Whittaker, Thomas, died after a long illness, on Christmas Day, December 25, 1914, at his home, No. 50 West 47th Street, New York City. He was born in Ireland, coming to this country at about the age of sixteen and associating himself with Dr. Muhlenburg, a well known educator and the founder of St. Luke's Hospital.

Mr. Whittaker was in the Church Book Publishing business for more than fifty years; first with the Evangelical Knowledge Society and since 1874 for himself. His extablishment in the Bible House at the corner of Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue was always a centre of Episcopal Church activities. He was the publisher of Whittaker's Churchman's Almanac, The Parish Visitor and many Theological Works of Clergymen prominent in the American and English Episcopal Churches. He was a member of the Board of the American Bible Society and Treasurer of the Church Congress. He was secretary of the Chelter for Respectable Girls, a member of the Evangelical Knowledge Society, the Church Club of New York, the New York Historical Society, the American Numismatical and Archaeological Society.

The funeral services were held at St. Bartholomew;s Church, 44th Street and Madison Avenue, on Monday morning, December 28th, at ten o'clock. He is survived by his wife, Ella H. Whittaker, and by a son, Thomas Shirley Whittaker.

Source: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. XLVII, 1916

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