File:Obituary for William H. Whiting in the Times Union of Brooklyn, New York on 29 August 1934.jpg

Brooklyn Native Was First Mayor of Bound Brook, N.J., and Its Oldest Commuter. William H. Whiting, native of Brooklyn and one of the oldest real estate dealers in New York, died yesterday in his summer home in Harwichport, Massachusetts. He resided in Bound Brook, New Jersey, for the past 60 years. Mr. Whiting would have celebrated his 87th birthday next Monday. Senior partner of William H. Whiting & Co., 270 Broadway, Manhattan, he was born in this borough September 3, 1846, the son of Hugh Joseph and Josephine Shannon Whiting. Mr. Whiting attended P.S. 1 and Polytechnic Institute. He entered the office of Manly A. Ruland & Co., 5 Beekman street, Manhattan, and was made a partner in the firm in 1868. In 1910, Mr. Whiting resigned from Ruland and Whiting to found his own realty firm, with his two sons. Irving S. and Ralph D. Whiting, as partners. The oldest daily commuter to New York from Bound Brook, Mr. Whiting liked to tell of the Civil War draft riots, when he assisted a colored porter into a packing case in which the man was transported to his home in Harlem. Mr. Whiting supervised construction of the Temple Court Building, one of the earliest examples of fireproof construction in the city. When the World Building, then on Beekman street, caught fire, flying sparks ignited the awnings of the Temple Court Building. Although Mr. Whiting told firemen the structure would not burn, they insisted on pouring streams of water on the building. Ha was first Mayor of Bound Brook, and organizer of the Bound Brook Trust Co. in 1916. Last January, Mr. Whiting resigned as president to become chairman of the board of directors. He was a member of the Middlebrook Country Club, the Harwich Golf Club and the Sons of the American Revolution. On October 13, 186S, Mr. Whiting married Esther A. Slaght, of Brooklyn, who died some years ago. A daughter, Mrs. Josephine W. Doty, survives, in addition to the two sons. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3 P.M. in Mr. Whiting's Bound Brook home, 101 Union avenue. Burial will be in Bound Brook Cemetery.

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