biography of Daniel Powers WHITING (1808-1882)

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Listed as "artist"

Work: NYHS.

Comments: Artist of F. Swinton's lithograph, The Heights of Monterey from the Saltillo Road Looking Towards the City, September 21, 1846." Whiting was an infantry captain who graduated from West Point in 1832 and was brevetted major for gallantry at the Battle of Cerro Gordo (Mexico) in 1847. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1863.

Sources: G&W; American Processional, 242; Heitman, Historical Register of the U.S. Army, 691; Jackson, Gold Rush Album, 124-25; Peters, America on Stone [as D.W. Whiting]."