James Terry White
James Terry White (July 3, 1845 in Newburyport, M*achusetts – April 3, 1920 in Manhattan, New York) was an American publisher and poet. Given his wide range of interests and involvement in various businesses and cultural activities, he was reputed to be a Renaissance man. In 1862, he joined the San Francisco publishing firm H.H. Bancroft & Co. In 1869, White founded a publishing company bearing his name, James T. White Co. in San Francisco; and in 1886, with his son George Derby White, moved its headquarters to New York City. The firm published the first edition of The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography in 1891. At the death of his son in 1939, thirty-one volumes had been published, each containing about 1,000 biographies and 450 pages.
Contents
- 1 Family successor of corporate positions
- 2 Other affiliations
- 3 Selected publications
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Family successor of corporate positions
White's uncle, Andrew Judson White, MD (1824–1898), had entered the wholesale drug business in New York and London — mainly, he, along with two other family members, obtained the rights to Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills.
In 1891, he became a large shareholder in Yost Typewriting Company, of which, later, he became president and director. When Union acquired Yost, he became a director of the Union Typewriting Co. When Andrew J. White died in 1898, his son, Raymond Sanford White (a Yale graduate) *umed those roles. When Raymond White died in 1903, James Terry White (his cousin), *umed the role as president of the Yost Typewriting Company, president and director of the Onondaga Mining Company, president and director of Sulphrose Company, president and director of West Coast Rubber Company. He also became a stockholder in several banks and other business corporations of New York City.
Other affiliations
He had served as vice president of the National Press Bureau. White was an organizer and vice president of the Hudnut Pharmacy in New York City. He founded the Character Development League in New York City and, in 1885, invented White’s Physiological Manikin, a life-size illustration of human anatomical structure, surgical techniques, and even prenatal development despite the gender being male.
Selected publications
As author
- Flowers from Arcadia (1884) OCLC:14757573
- A Bouquet of California Flowers (1883) OCLC:21650990
- Captive Memories (1897) OCLC:1981536
- Christmas Greeting (1883) OCLC:58879585
- A Garden of Remembrance (1917) OCLC:16838347, 647376327
As publisher
- The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 63 volumes, published from 1892 to 1984 OCLC:1759175
References
General references
- Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement; British and American Authors, two volumes, by John Foster Kirk, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia (1891) OCLC:555027158
- The American Literary Yearbook — A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of Living North American Authors; Volume 1, edited by Hamilton Paul Traub, Paul Traub, Henning, Minnesota (1919) OCLC:10093230
- Childhood in Poetry, A Catalogue, With Biographical and Critical Annotations of the Books of English and American poets Comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University, first edition, by John Mackay Shaw Gale Research, Detroit (1967) OCLC:576009
- A Dictionary of American Authors, fifth edition, revised and enlarged, by Oscar Fay Adams, Houghton Mifflin Co., New York (1904) OCLC:1188
- A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950, compiled by William Stewart Wallace, Ryerson Press, Toronto (1951) OCLC:285718, 301528791
- The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 19, James T. White & Co., New York (1926)
- Who Was Who in America, A Component Volume of Who's Who in American History, Volume 1, 1897-1942, A.N. Marquis Co., Chicago (1943) OCLC:1432949
Inline citations
External links
- Works by or about James Terry White at Internet Archive
- Macbeth Gallery Records, 1838-1968, bulk, 1892-1953, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Ins*ution