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            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) |