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HENRY SIMMONS WHITE
Originally published in 1900 |
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HENRY SIMMONS WHITE was born at Red Bank, Monmouth County,
N. J., July 13, 1844, and is of the fifth generation of his family in this
country, the founder, Thomas White, coining over from England about
two hundred years ago. His father, Isaac Pennington White. a well known
lumber merchant, who died January 28, 1876, was the son of Esek White
and Ann Besonet, his wife, of French Huguenot extraction; a grandson
of Thomas White, Jr., and a great-grandson of Thomas White, Sr., the
immigrant. On the maternal side Mr. White is of English and Irish ancestry, his mother, Adaline Simmons, being a descendant of the old Simmons family of Maryland, from which State her parents, Abraham Simmons and Temperance Jones, removed to Ontario County, N. Y., where
she was born.
Mr. White was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York (Medical Department of Columbia University) in 1864, but, being under age, did not receive the degree of M.D. until March, 1866. He was Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1864. From 1865 to 1868 he practiced medicine at Red Bank, N. J. He then read law with Hon. William A. Lewis, of Jersey City, was graduated from Columbia Law School, and in June, 1870, was admitted to the bar of New York. In October, 1872, he was admitted to practice as an attorney at the bar of New Jersey, and in November, 1875, as a counselor. Since 1872 he has successfully practiced his profession in Jersey City. He was Assistant Collector of Customs, Port of New York, from 1878 to 1882, delegate from New Jersey to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1888, United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1890 to 1894, and at present is Chairman of the Monmouth County Republican Committee. He is President of the Red Bank Board of Trade, Vice-President of the Nave sink National Bank of Red Bank, a Director in the Hudson County National Bank of Jersey City, and was at one time President of the Hudson Tunnel Railroad Company. He is a member of the Union League of Jersey City and the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was Department Commander in 1895 and 1896. Mr. White was married, November 19, 1878, at Freehold, N. J., to Annie H., daughter of Judge Amzi C. McLean and a granddaughter on her mother's side of John Hull, a Revolutionary soldier who was captured and held a prisoner by the British. They have one child, Margaretta P.
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