Résumé

Principal, William P. White, Architect, Silver Bow, MT, c. 1895-1901. In 1899, White had an office in Room #14 of the Silver Bow Block in Butte, MT. (See Butte, Montana, City Directory, 1899, p. 470.)

Principal, William P. White, Architect, Seattle, WA, 1902-1917; From 1902-1908, White occupied Rooms #309-311 in the Washington Building; from 1909-1911, he had Rooms #625-627 in the Central Building. (The 1910 directory had the room as 825.) The Seattle City Directory 1912 (p. 1886) did not list White's name in the architects' classified listings. The Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1913, (p. 1656.) listed White's office as being in Room #402 of the Walker Building in Seattle. In 1915, he had his workplace in Room #302 of the Lumber Exchange Building. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1915, p. 1657.)

Principal. William P. White, Architect, Vancouver, BC, Canada, c. 1911-1914. Between 1911 and 1914, it appears that White worked in Seattle and Vancouver, BC, simultaneously.

His "White Building Company" operated in Room #403 of the Northern Bank and Trust Building in 1916. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1916, p. 1662-1663.) In 1917, he had leased Office #825 in the Northern Bank and Trust Building. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1917, p. 1703.)

Draftsman, US Naval Yard, Bremerton, WA, c. 1923-1932. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1930; Census Place: Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0007; FHL microfilm: 2342240, accessed 06/03/2019.) The Bremerton City Directory, 1931, (p. 206), listed him as an "architect" working at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton.

Relocation

White was born either in the State of New York or Connecticut. (The US Censuses of 1900 and 1930 indicated NY as his birthplace, while those of 1910 and 1920 said CT.) He lived in Moscow, ID, in 1892, where his daughter, Marguerite, was born. It is possible that the family lived here to be nearby to Carrie White's parents, who lived here.

A second daughter, Virginia, was born in MT, suggesting that the Whites had moved to that state by 1895. According to the book Shaping Seattle Architecture, White worked in Silver Bow, MT, at that time its own town (later it became absorbed by Butte, MT), as an architect between 1895 and 1901, at least. The Butte City Directory, 1899, listed the family's address as 1031 Caledonia Street (See Butte, Montana, City Directory, 1899, p. 470.). The 1900 US Census had the Whites living in Silver Bow, with Carrie's sister, Marguerite Vandewalker (born c. 06/1873 in MN), a stenographer, and a servant, Gina Lukla, (born 05/1877 in Norway). They lived in a house at 735 Caledonia Street. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Butte Ward 2, Silver Bow, Montana; Page: 6; Enumeration District: 0104; FHL microfilm: 1240914, accessed 06/03/2019.) The family remained in Silver Bow, through 1901, where Stewart White, the youngest child, was born.

He and his dependents moved to Seattle, WA, by 1902.

In 1912-1913, he and his wife, Carrie, and their children lived at 909 16th Avenue North. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1913, p. 1656.) Daughter Lydia White attended Broadway High School in 1913 and 1915, according to school yearbooks. (Lydia went on to the attend the University of Washington in 1918.) William and Carrie continued to make their home at 909 16th Avenue North in 1916. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1916, p. 1602.)

White and his family occupied a place at 309 15th Avenue North in 1919. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1919, p. 1841.)A year later, they rented a house at 312 15th Avenue North in Seattle. They had a lodger living with them at the time, Frank Queen (born c. 1874 in Canada).

White relocated to Bremerton, WA, by at least 1923, where he got a job as an architect at the US Navy's Puget Sound Shipyard. In 1923, the Whites lived at 1137 Washington Avenue. (See Bremerton, Washington, City Directory, 1923, p. 95.)

The 1930 US Census indicated that White and Carrie resided at 925 Washington Avenue in Bremerton, WA. They owned their own house at this time, a residence worth about $4,000 at the time. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1930; Census Place: Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0007; FHL microfilm: 2342240, accessed 06/03/2019.) They continued to live at this address in 1931. (See Bremerton City Directory, 1931, p. 206)

William P. White died in 1932.

Spouse

He wed Carrie Belle Vandewalker (born c. 1872 in MN-d. 06/17/1942 in Port Orchard, WA). They married on 01/26/1890 in Moscow, ID. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Upper Snake River Family History Center and Ricks College; Rexburg, Idaho; Idaho Marriages, 1842-1996, accessed 08/07/2024.)

Her mother was Lydia Ellen Lacey (1844-1935), and her father, Charles V. Vandewalker (1844-1932).

In 1940, eight years after William's death, Carrie resided back in Seattle, where she lived with her eldest daughter, Marjorie Dawson, in an apartment at 416 Roy Street. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04378; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 40-139B, accessed 06/03/2019.)

Children

He and Carrie had five children together, only four of whom survived in 1900. They included: Marguerite Eleanor White Dawson (born 09/21/1892 in Moscow, ID), Virginia White (born c.03/1895 in MT), Lydia B. White Forhan (born 08/24/1897 in Butte, MT-d. 02/15/1979 in Bremerton, WA) and Alvin Stewart White (born c. 1900 in Butte, MT-d. 07/02/1954 in Chehalis, WA). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Idaho State Department of Health; Boise, Idaho; Idaho Birth and Stillbirth Index, 1913-1964, accessed 06/03/2019 and Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Butte Ward 2, Silver Bow, Montana; Page: 6; Enumeration District: 0104; FHL microfilm: 1240914, accessed 06/03/2019.)

Marguerite was listed as "Marjorie" in the US Censuses of 1900, 1910 and 1940. She worked as a Seattle public school teacher in 1940.