From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 475.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN A. WHITE

A son of John and Bridget (Dunn) White, John A. White, a well-known 
citizen of Wheeling, is extensively engaged in trade as a wholesale 
and retail dealer in leather shoe findings and specialties at No. 
1117 Market street.  He was born in this city April 18, 1843.  He 
attended school in the basement of the Cathedral unit until his 
fourteenth year, after which he studied one year and a half at St. 
Charles college at Ellicott City, Md.  Returning to Wheeling he took 
a position in a retail grocery store, and subsequently spent two 
years in the dry goods business as a clerk.  He then took a full 
course at Duff's Commercial college, at Pittsburgh, from which 
institution he received his diploma on September 4, 1863.  He then 
took the position of book-keeper for the wholesale grocery house of 
Mr. Reilly, and remained there until March, 1869, when he took a 
position with the firm of Berger & Hoffman, tanners and leather 
dealers.  After that firm dissolved in 1876, he was for one year a 
member of the firm of Berger & White, which succeeded.  This latter 
partnership was dissolved in 1877, and Mr. White then engaged in 
business for himself at No. 1121 Market street, whence he removed to 
his present place in 1886.  He began on a limited scale, but has 
gradually increased his business until he now has the leading 
establishment of the kind in the city.  Mr. White was married in 
1869, to Margaret E., the oldest daughter of Jacob Snyder, a 
wholesale iron merchant of Wheeling.  She is now deceased, leaving a 
son and two daughters.  In 1883, Mr. White was married to Ellen 
Girvin, of Wheeling, by whom he has four children.  He and family are 
members of the Cathedral church.


(Linda Fluharty)