Census: 1880 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin; age 46

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 44, No 46, p 8, Nov. 15, 1888.
At Milton, Wis., Nov. 3, 1888, of pneumonia, Mrs. Chloe Eliza, wife of Prof. Albert Whitford, aged 54 years, 6 months and 9 days. Sister Whitford had been ill but a short time; the Monday previous to her death she attended her classes, though she had been in comparatively feeble health for years.
The funeral exercises were held in the church at Milton, Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 7th about five hundred persons being in attendance, among whom were her daughter, Mrs. Anna Crandall of New Haven, Conn., and her two sons, Allie and Will, residing in Kansas, and two of her brothers. Many of the former students, graduates of the college, came and attended the funeral. Remarks were made by the pastor, who conducted the exercises, which will appear in the columns of this paper and take the place of a more extended obituary notice. The floral offerings were abundant and beautiful, among which were a broken wheel, a sickle, two anchors and a harp, which were furnished by the present students of the college, the former students, a brother from Milwaukee, and the ladies of the church of which she was a member. She will be greatly missed in the family, in the college, in the church and in the entire community. None could be more esteemed and beloved than was sister Whitford.!
She has gone from our sight, but her memory will be ever present and precious, and her life an inspiration to us all. E. M. D.

GRAD: 1853 Alfred University, Alfred, Allegany Co., New York
EMPL: 1854 Milton Academy, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
GRAD: 1857 Union College - BA, Schenectady, Schenectady Co., New York
EMPL: 1857 Milton Academy, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
GRAD: 1861 Union College - MA, Schenectady, Schenectady Co., New York
EMPL: 1865 De Ruyter Institute, De Ruyter, Madison Co., New York
EMPL: 1867 Milton College, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
EMPL: 1868 Alfred University, Alfred, Allegany Co., New York
EMPL: 1872 Milton College, Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin
Census: 1880 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin; age 48
Cause of death: Interstitial neelisitis, senility

Note: Admitted 1868, Alfred, New York.

"History of Rock County, Wisconsin", 1879, p 830.
ALFRED WHITFORD, Professor of mathematics, Milton College; born in Plainfield, Otsego Co., N.Y., May 28, 1832; son of Samuel and Sophia C.; they had four sons - Walter C., Hamilton D., Alfred and Herman D. Alfred attended Brookfield Academy and De Ruyter Institute, Madison Co., N.Y., and Alfred Academy, Allegany Co., N.Y.; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in the Class of '57; then returned to Milton, where he had taught asassistant to his brother, Prof. William WHITFORD, from 1854 to 1856. He also was Professor of Mathematics at Alfred Academy,from 1868 to 1872. Married, in 1857, Miss Chloe, daughter of George and Maria CURTIS, of East Toy, N.Y. Had five children -Anna S., Albert C., William H., Alfred E., and a baby.

"Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin", 1901, p 54-55.
ALBERT WHITFORD, M.A., Professor of Mathematics in Milton College, is one of the oldest and best-known educators ofsouthern Wisconsin. He has engaged in teaching for considerably more than a half century, giving the profession the devotion of his early years.
Prof. WHITFORD was born at Plainfield, near Leonardsville, N.Y., May 28, 1832, son of Samuel and Sophia (CLARKE) WHITFORD. The father, a farmer by occupation, was born in Brookfield, N.Y., in 1797, and was a son of David WHITFORD, a native of Stonington, Conn. of English ancestry, and a farmer. Samuel married Sophia, daughter of Joseph CLARKE, who was born in Rhode Island. The father of our subject died in Plainfield, N.Y., in 1848, aged fifty-one years; his wife surviving him forty years, passed away in Plainfield, N.Y., at the age of eighty-six. Both were devout members of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church. They had four sons: Rev. William Clarke, president of Milton College; Hamilton Joseph, deceased; Albert, our subject; and Herbert David, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The early life of our subject was spent on his father's farm. In 1847, at the age of fifteen years, he entered Brookfield Academy, but after a few terms was obliged by the death of his father to abandon temporarily his education. He taught district schools for several years, and in 1849 entered De RuyterInstitute as a student, teaching and attending school until 1852, when he entered Alfred Academy, by which he was graduated in the classical course in 1853.
Mr. WHITFORD came to Milton, Wis., in 1854, and became instructor in the Latin Language in Milton academy. Returning East two years later, he entered Union College at Schenectady, N.Y., in 1856; and by doing extra work, completed the classical course and was graduated, in 1857, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Four years later Union College conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts.
Returning to Milton in 1857, Prof. WHITFORD again became a teacher of Latin at the Academy, remaining in that position until 1863, when he was elected county superintendent of schools of Rock county, Wis. Two years later he was elected to the principalship of De Ruyter Institute, N.Y., filling the position two years. Again returning to Milton, in 1867, he taught for a year in the newly incorporated Milton college, then accepted the chair of mathematics in Alfred University, New York, where he taught four years. Since 1872 he has been professor of mathematics continuously, for two years of this time, from 1878 to 1880, also serving as acting president of the College, while President W. C. WHITFORD was State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wisconsin.
Prof. WHITFORD married, May 31, 1857, Miss Chloe E. CURTIS. Of their five children, one died in infancy. Anna Sophia married C. Eugene CRANDALL, a professor in the Chicago University. She has recently been engaged as teacher of German Language and Literature in Milton College. Albert Curtis, a railroad conductor, residing at Las Vegas, N.M., married Lottie HARVEY; all their children have died, Alfred, the youngest, recently. William Henry, a real-estate dealer at Independence, Kans., married Allie FOSTER, and has two daughters, Kathleen and Dorothy. Alfred Edward, a student in the Chicago University,has been elected the professor of general physics in Milton College. Mrs. WHITFORD died Nov. 4, 1888, and on Feb. 14, 1892, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Emily L. BURDICK, of West Edmeston, New York.
Prof. WHITFORD throughout his long and successful career as a teacher has been devoted to the cause of education in the highest sense. While insisting upon a high standard of scholarship among his students, his unassuming manners and kindness of heart have greatly endeared him to his classes. He is liberal in spirit, and has contributed generously in a financial, as well as educational way to the success of Milton College.

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 96, No 15, p 480, April 14, 1924
Obituary on file

Deacon of the Milton, Wisconsin Seventh-day Baptist Church1887-1923.

President of Milton College for two years, 1878-80

Rock Co. Death Cert. bd as 29 May 1832