Travis Harvard Whitney
Travis Harvard Whitney was the head of the New York Public Service Commission.Biography
He was born on June 22, 1875 in Gentryville, Indiana, to Thomas J. and Mary J. Whitney. He attended Harvard Law School and graduated in 1903. He became the assistant secretary at the Citizens Union. In 1903 he married Rosalie Loew; he and his wife formed a law firm, Loew & Whitney.
He was secretary of the New York Public Service Commission when it was begun in 1907. In 1916 he was promoted to head the commission by governor Charles Seymour Whitman to replace the outgoing John Sergeant Cram.
He died on January 8, 1934 of pneumonia at Post-Graduate Hospital in New York City. He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery.
