Philip White Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: WHITE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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     PHILIP WHITE, an enterprising and successful business man of
Exeter, has made substantial investments here and owns arid conducts
a tailor shop, all of his ventures prospering because of his close and care-
ful supervision of them. Mr. White was born in Russia, July 3, 1863,
and is a son of Joseph and Esther (Gordon) White. His mother survives
but his father, who was a contractor, died in Russia. They had children
as follows: Philip, Dora Lee, Abraham, Sarah, Samuel and Millie.
     In his native land Philip White attended school, and later had colle-
giate training, and in 1885 was graduated from a Russian gymnasium.
He then made his way to London, where he secured employment at
working on the making of uniforms, and for eight years continued in
the employ of the British government. From England, in 1892, he came
to the United States and began work in Boston at his trade of tailor ,
but six months afterward came to Exeter, where he has lived until the
present. Energy and thrift have accompanied all his efforts since com-
ing here and he has substantial results to show, his various business en-
terprises flourishing, as has been mentioned, while he also has invested
in property, owning the tenement house at No. 239 Water Street and
his handsome residence at No. 232 Water Street.
     Mr. White was married in May, 1886, to Miss Rebecca Gordon, who
is a daughter of Mayer and Jennie Gordon, the former of whom was
well known in the provision trade. Mr. and Mrs. White have five chil-
dren: Mayer, who is a resident of Boston, married Tillie Covener ;
Abraham M., who married Lulu Humbaugh; Fannie, who graduated at
Cambridge in a physical culture and art school, and is now a physical

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instructor at Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Leah, who is a student at Radcliffe 
College, and Vivian. Mr. White and family attend the Orthodox Jewish
Synagogue at Boston. In politics he is a Republican, and his fraternal
connections are with the Red Men, the Foresters of America and the
Jewish order of Brithabriham, at Haverhill, Mass. As an honorable
business man and irreproachable citizen, Mr. White enjoys general es-
teem and his family enjoy much social prominence.

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