D. C. WHITTINGHILL was born in Hancock County, Ky., March 18, 1854, a son of David and Margaret (Phillips) Whittinghill, natives of Ohio County, Ky., and of German and Irish descent. David Whittinghill was married in his native county, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits, in connection with the ministry, until 1864, when he removed to Hopkins County and bought a farm four miles west of Madisonville, upon which he still resides. He has been a regularly ordained minister of the Missionary Baptist Church for the past twenty-five or thirty years. Mrs. Margaret Whittinghill departed this life April 7, 1881, in her fifty-ninth year. She was from her girlhood a devoted member of the Missionary Baptist Church. D. C. Whittinghill (our subject) received a good common school and academic education in his youth, and also attended the Bethel College of Russellville, Ky., for a time. He was employed on his father's farm until he attained his majority. He then taught a five-months' term of school, after which he engaged in farming on his own account for three years. He was then engaged in the lumber business at Madisonville for two years, and in the grain trade for one year at the same place. In May, 1883, he came to Providence, where he has since been employed as agent for the Louisville & Nashville Railway, and in the grain trade, at which he is doing a thriving business. Mr. Whittinghill is yet unmarried. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and in politics a Democrat.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Pages 1051-1052.