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WHITNEY, Adeline Dutton Train, author, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 15 September, 1824. She is the daughter of Enoch Train, founder of a line of packet-ships between Boston and Liverpool, and a sister of George Francis Train. She was educated chiefly in Boston, and at the age of nineteen married Seth D. Whitney, of Milton, Massachusetts Mrs. Whitney has patented a set of "Alphabet Blocks," which are now in general use. Besides contributing to magazines for the young, she is the author of " Footsteps on the Seas," a poem (Boston, 1857); " Mother Goose for Grown Folks" (New York, 1860; revised eds., Boston, 1870 and 1882); "Boys at Chequasset" (Boston, 1862); "Faith Gartney's Girlhood" (1863); "The Gayworthys" (1865); " A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life " (1866) ; "Patience Strong's Outings" (1868); " Hitherto" (1869) ; "We Girls" (1870) ; "Real Folks" (187l) : "Pansies," poems (1872) : " The Other Girls " (1873) ; "Sights and Insights " (1876); "Just How : a Key to the Cook-Books" (1878) : "Odd or Even" (1880) ; " Bonny-borough " (1885) ; "Homespun Yarns" and "Holy-Tides" (1886) ; and " Daffodils" and "Bird-Talk'' (1887). The last three are volumes of verse.
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