Margaret E. Woodruff and William Stearns White

WILLIAM STEARNS WHITE, son of NANCY HOUSTON HUTCHISON and REV. HENRY SUMNER WHITE, was born October 9, 1867 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, and died January 31, 1945 in Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida.⁶⁹³⁷

He married MARGARET E. WOODRUFF on November 29, 1899 in Wayne County, Michigan.⁴⁸⁹⁰

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Obituaries

Palm Beach Post, February 2, 1945⁶⁹³⁷

WILLIAM S. WHITE, EX-PUBLISHER, DIES

William Stearns White, retired book publisher and for the past 10 years a resident of Palm Beach, who died at a local hospital late Wednesday night following a long illness. His home was at 141 Seaview Ave.

Born at Ann Arbor, Mich., the son of the Rev. Henry and Nancy White, Mr. White was graduated from Albion College in 1889 and for a time taught in the Michigan schools. He was connected with the American Book Co. for many years and later was New York manager for Lyons and Carnahan, Chicago publishers. Since his retirement he had spent his winters here and his summers in the North Carolina mountains. He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Hoover, who before her marriage to Mr. White was Mrs. Virgil Ormond Strickler of New York.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 p. m. at the chapel of the Ferguson Funeral Home with a Christian Science reader officiating.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 18, 18706932	Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin	Henry Sumner White Nancy Houston Hutchison George Sumner White Frank Newman White Charles Henry White William Stearns White
June 10, 18806929	Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan	Henry Sumner White Nancy Houston Hutchison George Sumner White William Stearns White
June 13, 19001038	Detroit, Wayne, Michigan	William Stearns White Margaret E. Woodruff