San Francisco County
Biographies
JAMES ELLIOTT WHITE
JAMES ELLIOTT WHITE, of the firm of Jeffress
& White, real-estate agents of Oakland, was born February 24, 1857, in Sangerville, Piscataquis county,
Maine. For an account of his parentage and ancestry see sketch of Charles E.
White, elsewhere in this volume. He was brought up to farming and lumbering. At
the age of twenty years, in 1877, he came to Nevada and followed lumbering on
the shores of Lake Tahoe two years. For the next three years he was employed as
teamster in San Francisco, and six years longer on his own account. In May,
1889, he engaged in the real-estate business at Twenty-third avenue station, in
company with Thomas W. Jeffress, firm name Jeffress & White.
He
was married July 16, 1879, to Anna Elizabeth McKail,
born in Sacramento in 1855, daughter of James McKail.
Her father was born in England, January 3, 1811; her mother died in 1861, in
middle life. Mr. and Mrs. White’s children are: Lillie Hannah, born May 3,
1880; Burton James, born December 21, 1885; Raymond Charles, December 19, 1887.
Mr.
White is a member of California Lodge, No. 1, I. O. O. F., of San Francisco; of
Golden Gate Encampment, No. 1, of San Francisco, and of the Equitable Aid
Union.
Transcribed
by Elaine Sturdevant.
Source: "The
© 2006 Elaine Sturdevant.