Stephen William White

Stephen William White (16 July 1840 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — October 1914^[1]), son of Emily and David W. White, was the secretary of the Northern Central Railway as well as a number of other Pennsylvanian railway companies until 1910 when he retired. Today, he is best known for his English translations of Jules Verne's novels in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.

Biography

• February 1854: entered the Central High School of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 11 February 1858: Bachelor of Arts from the Central High School
• 1858 — 1870: shorthand clerk to the treasurer of the American Sunday School Union, assistant editor of Sunday School Times, and bookkeeper to several importing dry goods and grocery houses.
• 1863: Master of Arts from the Central High School of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (31st class)
• 21 September 1865: married Ellen M. Leibert (1 July 1840 — 10 June 1897).
• 1 February 1870 — 1873: worked as private secretary to Jay Cooke until Jay Cooke & Company was bankrupted, following the panic of 1873.
• 1 January 1875: entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad as assistant secretary of the Northern Central Railway
• 26 September 1877: promoted to secretary of the Northern Central Railway
• 1 September 1880: elected Secretary of the Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad^[2]
• 1 February 1881: elected Assistant Secretary of the Pennsylvania Company and of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway^[2]
• 9 March 1881: elected clerk of the Girard Point Storage Company^[2]
• 1 July 1884: elected Secretary of the Sodus Bay and Southern Railroad^[2]
• 23 September 1885: elected Assistant Secretary of the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad^[2]
• 31 December 1886: elected Secretary of the Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad^[2]
• 18 September 1890: elected Assistant Secretary of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway^[2]
• 5 February 1892: elected Secretary of the Allegheny Valley Railway^[2]
• 1 August 1910: retirement at the age of 70^[3]

Translations

• Julius Hoffmann, Grandfather's Darling: A Tale (German: Großvaters Liebling: Eine Erzählung), Hoffman & Morwitz, 1872 OCLC 24674298
• Jules Verne, A Fancy of Doctor Ox (French: Une fantaisie du docteur Ox), first published in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph on 20 June 1874, then reprinted as a 124 page book (A Fancy of Doctor Ox; and, The Tour of the World in Eighty Days) later that year.
• Jules Verne, The Tour of the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours), first published in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph from 27 June 1874 to 17 July 1874, then reprinted as a 124 page book (A Fancy of Doctor Ox; and, The Tour of the World in Eighty Days) later that year.
• Jules Verne, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), first published in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph from 12 September 1874 to 5 October 1874, then reprinted as a book (A Journey to the Centre of the Earth; And, A Winter's Sojourn in the Ice) later that year.
• Jules Verne, A Winter’s Sojourn in the Ice (French: Un hivernage dans les glaces), first published in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph from 6 October 1874 to 10 October 1874, then reprinted as a book (A Journey to the Centre of the Earth; And, A Winter's Sojourn in the Ice) later that year.
• Jules Verne, Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse), first published in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph in 1876, then reprinted as a 198 page book (The Mysterious Island; With a Map of the Island and a Full Glossary) later that year.

References

• William Bender Wilson (1895) [1895]. History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company: With Plan of Organization, Portraits of Officials and Biographical Sketches. pp. 52–54. http://books.google.com/?id=UyLtx_KPDAkC. Retrieved 2008-10-11. 
• Norman Wolcott; Kieran O'Driscoll. "Victorian Translators: Stephen W. White and William Struthers Revealed". ibiblio. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/sherwood/NAJVS-Akron-White.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-11. 

1. ^ New England Society of Pennsylvania (December 1914). Thirty-fourth Annual Festival of the New England Society of Pennsylvania. pp. 128. http://books.google.com/?id=uMBYAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2008-10-12. "The Council reported the death during the year of [...] Stephen W. White, admitted [in] Dec., 1887, died [in] Oct. 1914" 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} In addition of his other aforementioned duties
3. ^ "Stephen William White Retired". Locomotive Firemen's Magazine (Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen (U.S.)) 49: 476. 1910. http://books.google.com/?id=ZnAWAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 2008-10-12. 

External links

• Works by Stephen W. White at Project Gutenberg
• Stephen W. White (1904). The Tour of the World in Eighty Days. A. L. Burt. http://www.archive.org/download/worldeightydays00vernrich/worldeightydays00vernrich_bw.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-24.