William Francis Whitmore

1916 - 1996  (80 years)

• Name	William Francis Whitmore  [1]
  Birth	6 Jan 1916	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	6 Jan 1917	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Death	6 Jan 1996
  Person ID	I13390	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Charles Edward Whitmore,   b. 26 Sep 1887, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 7 Dec 1970, Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Manning Gardiner,   b. 1879, Massachusetts d. 1958, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	31 May 1913	Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F8571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Sherman "Bibba" Arnold,   b. 2 Dec 1915, San Francisco, San Francisco, California d. 18 Sep 1992, Los Altos, Santa Clara, California (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	1 Nov 1946  [3]
  Children	1. Thomas Sherman Whitmore,   b. 10 Feb 1953, Washington, D.C. (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F8401	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 May 2018

  
  

• Notes

  His papers, described as "Journal, reports, and printed articles, relating to the development of the Polaris missile and other American naval weapons systems", are at the Hoover Institution. In connection with those papers, the Online Archive of California describes him as "American physicist; chief scientist, Special Projects Office, United States Navy, 1957-1959; chief scientist (ocean systems), Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, 1969-1983." His page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, where it can be seen that his great-grand-advisor was Felix Klein, of the bottle; one of Klein's two advisors was Rudolf Lipschitz, and one of Lipschitz's grand-advisors was Joseph Fourier. ----- William Francis Whitmore and Elizabeth Sherman Arnold were 7th cousins, both being 6XG-grandchildren of Col. John Lane (1661-1715) and Susanna Whipple (1661-1713).

  
  

• Sources

  [S1859] "Elizabeth Arnold: Helped crack enemy code." Marin Independent Journal, 20 Sep 1992. [S1909] Secretary's Fourth Report, Harvard College, Class of 1907. Norwood, Massachusetts: Plimpton Press, 1917. [S1926] Who's Who in Commerce and Industry, Fourteenth Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1965. [S1909] Secretary's Fourth Report, Harvard College, Class of 1907. Norwood, Massachusetts: Plimpton Press, 1917., date and city only. [S5969] Marriage certificate of Charles Edward Whitmore (here called "Edward Charles Whitmore" and Elizabeth Manning Gardiner, held by their grandson Tom Whitmore.