In September 1953, my aunt, Gladys Whalen Stoddard (1893-1973), wrote about her paternal grandfather, Thomas Whalen. Gladys was my father’s sister and the eldest child of Thomas’s only son, Charles C. Whalen and his wife Leta Mary Clarke Whalen. A photocopy of Gladys’s four-page document is included at the end of the transcription as are photos of Gladys, Thomas, and others mentioned in the document.
(circa 1825-1891)
As a rule, transcriptions of historical documents remain strictly faithful to the original and I believe other family members may have already transcribed and privately published this material.
The following transcription, however, is not strictly faithful to Gladys’s original. Firstly, the “original” in my possession is actually a photocopy in which some of right side text is missing. I have compensated for the missing text as I think it probably would have read. Additionally, I believe the frequency of typographical and punctuation errors make the “original” very difficult to read. At this link is a heavily edited version of Aunt Gladys’s original document. Footnotes are included to help today’s readers better identify the people she wrote about.
Loretta Whalen Stamps, August 2021