Elijah Whipple
Elijah Whipple was born in Vermont in the year 1781. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Comstock of Hamilton county, about 1807. They had eleven children Seneca, James, Sarah, Joab, Rebecca, Ruth, Elizabeth, Jerry, Daniel, Ennis, and Samuel. But four of this number are still living - Seneca, Elizabeth, Daniel, and Samuel. Daniel, the ninth child, was born in Butler county, December 22, 1821; moved to Hamilton county about the year 1845, and has been a resident of the latter county ever since, with the exception of two years spent in California. On the nineteenth of October, 1848, he married Miss Susan Pottinger, daughter of John Pottinger, who was born in this county in May, 1823. There were five children belonging to this family - Sarah, Austin, Ella, John, and Joab Austin only is not living. Mr.. and Mrs. Whipple are both active members of the United Brethren church in their vicinity. The older Mr. Whipple died in 1830. His wife died seven years alter that date.
From History of Hamilton County, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881