The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-10-16
death ENDS GREAT
BUSINESS CAREER
Henry White Passes
Away After Long
Struggle
CAME TO EAGLE IN 1883
Directing Genius of Great
Wholesale Grocery and
Banking Business
CAME TO EAGLE in 1883

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afternoon, after a lingering
illness extending over period
of two months or more The funeral
services We're conducted at the family
residence Tuesday afternoon and We're
attended by great throng which
came to pay the last measure of re-
spect to the master business man of
| the Occur d'Alene district Business
, throughout the city was suspended
during the funeral hour in response
to a proclamation issued by Mayor
Hugh Toole. The service at the home
consisted of prayer, reading the
Scripture and brief sermon by Rev.
d, M Helmick. This was preceded
and followed, respectively, by the
songs Lead Kindly Light" and
Abide With Me-" by Mrs. Therrett
Towles and Mrs. IT, e. Hanley AT
the conclusion of the service friends
of the deceased were permitted to
view the remains the casket being
concealed in a bank of flowers Yes
terday morning the body was taken
! to Spokane for burial, accompanied
/ by the following pail bearers: George
r. Trask James f. Mccarthy, DR.. F.
| l.. Quigley, George Parrish, M. ].
Flohr and C, M. Grubbs Honorary
PAN bearers were August Paulsen, w.
! j. C. Wakefield, Charles Hussey, C. e.
| Bender w d. Greenough and T. F.
Spencer, all of Spokane; John P.
Gray, of Occur d'Alene e. H. Moffitt
and C. w. Newton, of Wallace.
A Real Pioneer.
Harry White was born in Brock
Vile, ontario, on February 6, 1859,
and would therefore have been 61
years old on his next birthday. He
received a common school education
in his native town and then took a
commercial course of training in a
school at Belleville, Ontario. Soon
thereafter he came to the United
States and secured his first job In the
service of the express company at
Fargo, ~ d. After a short stay in
Fargo he went to San Francisco, and
was in that city in 1888 when the dis
covery of gold on Prichard creek
started a stampede to northern Idaho
that is memorable in the history of
mining in the west, From the four
points of the compass the gold hunt
ers hurried to the new Eldorado, and
the fan and winter of 1883 saw thou
sands of men at Eagle Prichard
creek Eagle creek and Trail creek,
with every side gulch, was located. 1t
was at this time that fate turned the
course of Harry White to the Occur
IdAlenes, and through his business sa
gacity he became the dominant fig
ure in the business life of the district
His decision to go to the Occur
d'Alenes was reached by the toss OF
coin and he arrived at Eagle in the
late fan of 1888. In the spring of 1884
he found employemnt in the store of
Walter l.. Blossom and James f.
Wardner who became famous through
making the sale of the Bunker Hill &
Sullivan mine to S. G. Reed, of Port
land, and for whom the town of
was conducted under the firm name
of w. L. Blossom & Co Mr.. White soon
bought out the business and associ-
ated with Charles E. Bender the firm
of White & Bender was born.
Open Store in Wallace.
The development Of the large lead
IdanOcits on the South Fork soon in
dicated that the most populous part
of the Coeur d'Aene district would be
in that section, and with characteris-
: tic judgment Harry White selected
J Wallace as the future metropolis and
! commercial center of this rich mining
field In 1889 White & Bender open
: ed a store in this city, occupying
frame building on the lot now occu-
pied by George Stewards drug store,
and from that year dates the resi-
: dence of Harry White in this city
The following year, in July, fire de-
stroyed the White & Bender store, to-
gether with every other business
house in wallace. In the presence of
this disaster the real spirit of Wallace
: was first shown Before the ashes
= were cold the debris was being re-
! moved and foundations were being
p laid for a greater wallace, and 1t was
: then that Harry White showed his
firm faith in the city by securing the
valuable corner Of Bank and Sixth
p streets and erecting the building now