He married Katherine Kimball in 1922. Their oldest son,
Wheelock "Whee" Whitney Jr. was a
Minneapolis philanthropist, who was the 1964 Republican nominee for
U.S. Senate from Minnesota, losing to
Eugene McCarthy, and he was the Republican nominee for
governor of Minnesota in 1982. Their second son was John Kimball "Kim" Whitney, a Minnesota philanthropist, and a long-time board member of the
Boy Scouts of America, who died on November 8, 2010, aged 83. Grandsons include
Wheelock Whitney III, an
art historian and philanthropist;
Benson Whitney, the former
United States Ambassador to Norway; and
Connecticut Green Party politician
Charles Pillsbury of
Doonesbury fame.
Ancestry He was the son of Albert Gideon Whitney (1859–1922) and Alice Wheelock (maiden; 1868–1954). By way of his mother, he was the 7th great-grandchild of
Ralph Wheelock (1600–1683). ==References==