Edwin Lee White was born in 1896. He graduated from the Normal School in 1914, went one year to Earlham College, and taught school in Barnes County for one year. He left the University of North Dakota in the Spring of 1917 to join the United States Navel Reserve. Before going on active duty, he married Christena K. Black, who was born in Churches Ferry, North Dakota, and was a graduate of the Normal School.

Edwin served on active duty until February, 1919, mostly on transport duty in the North Atlantic. After the war, he entered business in Indiana, and never resumed residence in North Dakota.

Early in 1921, Edwin moved to the District of Columbia and entered George Washington University, obtaining his AB in 1922, and his MS in 1925. He entered the service of the Federal Government in 1922; and served with distinction until 1955, when he retired.

In World War II, Edwin took leave of absence from his Government service to go on active military service one month before Pearl Harbor. He served until February, 1946, achieving the rank of Colonel in the Air Corps. He retired from his reserve commission in 1956.

Christena died in 1953, and is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery in the plot next to the Frank Whites. Edwin has remarried to Marjorie M. Bunting, D.P.M., of Trenton, New Jersey. They live in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Edwin White has four children, fourteen grandchildren and, as of this writing, ten great grandchildren.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 265