Payette County ID Archives Biographies.....White, Roy S. 1883 - 1961
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Author: Hiram T. French

History of Idaho
By Hiram T. French, M.S.
The Lewis Publishing Co
Chicago & New York 1914

ROY S. WHITE

One of the foremost business men of New Plymouth, Idaho, is Roy S. White, who 
conducts the only exclusive hardware establishment of the town.  He is a young 
man of splendid business training, alert, resourceful and of the progressive 
order, and his store reflects his spirit, for it is one that in its equipment 
and appointments would be a credit to the largest city of the state.

A son of Robert N. White, he was born in Lyons, Wayne county, New York, May 
27, 1883, but in 1887 the family removed to Nebraska, where Roy S. grew to 
manhood.  Educated first in the public schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, he later 
became a student at Sheldon University, Chicago, Illinois, from which 
institution he was graduated as a Bachelor of Science in 1909.  Following that 
he completed a business course, and with this broad and thorough preparation 
for business activity he began his independent career.  In the meantime, 
however, he had been earning his own way and had been securing the means for 
his education, being thus in every sense a self-made man.  He started out as a 
wage earner at $3 per week and up to the time he located at New Plymouth, 
Idaho, had had more than a decade of practical business experience.  For seven 
years he had identified with the Lincoln Sash & Door Manufacturing Company, of 
Lincoln, Nebraska, subsequently serving one year for the National Lumber & Box 
Company, of Hoquiam, Washington, in charge of their sash and door department.  
Returning to Lincoln, Nebraska, he was department manager of the Appel 
Mercantile Company, wholesale milliners of that city, but after three years he 
resigned that position to become a stockholder and a director in the Plymouth 
Hardware & Lumber Company, of New Plymouth, Idaho.  In June, 1911, Mr. White 
purchased the entire stock and the good will of the hardware branch of this 
business and has since been engaged in its management, the establishment being 
know as that of the White Hardware Company.  It is the only concern of its 
kind in New Plymouth and carried a complete line of goods in all of its 
departments, while its fixtures in the way of cases and other such 
appointments are strictly modern and make of it an establishment that would be 
a credit to the largest cities of the West.  His progressive ideas are money 
makers, for his annual business is now approximately $20,000 and has shown a 
steady increase from the date of his purchase.

Robert N. White, the father of Roy S., and now a retired resident of Lincoln, 
Nebraska, is a native of New York and for many years followed the profession 
of mechanical engineer.  He was married December 15, 1876, at Fairville, New 
York, to Elizabeth Whitbeck, a native of New York and yet living.  Elias N. 
White, the grandfather of our subject, was born in New York in 1826 and is yet 
living, being now a resident of Burlington, Racine county, Wisconsin.  He has 
been a citizen of Wisconsin many years and is one of its prominent and highly 
esteemed men, having served three terms as a representative in the Wisconsin 
legislature and having served eighteen years as mayor of Burlington.

At Lincoln, Nebraska, on February 15, 1911, Mr. White was happily joined in 
marriage to Miss Lillian Van Sickle, a native of Nebraska and a daughter of G. 
A. Van Sickle.  Mr. and Mrs. White have one son, Harold Edgar, born January 1, 
1912, at New Plymouth, Idaho.  In political faith Mr. White is a Democrat but 
does not actively participate in political affairs.  He is a member of the 
lumber order of Hoo Hoos and is a member of the New Plymouth Commercial Club.  
He and his wife are communicants of the Congregational church.  Through he has 
been a resident of this state a very short period he is already one of its 
staunchest admirers and most loyal citizens, eager to aid in its forwarding.  

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