WHITE, WILLIAM LEROY (1881-1938)

WHITE, WILLIAM LEROY, wholesale grocer; b. Sillikers, 6 Jun 1881, s/o Josiah White and Marjorie Tozer; m. 1901, Josephine Johnston, d/o James Johnston and Sarah White, of Sillikers; d. Moncton, 6 Mar 1938.

W. Leroy White was a woods cook and later a general merchant at Sillikers. In 1919 he moved to Newcastle and opened the City Meat Market. By 1927 he was a wholesale grocer. Later he created the firm of Leroy White & Sons, which was one of the leading wholesale grocery businesses on the Miramichi.

White was a member of the Baptist church and the Masonic order and was a well-known curler. He and his wife, Josephine Johnston, had three sons and three daughters living in 1938, when his death occurred in hospital in Moncton, at age fifty-six. Members of the family continued to conduct the wholesale firm for some years and also acquired other business interests in Newcastle.