CHARLES ATWOOD WHITE was the second of the seven sons of Henry White (B.A Yale 1821) and Martha (Sher- man) White, and was born in New Haven, November 11,
1833 As were his father and brothers, he also was prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar School As student and graduate, his sound views of life, his genial spirit, and rare gifts of humor and wit, won for him many friends in various classes, whose warm regard continued through life He rowed on the crew in the first Harvard-Yale boat race at Lake Winnipiseogee, August 3, 1852 This event was commemorated as the "First Intercollegiate Regatta" by a dinner given at the University Club of New York December 10, 1902, at which Mr. White was one of the
four survivors of the nine men who rowed in the Yale boat
After graduation he was for some years in the wholesale iron business with T B. Coddington & C o , in New York, later in a shipping business with his uncle, Benjamin P Sherman, and in other business enterprises In 1869 he
returned to New Haven and was at once engaged in helping his father in the settling of some complicated estates, also in planning and executing the opening of a street (now Center Street) from Orange Street to Church Street through the old inherited garden in the heart of the City
Meanwhile he studied law and was admitted October 19, 1877, to the New Haven County Bar He soon became a member of the firm of White Brothers, who for three generations of the name have practiced law on the same
ancestral ground where they are now
In politics he was an earnest and loyal Republican. He
wt^ a member of the Common Council of New Haven in 1876, and an auditor for the stockholders of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company for about
fifteen \ear
From his father, the late Henry White, a man endeared
to the cultured people of New Haven for his pure soul, his winlom and his erudition, he received his strong taste for historical and genealogical research, as well as the use of his father's fine genealogical library, which he continu- alh supplemented, until it became a joy to his friends as well as to himself He was especially interested in English research and contributed to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register the following papers • In Vol
51, Julv 1897, "Ancestry of Rev John Sherman and Capt John Sherman," establishing the English Ancestry of his great-grandfather, Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declara- tion of Independence, in Vol 53, April 1899, "The first wife of Go\ Wylhs of Connecticut and her family", in Yol 54 m January and April 1900 two articles on the "Wills of the Shermans of Yaxley, England", and in Vol 55 Jan 1901, "The Children of Robert White of Messing, England " These papers, the results of much research and careful study, were published not over his own name, but simply as "by a descendant"
Mr White had been a member of the Center Church since 1874, was one of the committee who chose Dr New- man Sm\th as its pastor, and was chairman of the Trustees of the Center Church "Old Ladies Home ". Mr. White married in New York City, October 15, 1861, Frances Spencer, daughter of Major-General Amos B. Eaton, U. S A. (West Point 1821), and Elizabeth (Selden) Eaton, and sister of Daniel C. Eaton ( B A Yale 1857), late Professor of Botany in Yale University.
Their only son and one daughter are deceased. Mrs. White and four daughters survive him, namely. Frances E., whomarried Robert G Gamble, M D.; Mabel W , wife of Henry L. Stimson (B.A.Yale 1888) ; Elizabeth S , wife of John Rogers, M.D (BA Yale 1887), and Susan S, wife of W. H. L. Edwards of New York.
Although M r. White's failing eyesight had restricted his activity somewhat for two years, he was engaged in the care and settlement of various estates until within a few months before his death. He died peacefully at his home in New Haven June 18, 1909,at the age of 75 years. He had been seriously ill only ten days He was buried near his only son in the old Grove Street Cemetery
Five of his brothers were graduated from Yale College in 1851, 1859, i860, 1864, and 1866, respectively.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1909-10.pdf
1833 As were his father and brothers, he also was prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar School As student and graduate, his sound views of life, his genial spirit, and rare gifts of humor and wit, won for him many friends in various classes, whose warm regard continued through life He rowed on the crew in the first Harvard-Yale boat race at Lake Winnipiseogee, August 3, 1852 This event was commemorated as the "First Intercollegiate Regatta" by a dinner given at the University Club of New York December 10, 1902, at which Mr. White was one of the
four survivors of the nine men who rowed in the Yale boat
After graduation he was for some years in the wholesale iron business with T B. Coddington & C o , in New York, later in a shipping business with his uncle, Benjamin P Sherman, and in other business enterprises In 1869 he
returned to New Haven and was at once engaged in helping his father in the settling of some complicated estates, also in planning and executing the opening of a street (now Center Street) from Orange Street to Church Street through the old inherited garden in the heart of the City
Meanwhile he studied law and was admitted October 19, 1877, to the New Haven County Bar He soon became a member of the firm of White Brothers, who for three generations of the name have practiced law on the same
ancestral ground where they are now
In politics he was an earnest and loyal Republican. He
wt^ a member of the Common Council of New Haven in 1876, and an auditor for the stockholders of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company for about
fifteen \ear
From his father, the late Henry White, a man endeared
to the cultured people of New Haven for his pure soul, his winlom and his erudition, he received his strong taste for historical and genealogical research, as well as the use of his father's fine genealogical library, which he continu- alh supplemented, until it became a joy to his friends as well as to himself He was especially interested in English research and contributed to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register the following papers • In Vol
51, Julv 1897, "Ancestry of Rev John Sherman and Capt John Sherman," establishing the English Ancestry of his great-grandfather, Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declara- tion of Independence, in Vol 53, April 1899, "The first wife of Go\ Wylhs of Connecticut and her family", in Yol 54 m January and April 1900 two articles on the "Wills of the Shermans of Yaxley, England", and in Vol 55 Jan 1901, "The Children of Robert White of Messing, England " These papers, the results of much research and careful study, were published not over his own name, but simply as "by a descendant"
Mr White had been a member of the Center Church since 1874, was one of the committee who chose Dr New- man Sm\th as its pastor, and was chairman of the Trustees of the Center Church "Old Ladies Home ". Mr. White married in New York City, October 15, 1861, Frances Spencer, daughter of Major-General Amos B. Eaton, U. S A. (West Point 1821), and Elizabeth (Selden) Eaton, and sister of Daniel C. Eaton ( B A Yale 1857), late Professor of Botany in Yale University.
Their only son and one daughter are deceased. Mrs. White and four daughters survive him, namely. Frances E., whomarried Robert G Gamble, M D.; Mabel W , wife of Henry L. Stimson (B.A.Yale 1888) ; Elizabeth S , wife of John Rogers, M.D (BA Yale 1887), and Susan S, wife of W. H. L. Edwards of New York.
Although M r. White's failing eyesight had restricted his activity somewhat for two years, he was engaged in the care and settlement of various estates until within a few months before his death. He died peacefully at his home in New Haven June 18, 1909,at the age of 75 years. He had been seriously ill only ten days He was buried near his only son in the old Grove Street Cemetery
Five of his brothers were graduated from Yale College in 1851, 1859, i860, 1864, and 1866, respectively.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1909-10.pdf
CHARLES ATWOOD WHITE was the second of the seven sons of Henry White (B.A Yale 1821) and Martha (Sher- man) White, and was born in New Haven, November 11,
1833 As were his father and brothers, he also was prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar School As student and graduate, his sound views of life, his genial spirit, and rare gifts of humor and wit, won for him many friends in various classes, whose warm regard continued through life He rowed on the crew in the first Harvard-Yale boat race at Lake Winnipiseogee, August 3, 1852 This event was commemorated as the "First Intercollegiate Regatta" by a dinner given at the University Club of New York December 10, 1902, at which Mr. White was one of the
four survivors of the nine men who rowed in the Yale boat
After graduation he was for some years in the wholesale iron business with T B. Coddington & C o , in New York, later in a shipping business with his uncle, Benjamin P Sherman, and in other business enterprises In 1869 he
returned to New Haven and was at once engaged in helping his father in the settling of some complicated estates, also in planning and executing the opening of a street (now Center Street) from Orange Street to Church Street through the old inherited garden in the heart of the City
Meanwhile he studied law and was admitted October 19, 1877, to the New Haven County Bar He soon became a member of the firm of White Brothers, who for three generations of the name have practiced law on the same
ancestral ground where they are now
In politics he was an earnest and loyal Republican. He
wt^ a member of the Common Council of New Haven in 1876, and an auditor for the stockholders of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company for about
fifteen \ear
From his father, the late Henry White, a man endeared
to the cultured people of New Haven for his pure soul, his winlom and his erudition, he received his strong taste for historical and genealogical research, as well as the use of his father's fine genealogical library, which he continu- alh supplemented, until it became a joy to his friends as well as to himself He was especially interested in English research and contributed to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register the following papers • In Vol
51, Julv 1897, "Ancestry of Rev John Sherman and Capt John Sherman," establishing the English Ancestry of his great-grandfather, Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declara- tion of Independence, in Vol 53, April 1899, "The first wife of Go\ Wylhs of Connecticut and her family", in Yol 54 m January and April 1900 two articles on the "Wills of the Shermans of Yaxley, England", and in Vol 55 Jan 1901, "The Children of Robert White of Messing, England " These papers, the results of much research and careful study, were published not over his own name, but simply as "by a descendant"
Mr White had been a member of the Center Church since 1874, was one of the committee who chose Dr New- man Sm\th as its pastor, and was chairman of the Trustees of the Center Church "Old Ladies Home ". Mr. White married in New York City, October 15, 1861, Frances Spencer, daughter of Major-General Amos B. Eaton, U. S A. (West Point 1821), and Elizabeth (Selden) Eaton, and sister of Daniel C. Eaton ( B A Yale 1857), late Professor of Botany in Yale University.
Their only son and one daughter are deceased. Mrs. White and four daughters survive him, namely. Frances E., whomarried Robert G Gamble, M D.; Mabel W , wife of Henry L. Stimson (B.A.Yale 1888) ; Elizabeth S , wife of John Rogers, M.D (BA Yale 1887), and Susan S, wife of W. H. L. Edwards of New York.
Although M r. White's failing eyesight had restricted his activity somewhat for two years, he was engaged in the care and settlement of various estates until within a few months before his death. He died peacefully at his home in New Haven June 18, 1909,at the age of 75 years. He had been seriously ill only ten days He was buried near his only son in the old Grove Street Cemetery
Five of his brothers were graduated from Yale College in 1851, 1859, i860, 1864, and 1866, respectively.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1909-10.pdf
1833 As were his father and brothers, he also was prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar School As student and graduate, his sound views of life, his genial spirit, and rare gifts of humor and wit, won for him many friends in various classes, whose warm regard continued through life He rowed on the crew in the first Harvard-Yale boat race at Lake Winnipiseogee, August 3, 1852 This event was commemorated as the "First Intercollegiate Regatta" by a dinner given at the University Club of New York December 10, 1902, at which Mr. White was one of the
four survivors of the nine men who rowed in the Yale boat
After graduation he was for some years in the wholesale iron business with T B. Coddington & C o , in New York, later in a shipping business with his uncle, Benjamin P Sherman, and in other business enterprises In 1869 he
returned to New Haven and was at once engaged in helping his father in the settling of some complicated estates, also in planning and executing the opening of a street (now Center Street) from Orange Street to Church Street through the old inherited garden in the heart of the City
Meanwhile he studied law and was admitted October 19, 1877, to the New Haven County Bar He soon became a member of the firm of White Brothers, who for three generations of the name have practiced law on the same
ancestral ground where they are now
In politics he was an earnest and loyal Republican. He
wt^ a member of the Common Council of New Haven in 1876, and an auditor for the stockholders of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company for about
fifteen \ear
From his father, the late Henry White, a man endeared
to the cultured people of New Haven for his pure soul, his winlom and his erudition, he received his strong taste for historical and genealogical research, as well as the use of his father's fine genealogical library, which he continu- alh supplemented, until it became a joy to his friends as well as to himself He was especially interested in English research and contributed to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register the following papers • In Vol
51, Julv 1897, "Ancestry of Rev John Sherman and Capt John Sherman," establishing the English Ancestry of his great-grandfather, Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declara- tion of Independence, in Vol 53, April 1899, "The first wife of Go\ Wylhs of Connecticut and her family", in Yol 54 m January and April 1900 two articles on the "Wills of the Shermans of Yaxley, England", and in Vol 55 Jan 1901, "The Children of Robert White of Messing, England " These papers, the results of much research and careful study, were published not over his own name, but simply as "by a descendant"
Mr White had been a member of the Center Church since 1874, was one of the committee who chose Dr New- man Sm\th as its pastor, and was chairman of the Trustees of the Center Church "Old Ladies Home ". Mr. White married in New York City, October 15, 1861, Frances Spencer, daughter of Major-General Amos B. Eaton, U. S A. (West Point 1821), and Elizabeth (Selden) Eaton, and sister of Daniel C. Eaton ( B A Yale 1857), late Professor of Botany in Yale University.
Their only son and one daughter are deceased. Mrs. White and four daughters survive him, namely. Frances E., whomarried Robert G Gamble, M D.; Mabel W , wife of Henry L. Stimson (B.A.Yale 1888) ; Elizabeth S , wife of John Rogers, M.D (BA Yale 1887), and Susan S, wife of W. H. L. Edwards of New York.
Although M r. White's failing eyesight had restricted his activity somewhat for two years, he was engaged in the care and settlement of various estates until within a few months before his death. He died peacefully at his home in New Haven June 18, 1909,at the age of 75 years. He had been seriously ill only ten days He was buried near his only son in the old Grove Street Cemetery
Five of his brothers were graduated from Yale College in 1851, 1859, i860, 1864, and 1866, respectively.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1909-10.pdf
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