Family
Whitmore married Marion Gertrude Mason (who graduated from Radcliffe College with a degree in chemistry in 1912) in 1914. The Whitmores had four children: Frank Jr., Mason, Harry, and Marion, Jr ("Marionette"). Frank Whitmore died in 1947 at the age of 59 as the result of a heart ailment (likely related to his high blood pressure). Penn State's Whitmore Laboratory is named after Whitmore.
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