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Samuel Whiting). She was a daughter of
Gen. John Whiting, who did good service in
the Revolution, and died at Washington in
1810; and Gen. Henry Whiting, quite distin-
guished also for his literary attainments, was a
brother of hers. She was born at Lancaster,
Mass., in i8oo, and was married in I825 , at
Northampton, to Mr. N. M. Hentz, a French
gentleman of education and talents, who was
at that time, in connection with George Ban-
croft the historian, conducting a seminary at
Northampton. Soon after marriage they moved
to North Carolina, when Mr: Hentz became a
professor in the college at Chapel Hill. They
afterwards lived at Covington, Ky., then at Cincinnati,
and then at Florence, Ala., where
they established a flourishing seminary. In
I843 they removed their school to Tuscaloosa,
Fla., and afterwards they resided at Columbus:
Ga. Mrs. Hentz died at the residence of
her son, Dr. Charles A. Hentz, at Mariana,
Fla., in 1856 ; and within a year afterwards
her accomplished husband died at the same
place.