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- !SOURCE: Fred E. Whipple, Whipple Genealogy (1926?). Transcribed by Ron Whipple and emailed to the Whipple Website 16 Dec 1998. Gives dates 1842-1889.
!OCCUPATION: "Engaged in the plumbing business for many years and had charge of the city water system and was active in other municipal affairs of the Village of Malone [N.Y.]." --F.E. Whipple/R. Whipple
!SOURCE: Email from Michael Whipple (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 12 Dec 2006. Cites records of Morningside Cemetery, Section H, Malone, Franklin County, New York (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~frgen/franklin/malone/morningside/morningside_sectionh.htm):SALLS / WHIPPLE Footstone: George E. 1871 - 1934 Footstone: Mary L. His Wife 1877 - 1918 Footstone: N. M. WHIPPLE 1844 - 1890 Footstone: Ruth A. His Wife 1844 - 1926
!SOURCE: "Captain John Whipple of Providence, Rhode Island, 1616-1685" by Floy S. Hyde. (Mountain View, NY, 1984), p. 37, 42. PDF from Cynthia White (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 11 Dec 2015. Gives birth 29 Jan 1843 in Chateaugay, death 9 May 1890 in Malone.Nathan Melvin Whipple was engaged in the plumbing and heating business in Malone for many years, had charge of the village water system, and was reportedly "active in other municipal affairs." He was responsible for laying the water main from Chasm Falls to the Malone reservoir, which followed a nine-mile route roughly approximating the present macadan highway. At that time there was little, if any, power machinery to assist in the digging of the ditch for the pipes, which had to be laid at a depth of several feet to be safely below the frost level. With most of the work being done by hand, the number of men and the labor involved must have been tremendous.
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