HERBERT E. WHITE

Sacramento County

Biographies

HERBERT E. WHITE

HERBERT E. WHITE.--A widely-known attorney who is esteemed for both his knowledge of the law, and particularly his familiarity with legal procedure in the settlement of estates, and his unquestioned and unquestionable integrity in a busy practice, is Herbert E. White, a native of Sacramento, in intimate touch with Sacramento traditions and conditions. He was born on January 18, 1888, the son of Clinton L. and Olive (McKinney) White, the latter a noble woman who passed to her eternal reward in 1914. Mr. Clinton L. White, whose life-story is narrated with some detail elsewhere in this historical work, is still living in Sacramento.

Herbert E. White was not satisfied when he had finished the grammar-school courses available in the schools of his neighborhood, but he pushed on through the Sacramento high school, and in 1999 was graduated from Stanford University, when he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Two years later, he was among the graduates of the law department of the same university, and then he was given the J. D. degree. He was a good student, and honest, hard work at study brought quite as many rewards as his equally conscientious and industrious application in legal practice later. In 1914, when only twenty-six years of age, Mr. White served a short period as superior judge, having been elected to succeed the late Judge Hughes. He is an honored member of the Sacramento County Bar Association, in which he is always to be found on the side of a sane enforcement of adopted law. His membership in the Native Sons of the Golden West attests to his patriotic sentiments toward this state.

In 1914, Mr. White and Miss Oritta Elliot of Sacramento were married at Sacramento, the lady being the daughter of Henry Elliot, descendant of an old-time family, himself the junior member in the well-known firm of contractors, Messrs. Sprange and Elliot, and a member, on the mother’s side, of another pioneer family bearing the good old name of Osborne, early settlers in Ohio. Olive Elizabeth is the one child of this fortunate union. Mr. White is a member of the B. P. O. Elks, and of the Hermitage Club. He is fond of both walking and gardening, and in the cultivation of his comfortable home-place, gets a good deal of out-of-door exercise.

Transcribed by Barbara Gaffney.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 351-352. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.