Marjorie, it is not "my John Miller White". Actually, this is a very long magazine piece written back in Oct 1972. by his son.. His name was Victor H. White, but I know nothing about him or where he lived. From reading the article, he was the only child. This article had a large pic of John Miller White and I was flabbergasted that he looked just like my grandfather, and very much like my dad, and just like my brother now. There were numerous pictures of his art, and I can tell you as a painter myself, that man was good! And pictures of some of his skyscrapers and a dry dock at Bremerton Wash. He was born 1863 in Mercer Co, Pa. He had at least two brothers, William and one named Elmer, who worked with him in the brick trade. They were both tall, erect, determined and proud, and dressed in snug fitting sunday breeches, and wore high hats, always turning the ladies heads, but the Whites were strictly business. Six foot tall and long arms (the trademark of my own family).He had a cousin named Crawford. (My uncle was named Hulie Crawford White and I have never found out where the name came from). John Miller White was anti union and always worked as an independent. The article says he returned to Allegheny Pa, a suburb of Pittsburg, and entered art school, where he met his future wife, and was married in 1897. About a year later, he started west with his bride (also an artist)aand lived for a while in Colorado Springs. before moving on to Seattle. (Alaska and its gold was in his mind.) Then he took a job at Bremerton, Wash where he built the dry dock, and where his only son was born. When he went on to his brick laying in Cal, his wife divorced him and he was separated from the son that he never ceased to love and correspond with. He was in San Francisco during the big earthquake, and ensuing fires. The story reveals he formed a new construction team called "Scott and White" , and his brother, William White was his foreman. This brother, was still living in 1948 in Santa Cruz, Ca. They built the First National Bank Building in San Jose. Later John M White moved on to Burlingame where he pursued his art more. In 1913 John M remarried, in San Francisco. In 1918 he died from the influenza epidemic in Wilmington Delaware where he had gone on business. He was fifty five years old. This just skims the facts, but would be most interesting to any of his family or descendents. I found many things "recognizable" in it...for instance the good friend Scott that he formed the Scott and White Co with (there is a very famous Scott and White medical clinic to this day in Temple, Texas). Plus the physical descriptions and the Crawford name of a friend. But my Whites so far trace back to Richard in Loudoun Co, Va. I would like to know if there is a connection of the two families because of the similarities. I put this on the list in hopes someone out there might be his connection. Jean W mccoy@gvtc.com "Marjorie K. Beaumariage" wrote: > Dear Jean, > Do you have any ancestorial background on your John Miller White. Some > of my John White-Mary Ann Patterson line moved to Lawrence Co and also into > Mercer Co, PA.