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Title: The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American-Irish Historical Society
Subjects: American-Irish Historical Society Irish Americans Ethnology
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ich proclaimed it a new El Dorado in the far West, they,accompanied by a party of kindred souls from the AtlanticCoast, sailed for San Francisco, and after a stormy passage,entered the Golden Gate and reached their destination in January,1849. Senator Whites Family. Senator Whites parents were thus among the first pioneerswho braved the exacting trials of travel in that early day, andwho endured the perplexing rigors of existence in the primitivecamp which subsequently developed into the beautiful andcultured city which has erected ten thousand monuments uponher smouldering ashes, and which has given to the world anexample of heroic energy unparalleled in the annals of civicconstruction. William F. White, the father of the subject of this sketch, wasa well known writer and publicist in California. He was theauthor of a book entitled Pioneer Times in California underthe non de plume of William Gray, and frequent, enriched thepress of his adopted state with articles from his pen. He was
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STEPHEN MALLORY WHITE.Late United States Senator from California. AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 179 a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1878, whichprepared the present constitution of the State and was oneof its most valued and conservative counsellors. In 1879 hewas a candidate for Governor of California, but owing to unfor-tunate factional differences in his party, he was not elected.He died in 1890 at the age of seventy-four, universally belovedand respected. He was a devout Catholic, and noted for hischarities of large and valuable tracts of land to the Church.He led a pure Christian life, his name was the synonym of honesty,and when he passed away the people of his State mourned himas an irreparable loss to the community. Mrs. Fannie J. Whitesurvives her good husband, William F. White and her greatson, Stephen Mallory White. She is a resident of San Francisco,where sixty-two years ago she entered its beautiful harbor ablushing bride. She resides with her four unmarr

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