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Personal data Leslie Robert White 

  • He was born on May 20, 1895 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL.
  • (note1) .Source 1
    Source: Bruce White
  • He died on February 6, 1960 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL, he was 64 years old.
  • He is buried after February 5, 1960 in Ridgewood Cem., Des Plaines, Cook Co., IL.
  • This information was last updated on January 25, 2019.

Household of Leslie Robert White

He is married to Margret Joyce Colberg.

They got married on August 31, 1918 at Chicago, Cook Co., IL, he was 23 years old.


Child(ren):



Notes about Leslie Robert White

Leslie Robert White

Source: Author: White, Bruce, Title: "Leslie Robert White," (Publication location: Des Plaines, IL, Publisher: Find-a-Grave, Publication date: xxviii July MMXVIII), Repository: The Cloud

Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191751718/leslie-robert-white

"Photo [of his stone] added by Bruce White

Leslie Robert White Birth 20 May 1895 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Death 6 Feb 1960 (aged 64) Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA Burial Ridgewood Cemetery Des Plaines, Cook County, Illinois, USA Plot Section 12, plot 371 Memorial ID 191751718

Son of George H. White and Ida E. (Price) White, (later Seymore). Born in Chicago, his parents were divorced. His father (George) was an Officer at Chicago Title and Trust. His Mother's second husband (William T Seymour) was in construction and worked on projects like Chicago Union Station, Navy Pier, and the Dearborn Street Subway. As a child Leslie ran around Navy Pier during construction.

He Married Margret Colberg (Kholberg) on August 31, 1918. They had two sons Robert Seymour White (Sept 19, 1922) and Leslie George White (May 19, 1929). Following Margret's death (1952), he was remarried to Hortense C Kruchell. At his death, his second wife had him laid to rest in her family plot at this location. He has a second head stone at the family plot with his first wife and father (George), in Acacia Park Cemetery, Chicago, IL. Magnola Section, Block 11, plot 108.

Leslie taught electrical systems for the US Navy during WWI at Great Lakes Naval base. Leslie went from the US Navy to becoming a lighting engineer. He assisted with the final adjustments on the originally lighting of the Wrigley building. In 1927, he was commissioned to do the lighting design on the Chicago Electric Chair. The building housing the chair was destroyed during the 2012 renovation of Cook County Jail. In December of 1941, installation of his design for lights on Wrigley Field was scheduled to begin the next Spring. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mr. Wrigley cancelled the project and donated the lighting equipment to the US Army.

Family Members

Parents

George H White 1869-1931

Spouse

Margret Joyce Colberg (Kolhberg) White 1891-1956 (m. 1918)

Children

Leslie G. White 1929-2012

Created by: Bruce White Added: 28 Jul 2018 Find A Grave Memorial 191751718"
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Leslie Robert White

Leslie Robert White
1895-1960

1918

Margret Joyce Colberg
1891-1956

Robert Seymour White
1922-1987

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Historical events

Birthday May 20, 1895

  • The temperature on May 20, 1895 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
    • April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
    • April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
    • May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
    • June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
    • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.

Day of marriage August 31, 1918

  • The temperature on August 31, 1918 was between 10.3 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 12.6 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
    • May 16 » The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
    • August 17 » Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
    • November 1 » Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
    • November 10 » The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
    • November 21 » The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
    • December 17 » Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Day of death February 6, 1960

  • The temperature on February 6, 1960 was between -2.8 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
    • January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
    • January 25 » The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
    • April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
    • May 23 » A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
    • August 16 » Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
    • September 10 » At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.


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