Will County IL Archives Biographies.....White, Julian E 1854 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

JULIAN E. WHITE. 

This young gentleman is engaged in the drug business in Joliet in which he 
made a permanent location in 1885, establishing himself in a business that is 
rapidly growing. With an upright character, the courteous and pleasing manners 
of a wellbred gentleman, and an intelligent mind, he has been admitted into 
the "inner circle" of society, while in business circles he is regarded as one 
of the most promising young men of the city. He is the third child of E. D. 
and Margaret (Adams) White who came with their family to Joliet in 1876. The 
father is now engaged in the music trade here and in addition to pianos and 
other musical instruments also handles sewing machines. He is a native of the 
Empire State, while his wife opened her eyes to the light in Pennsylvania. The 
subject of this biographical notice was born March 9, 1854, in Mayville, 
Chautauqua County, N. Y., but his boyhood was spent in Crawford County, Pa. 
After completing his education he became a drug clerk in his home town where 
he continued in that employment a year. Being attracted by the accounts he had 
heard of the Rocky Mountain region, he then went to Denver, Col., but finding 
no opening in the drug business became a clerk in an establishment devoted to 
the sale of men's furnishing goods. For two years he was thus employed when he 
journeyed eastward, reaching Joliet in the spring of 1877, his parents in the 
meantime having located here. He entered the establishment of J. D. Brown & 
Co., remaining there three or four years after which he went to Chicago. There 
he engaged with the drug firm of Lord, Stoutenberg & Co., as a traveling 
salesman and after two and one-half years spent in that capacity, he became an 
employe of the firm of Fuller & Fuller. For the latter firm he worked about 
three years after which he began business for himself at the time and place 
before noted. Mr. White is a firm believer in the principles of the Republican 
party, which he therefore supports on all occasions. He is identified with the 
Masonic fraternity, having reached the Royal Arch Degree and being Captain in 
the Chapter. An event interesting to Joliet society and particularly to Mr. 
White, took place at the residence of Osmond Fox, April 23, 1890. This was the 
marriage of our subject and Miss Jessie Fox, daughter of the host, a young 
lady whose intelligence, culture, and amiable character have given her 
popularity in society and endeared her to the hearts of many friends. The 
wedding ceremony was performed at six o'clock and was followed by an elegant 
reception participated in by the society people of Joliet. 

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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