Family
White married Sallie Lindsay in 1893. They had two children, William Lindsay, born in 1900, and Mary Katherine, born in 1904. Mary died in a 1921 horse-riding accident, leading her father to write a famous eulogy, "Mary White," on August 17, 1921.
White visited six of the seven continents at least once in his long life. Due to his fame and success, he received 10 honorary degrees from universities, including one from Harvard.
White taught his son Bill the importance of journalism and after his death Bill took charge of the Gazette and continued its local success. Bill's wife Kathrine ran it after Bill died. Their daughter Barbara and her husband David Walker took it over much as Bill had earlier, and today the paper is family-run still, at present being headed by WAW's great-grandson, Christopher White Walker.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“If a family lives in harmony, all its affairs will prosper.”
—Chinese proverb.
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—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“There are one or two rules,
Half-a-dozen, maybe,
That all family fools,
Of whatever degree,
Must observe if they love their profession.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)