Contra Costa County Biography

William Lincoln White

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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                 William Lincoln White, of Alamo, one of the notable factors in 
the recent development of southern Contra Costa County, was born at East Aurora, 
New York, close to where Ebert Hubbard reared his famous Roycroft community. He 
took up the profession of chemistry, and is today the sole owner of one of the 
largest drug stores in Michigan. Being an enthusiast in the National Guard of 
that State, Colonel White was commissioned a regimental commander, and during 
the Spanish-American War held that rank in command of Michigan volunteers. He is 
also prominent in  life-insurance circles, and was vice-president of the Federal 
Life Insurance Company of Chicago and director in the Niagara Life Insurance 
Company of Buffalo. It was in the furtherance of his insurance interests that 
Colonel White visited California, and while touring the State passed through the 
San Ramon Valley. He was so impressed with its attractions that four years ago 
he decided to make it his permanent home. He purchased the Benson ranch at 
Alamo, consisting of eight hundred and twelve acres, which is now known and 
famed as White-Hall Acres, one of the hospitable homes in Contra Costa, over 
which Colonel White's charming wife reigns as chatelaine. The subject of this 
sketch is vice-president of the First National Bank at Walnut Creek, president 
of the Tassajara Land & Live-stock Company, a corporation that farms seven 
thousand two hundred acres in Contra Costa County. He is a director in the 
Berkeley Thousand Oaks Realty Company, a commissioner of the famed Mount Diablo 
Park Club, one of the notable organizations of its character in the United 
States. Colonel White is the owner of the Contra Costa Courier at Walnut Creek 
and the Danville Journal at Danville. Despite his multifarious business and 
professional interests, he always finds time to devote his energies to the 
promotion of Contra Costa County's interests.
 
Source: "The History of Contra Costa County, California," Elms Publ. Co., 1918, 
pp. 600-601.