John Staples White
(1838- )
Maine
George Bancroft Griffith (ed.), The Poets of Maine
587 (Portland, Maine, Elwell, Pickard & Co., 1888):
John S. White is a son of the late Daniel White, of Portland,
a gentleman well known and highly esteemed as one of the prominent
business men of that city. He attended Waterville College—now
Colby—and Law School at Harvard. Was admitted to Cumberland Bar
July 17, 1860, and practiced in Portland and Chicago; but for
some years past has been engaged in mercantile pursuits in his
native city.
Writings
John Staples White, Humanics: Comments, Aphorisms and Essays:
Touches of Shadow and Light to Bring out the Likeness of Man and
Substance of Things (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1893)
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