White-Wells Family Documents

PDF files

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• Articles about Gaylord Starin White
  • Meeting to aid the Normal College Alumnae Settlement
  • "Clergymen Visit Radical Centres"
  • "White Chosen Dean at Union Seminary"
  • "Rev. Dr. G. S. White Found Dead in Bed"
  • Gaylord White Houses in NYC -- how they got their name.
• Gaylord S. White, "The Social Settlement after Twenty-Five Years," The Harvard Theological Review, vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1911), 47-70.
• Gaylord S. White, "Reflections of a Settlement Worker," Scribner's Magazine LXXVI (July-December 1924), 633-638.
• Harry P. Kraus, The Settlement Movement in New York City, 1886-1914 (NY: Arno Press, 1980).
  • A thesis, written in 1970, about New York social settlements, which includes this acknowledgement: "l owe a special debt to Mrs. Franklin C. Wells and her brother, Mr. Charles T. White, for materials and personal recollections concerning their father, Gaylord S. White."
  • GSW is quoted and cited several times, and over three pages are devoted to his life and his participation in the Union Settlement (including his annual salary of $3,500!) -- pp. 93-96.
• Miscellaneous White-Wells family news
  • "Lake Forest Alumni Dine"
  • "Miss White to Wed F. C. Wells, Jr."
  • Dr. Franklin C. Wells, Sr. Obituary
  • "Katharine White Weds H. H. Hopkins"
  • "The City's History Told in a Pageant" -- designed by F. C. Wells, Jr.
• Camp Gaylord White
  • Postcard from Camp Gaylord White (as above)
  • Letter to the editor asking for assistance for the Camp (1936)
  • "Settlement Camp Opens" (1952)
  • "Parents, Be Prepared: Your Child May Bring a Friend From Camp" (1958)