Person:George White (110)

George^S4, who attended the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph for two years from the fall of 1878, went to Manitoba, remarking that he wouldn’t be home for five years. From Manitoba, he went farther west, finally getting into business at Wallis, Idaho, and at present being on a ranch at Hollister, Idaho. He never visited the old home afterward, though after Mother, Myrtle, Bert and I were living (in 1907) at the southwest corner of Summit Ave and Eighth Street, Cincinnati, he spent a few hours with us one evening while passing through the city. It seemed to me very strange that after being away twenty-seven years he couldn’t spend longer with us. But we couldn’t persuade him to stay longer. George was a clever, capable and ambitious man, but had not made good in his own eyes and had never married. It was a keen disappointment to Mother that he did not stay longer with us but a great satisfaction that she even had a few hours’ visit with him. That night when Bert and I went with him to the depot, he told us that he had the unusual faculty of retaining his sense of direction even when in the dark in a strange, (sic) city and no matter what turning the carriage he was in might go through.

In the family photo taken in about 1890 (see the family page for his parents) his mother is said to have been holding George's photo, including him in the family despite his absence.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 G. Clare White. White Family Tree (G Clare White). (March 1979)
   Page A-2.

   George Patchett (White) born 9-28-1859, died 4-9-1928

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 copy by E.F. White, Jr. E.F. White, Jr. Copy of Rhoda Johnston's Records. (July 30, 1938)
   Page 2.

   George Patchett (White) -- b. Sept. 28, 1859, d. 1927 in Idaho -- his home.;
   no marriage

3. ↑ Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Idaho Death Index, 1911-1951.

   NAME OF DECEASED: WHITE, GEORGE P.; YEAR: 1928; CERTIFICATE NUMBER: 061259; COUNTY OF DEATH: 06; CITY: BLACKFOOT; DATE OF DEATH: 04/09/1928

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 White, E. Frank. White Family (Memoir) transcription. (1 Sep 1926).