Ancestry of
Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Eli Whitney 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Fay   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Dec 1765 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jan 1825 
  • Death Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • Inventor of the cotton gin

• Marriages for Eli Whitney

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  • Spouse:
  • Henrietta Edwards
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1817

• Sources for Eli Whitney

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/13/2013).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough Births, Vol. 1, Page 106, Birth record for Eli Whitney.
  • ³ Johnson, George Henry, One Branch of the Fay Family Tree: An Account of the Ancestors and Descendants of William and Elizabeth Fay, Columbus, Ohio: The Champlin Press (1913), 28-29.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Eli Whitney", (accessed 09/22/2011).