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Hassler Whitney's father was Edward Baldwin Whitney, a judge, and his mother was A Josepha Newcomb.Edward's father was William Dwight Whitney who was a linguist and one of the foremost Sanskrit scholars of his time, noted especially for his classic work, Sanskrit Grammar(1879). Josepha's father was Simon Newcomb who has a biography in this archive.
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Certainly Hassler had two very famous grandfathers.
Whitney attended Yale University where he received his first degree in 1928, then continued to undertake mathematical research at Harvard University from where his doctorate was awarded in 1932.
His doctorate was awarded for a dissertation The Coloring of Graphs written under Birkhof