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WHITE, Francis F.
, Manager of the William Davies Packing Co., Limited, Harriston,
Ont., is the son of Mrs. E. O. White, retired wholesale dry goods merchant,
Toronto. Mr. White comes of an old English family which has owned lands in
Bedfordshire, since the days of Queen Elizabeth. They trace their family on one
side from Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, who, in 1622, was M.P., for the
county. He m. Miss Sarah Shepherd of Basinghall St. London, a rich
heiress. Sir Francis Drake, the bold navigator, who sunk some ships of the
Spanish Armada sent to invade England, in the sixteenth century, was on an old
Devonshire family, and the mother of Francis F. White is a lineal descendent of
the old warrior, and the surname, Francis, has been perpetuated generation
after generation. There is much in a name when it commemorates the brave
defenders of one's native land. It is also recorded that one of the ancestors
of the White family went bail for the father of the grand old Puritan, John
Bunyan. It was charged that the old Bunyan had trespassed upon the estate of
the Lord of the Manor, and had taken a rook's nest of young birds from the
trees. The young rooks were a strange freak of nature, of white plumage,
instead of the natural black.
Francis F. White, was b. in Toronto, April 17, 1881, where he was educated. In his early boyhood, he went to England, and visited the village of Elstow, where the white rooks' adventure of olden days took place, near to the famous old abbey, built by Judith, the niece of William the Conqueror. A relative of Mr. White farms some 400 acres of the old Abbey lands. He began his commercial career in the office of the William Davies Co. Ltd, Toronto, and has literally grown up with the business, being promoted from time to time until he occupied the important position of Manager of the Export Department. In 1905, he came to Harriston in the capacity of Secretary-Treasure of the Davies Packing Co,., Ltd., and on January 1, 1906, was made Manager. The Harriston plant is an extensive one originally costing about $75,000. It employs about 60 hands, and has a capacity of handling 1,500 hogs per week. Its trade is largely and export one, which trade amounts to over 200 cars of bacon, hams and lard annually. From: Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario. Toronto: Historical Atlas Publishing Co., 1906 |
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