Background
White, Trumbull was born on August 12, 1868 in Winterset, Iowa, United States. Son of John Trumbull and Frances (McCaughan) White.
White, Trumbull was born on August 12, 1868 in Winterset, Iowa, United States. Son of John Trumbull and Frances (McCaughan) White.
Student Amherst, 1886-1888.
City editor Decatur (Illinois) Review, 1889. Editor public Evansville (Indiana) Call, 1889-1890. With Chicago Morning News, Chicago Times and Chicago Record until 1901.
Canoe exploration northwestern Ontario, 1891.
Investigated Rainy Lake and Ontario gold fields, 1894. Took steerage journeys across Atlantic to study immigration questions and conditions, 1894.
Inquiry industrial and financial conditions, Mexico, 1896. In charge Chicago Record’s news service, Cuban Insurrection, 1897, Cuban, Porto Rican campaigns, et cetera, 1898, Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand and Australian colonies, 1897-1898.
Correspondent for Record and syndicate from Central Asia, Caucasus and Siberia, 1899.
On 1st experimental trip of line of steamers from Chicago via the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River to Europe and return, 1901. Industrial investigations in Alaska for Morgan-Guggenheim interests, 1909. Editor The Red Book, 1903-1906, Appleton’s Magazine, 1906-1909, Adventure, 1910-1911, Everybody’s, 1911-1915.
Vice president Leo L. Redding & Company, New York, 1919-1929.
Editorial counsel since 1930. Executive secretary Council for Tariff Reduction since 1931.
Author: Wizard of Wall Street, 1892. World’s Columbian Exposition (with William Iglehart), 1893.
Reuben and Cynthia at the World’s Fair, 1893.
War in the East, with history of China, Japan and of Korea, 1895. Silver and Gold, or Both Sides of the Shield (edited), 1895. Free Silver in Mexico (with William East. Curtis), 1896.
Our War with Spain, 1898.
Our New Possessions. 1899. Round the World Tours, 1900.
Martinique and the World’s Great Disasters, 1902. San Francisco Earthquake (with R. Linthicum).
1906. Contributor to Saturday Evening Post, New Outlook, Cosmopolitan, Everybody’s, Outing, Appleton’s, Metropolitan, et cetera
Honorary Master of Arts, Amherst, 1910. Member Amherst Chapter Delta Upsilon. Honorary member Grinnell Chapter Sigma Delta Chirurgical
Charter member Dutch Treat Club.
Home: 1950 Andrews Avenue, New York New New York (summer) Cedar Brooks Farm, Petoskey, Michigan Office: 2 West. 45th Saint, New New York
Member Amherst Chapter Delta Upsilon. Member Grinnell Chapter Sigma Delta Chirurgical Member Dutch Treat Club.
Married Katherine Short, July 15, 1890. Children: Laurence Trumbull (deceased), Owen Sheppard, Kenneth Sheldon.