich and married 18 August 1910 to May Belle MacIntire, born 8 December 1882 and died December 1982. Frank was an educator and school administrator and died 4 April 1969.

Children: ELIZABETH, born 27 July 1914 and died -----, unmarried; WALTER MACINTIRE, "Bud" born 28 January 1916 and married firstly 27 January 1945 to Barbara Norton McIntyre (born 28 January 1917, died 1 March 1975) and secondly 31 July 1976 to Rebecca Taylor Sturtevant (born 2 March 1922). Walter died -----; FRANK, born 20 November 1924 and married 21 August 1951 to Helen Alice Schimkat (born 24 February 1927).
HORACE WHITEHOUSE was born 25 January 1881 in Swan Village, West Bromwich and baptized at the Weslyan Methodist Chapel in Swan Village the 17th day of April 1881. He married EMMA REMPFER on 3 February 1916 in Parkston, South Dakota. Horace died 27 July 1958 in Evanston, Illinois.
EDNA MARY WHITEHOUSE was born 9 July 1885 at Lorain, Ohio. She was educated in the Lorain Public Schools and graduated from Lake Erie College, Painsville and attended the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, when brother Horace was there. Edna married 10 March 1915 to Frank Kivil Ayres, born 10 October 1883 and died 10 April 1976. She was the family genealogist and historian of several generations with a keen interest in the family. Edna died 11 January 1978.

Children: FRANK WHITEHOUSE, born 5 December 1916 and married 27 May 1951 to Ruth Ellen Gosnell, born 4 June 1930.
ELLEN ELIZABETH WHITEHOUSE was born 24 April 1891 at Lorain, Ohio. The birth was recorded at Elyria under the name Nellie, but an affidavit, dated 24 February 1939, was filed by her mother, presumably in connection with the new Social Security Act, giving her name as Ellen Elizabeth. She married 7 June 1911 to Ralph Murbach, born 18 December 1887 and died 16 January 1987 at Elyria. Ellen died 10 June 1982 at Elyria, Ohio.

Children: MARY ELLEN, "Molly", born 21 August 1912 and married 23 February 1935 to Erie DeGrasse Chapman, Jr. (born 16 March 1905); MADGE, born 8 February 1914 and married 2 April 1938 to Lyman Robert Wells, born 13 August 1914; ANN, born 17 June 1918 and married 4 January 1941 to Russel William Schmittgen, born 13 June 1916; JOHN WHITEHOUSE, born 20 November 1922 and married 24 August 1944 to Ruth Marilyn Peregrine, born 16 October 1922.
ADELAIDE DAVIS WHITEHOUSE was born 16 June 1897 at Lorain, Ohio and died of Diphtheria 27 June 1904 also at Lorain. The death appears not to have been recorded.

ORACE WHITEHOUSE was born 25 January 1881 in Swan Village, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England and baptized at the Weslyan Methodist Chapel in Swan Village the 17th of April 1881. He was brought to America as an infant, in May of 1881, and grew up within the extended family of the five Whitehouse siblings that came to Lorain, Ohio, all about that time.
After graduating from Lorain High School, Horace attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, graduating there in 1904 but continuing with post graduate work until 1906. He held the position of Assistant Organist and Choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church from 1904 until he left Boston in 1909 to become the Dean of Fine Arts, Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas. During the nine years at Washburn Horace also studied at the Paris Conservatory of Music (1911), conducted the Musical Arts Society of Topeka, and served as a guest Professor at the University of California (1917) and made time to marry EMMA REMPFER, the daughter of Christian Rempfer and Christina Krein, on the very cold day of 3 February 1916 in Parkston, South Dakota. In 1918 the family moved to Delaware, Ohio where Horace held the position of Director of the College of Music at Ohio Wesleyan University until moving to Indianapolis, Indiana in 1921. In Indianapolis he was on the staff at the Jordan School of Music, conducted the Indianapolis Oratorio Society and was Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Episcopal Church. The family spent a year from 1926 to 1927 in Boulder, Colorado while Horace was the Dean of the College of Music, University of Colorado. He continued with his church music as organist of the First Baptist Church of Boulder.
Evanston, Illinois became home in 1927 when Horace went to Northwestern University to teach Theory, Organ and Church and Choral Music. He again found a second home as Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Episcopal Church in Winnetka, Illinois from 1932 until 1945. Horace retired from Northwestern in 1949 and continued to reside at 1742 Asbury Lane until his death, at home, 27 July 1958.

Children of Horace Whitehouse and Emma Rempfer :

ROBERT REMPFER WHITEHOUSE, born 16 February 1917 in Topeka, Kansas and died 15 August 1938 in Dilley, Texas during training for the Army Air Corps.
BARBARA WHITEHOUSE, born 25 July 1918 in Topeka, Kansas and married 1 August 1944 in Evanston, Illinois to John Robert Eshbach, born 7 October 1922 the son of Ovid Wallace Eshbach and Clara Elizabeth Ortt both of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. Barbara died 5 October 1988 in Schenectady, New York.

Children: ELLEN, born 1945; CAROLINE, born 1947; ROBERT WHITEHOUSE, born 1950; ADELAIDE, born 1956.
MARTHA WHITEHOUSE, born 28 December 1919 in Delaware, Ohio and married firstly 16 January 1942 Stanley Peter Klores, born 3 May 1915 and killed in action in the south Pacific 3 December 1944.

  Children:   STANLEY WHITEHOUSE, born 1942;   JUDITH, born 1945.

   Married secondly 24 December 1948 Benjamin Amos Snyder, born 18 July 1915, died 20 February 1962.

  Children:   THOMAS EARL, born 1949;   MEREDITH, born 1955.

  Martha died 10 November 1988 in Williamsburg, Virginia.
HORACE DAVIS WHITEHOUSE, born 25 October 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana and married firstly 26 August 1944 Lindley Parker, divorced 16 June 1956.

Children: PAMELA, born 1945; REBECCA, born 1949.

Horace married secondly Deborah Ewing Gunther, born 1940, and he died 20 November 1986 in Evanston, Illinois.
REMPFER LEES WHITEHOUSE, otherwise Jack, born 10 December 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, married firstly 29 Novemer, 1947 Frances Irene Duncan, born 28 September 1919 the only child of Frank Duncan and Sally Keebaugh, died March 1995.

Children: MARTHA MARY, born 1948; CHRISTINA LOUISE, born 1950; WALTER WILLIAM, born 1951; TIMOTHY DUNCAN, born 1952; ADELAIDE FRANCES, born 1954; DAVID REMPFER, born 1955; HORACE, "Jay", born 1957.

Jack married secondly Mary Rose -----, born 1947.
PHILIP KREIN WHITEHOUSE was born 24 June 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He married BARBARA ANNE LIGHTNER on 28 October 1950 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
ADELAIDE WHITEHOUSE, born 12 November 1925 in Indianapolis, Indiana, married Kyle Woodhouse Chapman 23 October 1954 in Evanston, Illinois.

Children: KENNERLY, born 1958; KRESSEN, born 1959; KAYLEN, born 1961.
AGATHA WHITEHOUSE, otherwise Dolly, born 30 June 1928 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, married firstly 24 August 1949 Robert Edwin Twining, born 3 April 1924, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Children: RUTH KING, born 1950; WILLIAM ROBERT, born 1953; ROBERT EDWIN, born 1954; THIRZA, born 1955; ELLEN JEAN, born 1956; HERBERT WHITEHOUSE, born 1958.

Dolly married secondly 11 June 1974 Eugene William Seele, born 1 March 1919.
DAVID REMPFER WHITEHOUSE, born 13 November 1929 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, married in Boston, 23 June 1956 Ruth Agnes Walker, born 26 January.

Children: WALKER PHILIP, born 1961; LAURA LEES, born 1964; SANFORD DAVIS, born 1971.

HILIP KREIN WHITEHOUSE was born 24 June 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana, the sixth child of Horace Whitehouse and Emma Rempfer. He was educated in the Evanston, Illinois public schools, graduating from Evanston Township High School in June of 1942. With the idea of following in his brother Bob's footstepts, Philip took and passed the mental and physical tests for entry into the Army Air Corps, but was unable to enlist at age 18 without parental concent. He therefore started college at Northwestern University and enlisted in the Naval ROTC Program offered at that time. He was sworn into the service on 1 July 1943. Because he was already in the service he could and did transfer into the flight program over his parents' objections. Training to become a Naval (or Marine Corps) Aviator, Philip went from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Wooster, Ohio to Iowa City, Iowa to Norman, Oklahoma to Corpus Christi, Texas where in March of 1946 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps with wings of gold. He was then stationed in Fort Lauderdale and Miami for operational training in military aircraft, then on to Pensacola, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico for carrier qualification. The next phase saw him stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro, California in an operational Marine Fighter Squadron. He tried very hard to stay in the Marine Corps at this time but was released to the reserves because of the congressional cutbacks after the war. Very few Marine squadrons survived, so he returned to Evanston and Northwestern University in June 1947 to complete the requirements for a mathematics degree. Working for a construction company following his 1948 graduation, and with only a prospective teaching career in view, Philip convinced himself that a Civil Engineering degree was in his best interest - so back to school at Northwestern.
     One day in early 1950 sister Adelaide brought home a teacher friend for dinner. BARBARA ANNE LIGHTNER was her name and, incidentally, was nephew Stanley Klores' teacher. There were not many sparks generated even after the first date - not her fault, but his. After much cajoling and nagging by sisters Adelaide and Martha, he asked her for another date and to his surprise she accepted. They were engaged on Memorial Day, 1950 with the wedding planned for June 195l since he was still in school. Philip's parents had been in Forth Worth, Texas all year and were a little upset about his being engaged to a girl they had never seen. Barbara, born 28 June 1928 in East Orange, New Jersey, was the daughter of Angus LeRoy Lightner and Grace Darling Thompson of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania; and how they were upset. After dating for some months, using buses and borrowed cars, they decided it would be a lot easier to get married earlier than the following June.
     Philip and Barbara were married 28 October 1950 at St. Paul's Methodist Church in Reading, Pennsylvania. One can but imagine how different the family would look had they waited those extra months. Passing on a honeymoon, they began married life in a not too livable basement apartment in the Whitehouse home at 1742 Asbury Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. Philip graduated from Northwestern in 1951 and with his expectant wife moved to Forth Worth, Texas to work in the structural engineering section of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation (ConVAir) at $1.95/hr. They resided at 3100 Darnell Avenue in a cockroach infested small apartment. After working on the B-58 and B-60 Bombers for one year he was called back into the Marine Corps - the Korean war was well underway. Following several quick moves he went ahead to Opa-Locka, Florida where he was later joined by the rest of the small family. Then to Hollywood, Florida for a brief stay to be checked out in the new Marine Corps jets, namely the F9F Panther and the F2H Banshee. Philip then joined Marine Corps Squadron VMJ-1 at K-3 Airbase near Pohang, Korea while the family returned to Evanston and Wyomissing. At war's end it was back to Illinois where he went to work for a large residential developer, L.W. Besinger, in Carpentersville.
     Further residences of the family include: 5 Golf View Lane (1953-1957) and 1024 Oak Ridge Road (1957-1968) in Carpentersville, 735 Council Hill Road (1968-1977) in East Dundee, 40W411 Harper Drive, Hampshire (1977-1992) and two homes that he built on Hillsboro Drive in Huntley. During this period, in 1959, he started his own Engineering, Surveying and Construction Company. Hanover Ready-Mix Co. was started in 1963 as was Dundee Engineering, which was sold to son John on January 1, 1986. Retiring as of that date he has, nevertheless, built several homes and completed various small projects.

Children of Philip Krein Whitehouse and Barbara Anne Lightner :

ROBERT REMPFER WHITEHOUSE was born in 1951.
BARBARA WHITEHOUSE was born in 1952.
PAUL LIGHTNER WHITEHOUSE was born in 1953. He married BARBARA LYNN GILES in 1997 at the Church of the Nativity, Huntsville, Alabama.
JOHN THOMPSON WHITEHOUSE was born in 1955.
JANET WHITEHOUSE was born in 1956.
MARGARET WHITEHOUSE was born in 1958.
CHRISTIAN REMPFER WHITEHOUSE was born in 1960.
ANNE WHITEHOUSE was born in 1961.
MARTHA WHITEHOUSE was born in 1962.
THOMAS WICKLEIN WHITEHOUSE was born in 1964.
DAVID LIGHTNER WHITEHOUSE was born 18 January 1966 and died 26 October 1979.

AUL LIGHTNER WHITEHOUSE was born in 1953 and was married to BARBARA LYNN GILES in August 1997 at the Church of the Nativity in Huntsville, Alabama. Barbara was born in 1957 the daughter of William Giles and Carolyn Hester Ellwanger, both of Louisville, Kentucky.

Children of Barbara Lynn Giles and Richard Reid :

AMANDA CAROLINE REID, born in 1979.
WILLIAM TRAVIS REID, born in 1987.

Children of Paul Lightner Whitehouse and Barbara Lynn Giles :

PHILIP GILES WHITEHOUSE, born 1998.

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DESCENT FROM ABRAHAM WHITEHOUSE:
VI V IV III II I	Abraham Whitehouse married Mary Webster. George Whitehouse married Sarah Whitehouse. Walter William Whitehouse married Mary Lees Davis. Horace Whitehouse married Emma Rempfer. Philip Krein Whitehouse married Barbara Anne Lightner. Paul Lightner Whitehouse married Barbara Lynn Giles.