of Education; was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, term of 1878-1879; in 1880, he with E. B. and J. L. Grandin, Capt. H. H. Cummings, Jahu and L. Hunter, of Tidioute, organized the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company, which commenced business at Grandin, Missouri, in that year, with Mr. White as general manager, and later as president; it has become one of the most successful lumber companies in the west; its general offices are at Kansas City, Missouri, with mills and yards at various points in Missouri, Louisiana and other parts of the south and west. He was appointed postmaster of Grandin and served five years. Mr. White is also president of the Louisiana Central Lumber Company, the Forest Lumber Company, of Kansas City, Mo.; Reynolds Land Company; the Salem, Winona and Southern Railway Company; director and secretary of the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company; secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Missouri Lumber and Land Exchange, of Kansas City; is a member of the Board of Directors of the New England National Bank of Kansas City; and was president of the Bank of Popular Bluff at Popular Bluff, Missouri, from 1886 to 1907.

In 1907 Mr. White was appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate the affairs of the Cass Lake, Minnesota Indian Reservation, and his recommendations were favorably acted upon; he was further honored by President Roosevelt by an appointment as a member of the Forestry Department in the Commission for the Conservation of Natural Resources, and became one of the best informed and enthusiastic leaders of Conservation in America, devoting a great deal of his time to this very important subject.

In 1909 the Governor of Missouri appointed him a member of the State Board of Forestry and delegate to the National Conservation Congress at Seattle.

In 1912 he was elected president of the Fourth National Conservation Congress at Indianapolis.