Clackamas-Marion County OR Archives Obituaries.....Whipple, Gardner April 1922
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Canby Herald and Clackamas County News April 20,1922
Civil War veteran Dies
Gardner Whipple,Sr.,a prominent citizen of Clackamas county,passed away at his 
home  near Canby on Easter Sunday.Mr Whipple had been failing slightly for 
several months,but had always enjoyed vivisting with friends and members of 
his family till the very moment death called him.
mr Whipple,one of 13 children,was born in the northern part of 
Pennsylvania,Ocotber 14,1838,but the greatest part of his boyhood was spent 
near Rochester,N.Y. In 1858,he came to California by way of the isthmus and 
engaged in thelumber business in San Fransisco.in 1862 he enlisted in the 
Civil War.In 1875,Mr Whipple came to oregon and settled ona  farm five miles 
north of oregon City.He was united in marriage to Eliza Ellen Starkweather in 
1890,and since that time has resided on a farm near Canby.He is survived by 
his widow and four children,Mrs Henry Kuehl,Olive A.,Gardner M., and Eva Adney 
Whipple.he is also survived by one brother,Edwin Whipple,of berkely,California

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