John Edward White (1848 - 1894)

Born 1848 in Beaverton, Brock, Durham, Canada West

Ancestors

Died 1894 at about age 46 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

DR. JOHN EDWARD WHITE, who died in Toronto in 1894, was born in Beaverton, Ont., in 1848, the son of Henry White, also born in Canada, and a civil engineer of wide reputation.

He was educated at Upper Canada College, and at the University of Toronto, graduating in medicine in 1870. He began his medical practice at Pontiac, Michigan, but remained there only a short time, after which he moved to Parry Sound for a number of years, and then to Beaverton for three years, and finally to TOronto, where he settled on Carlton street.

In 1875 the Doctor married Annie Gurnee Hewitt Wallis, born in Toronto in 1852, daughter of Thomas George Wallis and Sarah Hewitt.

John and Annie White had three sons:

• Edward Hewitt White (20 Nov 1865 - 27 Mar 1932), ^[1]of Calgary, Alberta;
• Francis Otway White, of Toronto: and
• Conrad L. White, of Toronto.

John was born about 1849. He is the son of Henry White and Elizabeth Bowes.

Sources

1. ↑ "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLKL-KYH : 8 November 2017), Annie Gurnie Wallis in entry for Edward Hewitt White, 1932.

• Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of York, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1907, pp. 44-45
• "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-Y39G-J1D?cc=1784216&wc=3N75-N3D%3A1584309303%2C1584313101%2C1584314302 : 28 May 2015), Marriages > 1875 > no 9072-11574 > image 932 of 981; Archives of Ontario, Toronto.