Stephen William White

Stephen William White

Stephen William White (July 16 1840 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — unknown date of death), secretary of the Northern Central Railway from 1877 to 1910, is well known for his English translations of Jules Verne's novels in the "Philadelphia Evening Telegraph".

Biography

* February 1854: entered the Central High School of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* February 1858: Bachelor of Arts from the Central High School
* 1863: Master of Arts from the Central High School of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* 1858 — 1870: shorthand clerk to the treasurer of the American Sunday School Union, assistant editor of Sunday School Times, and book-keeper to several importing dry goods houses.
* 1 February 1870 — 18 September 1873: worked as private secretary to Jay Cooke until Jay Cooke & Company was bankrupted, following the panic of 1873.
* January 1875: entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad System as assistant secretary of the Northern Central
* September 1877: promoted to secretary of the Northern Central
* 1910: retirement

Translations

* Jules Verne, "A Fancy of Doctor Ox" ( _fr. Une fantaisie du docteur Ox), first published in the "Philadelphia Evening Telegraph" on 20 June 1874, then reprinted as a 124 page book ("A Fancy of Doctor Ox; and, The Tour of the World in Eighty Days") later that year.
* Jules Verne, "The Tour of the World in Eighty Days" ( _fr. Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours), first published in the "Philadelphia Evening Telegraph" from 27 June 1874 to 17 July 1874, then reprinted as a 124 page book ("A Fancy of Doctor Ox; and, The Tour of the World in Eighty Days") later that year.
* Jules Verne, "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" ( _fr. Voyage au centre de la Terre), first published in the "Philadelphia Evening Telegraph" from 12 September 1874 to 5 October 1874, then reprinted as a book ("A Journey to the Centre of the Earth; And, A Winter's Sojourn in the Ice") later that year.
* Jules Verne, "A Winter’s Sojourn in the Ice" ( _fr. Un hivernage dans les glaces), first published in the "Philadelphia Evening Telegraph" from 6 October 1874 to 10 October 1874, then reprinted as a book ("A Journey to the Centre of the Earth; And, A Winter's Sojourn in the Ice") later that year.
* Jules Verne, "Mysterious Island" ( _fr. L'Île mystérieuse), first published in the "Philadelphia Evening Telegraph" in 1876, then reprinted as a 198 page book ("The Mysterious Island; With a Map of the Island and a Full Glossary") later that year.

References

* Short biography in the "Railway Age gazette", vol 49, Jul-Dec 1910 [http://books.google.com/books?id=F3glAAAAMAAJ]
* William Bender Wilson, "History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company: With Plan of Organization, Portraits of Officials and Biographical Sketches" [http://books.google.com/books?id=UyLtx_KPDAkC] (1895), pages 52-54
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/sherwood/NAJVS-Akron-White.htm Victorian Translators: Stephen W. White and William Struthers Revealed] , an extensive biographical research by Norman Wolcott and Kieran O'Driscoll


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