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Horace White, 1834-1916.

American journalist and writer on money and banking. 

Horace White originated from New Hampshire, graduating from Benoit College in 1853. White promptly launched a career in journalism, joining the Chicago Evening Journal. After a short spell serving as assistant secretary to the Kansas Commission during the "Bloody Kansas" days, Horace White joined the Chicago Tribune in 1857, eventually rose to editor and part-owner of the powerful newspaper..

Horace White was one of the principal correspondents of the Lincoln-Douglas debates during the senatorial campaign in Illinois in 1858. White was correspondent in Washington with the Chicago Tribune during the Civil War.   

In 1874, White resigned from the Tribune and joined Henry Villard's New York Evening Post and Nation.

 

  


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Major Works of Horace White

  • The Silver Question: an essay on the proposed remonetization of silver in the United States, read at the ASSA, 1876 [bk]
  • (Trans.) Sophisms of the Protectionists, by the late Frederic Bastiat, ,1870 [bk, av] [1888 ed, bk, av]
  • "Present Phases of the Currency Question", 1877, International Rev (Nov), p.790
  • "The Tariff Question and its Relations to the Present Commercial Crisis", read 1877 (Sep), pub. 1878, J of SS p.117 [offprint, av]
  • "After Specie Resumption - What?", 1878, International Rev (Nov) p.833
  • "The Silver Question: A review of Senator Beck's speech", 1886, NY Evening Post (Jan 13) [offpr, av]
  • "Future of Banking in the United States", 1886, PSQ (Dec) p.517 [js]
  • Surplus and the Tariff: an address, 1888 [bk]
  • "Introduction", 1888, in English translation of Luigi Cossa's  Taxation, its principles and methods, , p.iii [bk, av]
  • "Wells' Recent Economic Changes", 1890, PSQ (Jun), p.309 [js] (reply to Patten's review of Wells)
  • "The Silver Situation in the United States", 1890, QJE (Jul), p.291 [js]
  • "Review of HD Macleod's Theory of Credit", 1890, PSQ (Sep), p.520 [js]
  • "Bimetallism in France",  1891, PSQ (Jun), p.311 [js]
  • "Boehm-Bawerk on Capital", 1892, PSQ (Mar), p.133 [js]
  • "Review of Cobb's Threadneedle Street" ,1892, PSQ (Mar), p.156 [js]
  • "Introduction, 1892 in new ed of W.H. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln, p.xix.
  •  "National and State Banks", 1893, AAPSS (May) p.1 [js] [offpr; offpr]
  • "The Gold Standard", 1893, World Congress of Bankers & Financiers: Addresses, p.60 [offprint: av]
  • An Elastic Currency: "George Smith's money" in the early Northwest, 1893 [av]
  • Coin's Financial Fool or, The artful dodger exposed: A complete reply to 'Coin's financial school', 1895  [av]
  • Money and Banking, illustrated by American history, 1896 [bk, av] [1902 2nd ed, av, 1908 3rd ed, 1911 5th ed, av]
  • "Address of the Hon. Horace White", 1899, Proceedings at the thirteenth annual dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York, 1899 p.45 [av]
  • (Tran) The Roman History of Appian of Alexandria, 1899, v.1, v.2 [av1, av2]
  • Roman Political Life in the First Century: an address, 1900 [av]
  • "Abraham Lincoln in 1854", 1908, Putnam's Mag, (Jan 30), p.723 [av]
  • Address on the Need of a Central Bank, 1909
  • Lessons from the Life of Lincoln, an address, 1909
  • "Remarks of Horace White", 1909, Addresses delivered before the Commandery of the state of New York, [av]
  • Life of Lyman Trumbull, 1913 [bk]
  • The Lincoln and Douglas Debates: an address, 1914 [bk, av]

 


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Resources on  Horace White

  • "Review of White's Money and Banking" by J.F. Johnson, 1896, AAPSS (Mar), p.155 [js]
  • Coin's Financial School, by W.H. Harvey, 1894 [bk]
  • "White, Horace" in 1889,  Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
  • "White, Horace", 1900, National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, v.10
  • White page at Lincoln & Friends
  • White page at Beloit College
  • White page at House Divided
  • White papers guide at Chronicling Illinois
  • White papers archive at Benoit College
  • Wiki

 

 
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