Walter Roy White Biography


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				WALTER ROY WHITE. 

	Walter Roy White, a member of the bar practicing at Centerville, 
was born in Delaware township, Lincoln county, South Dakota, November 
24, 1880, a son of Daniel Walter, who was born July 7, 1852, in Brewer, 
Maine, and Andora (Keller) White, born September 15, 1852, in 
Pennsylvania. The former is a descendant of Peregrine White, the first 
child born after the landing of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower, and 
the family is an old one in Maine. Daniel W. White left Maine when a 
boy and with his parents settled in eastern Iowa, remaining there until 
1874. In that year he removed to Dakota territory and homesteaded in 
Eden township, Lincoln county, where he carried on general farming for 
a number of years, afterward removing to Delaware township, where he 
again owned and cultivated a tract of land. He and his wife now live 
retired in Centerville, enjoying the fruits of their former toil. 

	Walter Roy White was educated in the district schools and 
supplemented his preliminary training by a course in the University of 
South Dakota at Vermillion, which he entered in 1898. He had previously 
studied law in a school at Detroit, Michigan, and entered the law 
department at Vermillion in 1903, being graduated therefrom with the 
class of 1906. After having thus carefully prepared for the bar he 
entered the office of C. B. Kennedy for the practice of law at Canton, 
South Dakota. After a short time he entered into partnership with Lewis 
Berven at Centerville and purchased the library and practice of Madeen 
& Madeen of Centerville in 1906. The partnership continued for a year, 
at the end of which time Mr. White, because of ill health, sold out to 
Mr. Berven. He then traveled and bought and sold real estate until 
December, 1913, when, having regained his health, he again engaged in 
the practice of his profession and is now accorded a large and 
distinctively representative clientage. He prepares his cases in a 
thorough, painstaking and conscientious manner, with the result that he 
has won many notable cases and is regarded as one of the prominent 
lawyers of his county. He was appointed city attorney in May, 1914, and 
is now representing the legal interests of Centerville. His political 
allegiance is given the republican party, which finds in him a stalwart 
champion, ever ready to support his position by intelligent argument. 
He belongs to the Commercial Club of Centerville and is in hearty 
sympathy with its efforts to promote the development of the community.