CharlesTrumbull White (1941)
WHITE
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 3/5/2012 at 06:24:09
New York Times
New York, New York
December 13, 1941
Page 69, Column 1Author of Editorial Counsel for Magazines since 1930 - Stricken at Home Here
JOURNALIST AND EXPLORER
Covered Cuban Insurrection in 1897 and Establishment of Our Colonies in Pacific
Trumbull White, former magazine editor, author and explorer, died last night at his home 535 East Eighty-eighth Street, after a three-month illness. Since 1930 Mr. White had been an editorial counsel for American magazines, to which he had been a former contributor. He was 73 years old.
Mr. White was born in Winterset, Iowa, the son of John Trumbull and Frances McCaughan White. He attended Amherst College from 1886 to 1888, when he left college to enter newspaper work in the Midwest. In 1890 he was editor and publisher of The Evansville (Ind.) Call and from 1890 to 1901, was employed by The Chicago Morning News, Chicago Times and Chicago Record. He interrupted his newspaper career several times to join explorations.
Covered Fighting in Cuba
While in charge of The Chicago Record's news service he covered the Cuban insurrection in 1897, the Cuban and Puerto Rican campaigns in 1898 and the establishment of colonies in Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand and Australia in 1897 and 1898. He was a correspondent in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Siberia in 1899 and in 1901 he made the first experimental trip by steamer from Chicago via the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence to Europe and return.In 1909 Mr. White conducted industrial investigations in Alaska for the Morgan and Guggenheim interests. He was editor of Red Book Magazine, 1903-06, later becoming editor of Appleton's Magazine, Adventures and Everybody's. From 1919 to 1929 he was vice president of Leo L. Redding & Co. of New York.
Wrote Several Books
Among the books he wrote were:
"Wizard of Wall Street," 1892;
"Reuben and Cynthia at the World's Fair," 1893;
"War in the East," 1895;
"Silver and Gold," 1895;
"Free Silver in Mexico" (with William E. Curtis), 1896;
"Our War with Spain." 1898;
"Our New Possessions," 1899; and
"Round the World Tours," 1900.He had been a contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, New Outlook, Cosmopolitan, Outing and Metropolitan magazines.
He leaves a widow, Mrs. Katherine Short White; two sons Owen Sheppard White, Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, ad Kenneth Sheldon White, editor of Adventure magazine of New York; a brother Frank White, chief engineer of the San Francisco Harbor Commission, and a sister, Jessie, both of Berkeley, Calif.
_______________________The Tennessean
Nashville, Tennessee
Monday, December 15, 1941
Page 12, Column 3Former Magazine Editor, Author and Explorer Dies
New York, Dec, 14 –AP- Trumbull White, 73, former magazine editor, author and explorer, died yesterday after a short illness.
White, a native of Winterset, Ia., began his career as a newspaperman in Chicago, covered the Cuban insurrection of 1897 and made several trips to Asia. He was editor of Redbook Magazine from 1903 to 1906 and later edited Appleton’s magazine, Adventure and Everybody’s.
_______________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 17, 1941
Page 1TRUMBELL WHITE DIED SATURDAY
Trumbell White, internationally known author, editor, explorer, and one of Winterset’s most distinguished native sons, died last Saturday, according to information reaching here.
White was born in Winterset of a prominent family here at that time. He moved away as a young man, and his home had been in the east for many years. He was 73 years old at the time of his death.
Trumbell White was the author of many books, but was probably most widely known as the editor of the Redbook magazine.
Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published, full correct name is "Charles Trumbull White". Per New York Death records, deceased passed away on 13 Dec 1941 at New York City, Manhattan, New York.
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