Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/White, Horace

WHITE, HORACE, an American editor; born in Colebrook, N. H., Aug. 10, 1834. He settled in Chicago, was editor of the Chicago &ldquo;Tribune&rdquo; (1864-1874); and subsequently became connected with the New York &ldquo;Evening Post.&rdquo; He wrote many pamphlets and essays on political, social, and financial topics, the best known being: &ldquo;The Silver Question&rdquo;; &ldquo;The Tariff Question&rdquo;; &ldquo;Coin's Financial Fool&rdquo;; &ldquo;Money and Banking Illustrated by American History&rdquo;; &ldquo;The Gold Standard&rdquo;; &ldquo;Life of Lyman Trumbull&rdquo; (1913); and edited Bastiat's &ldquo;Sophismes Economiques&rdquo; (1876) and Cossa's &ldquo;Scienza delle Finanze&rdquo; (1889). He died in 1916.