James Wharton White (17 February 1857 – 30 January 1930), often referred to as "Wharton White", was an auctioneer, pastoralist and politician in colonial South Australia. He spent the latter half of his life in

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. He was born the eldest son of Abraham White (c. 1828 – 15 May 1885), farmer and railway contractor of "Illawarra",

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, and his wife Mary, née Wharton, ( – c. 1931). His uncle James "Nobby" White (c. 1820–1890) was a pastoralist and noted politician. He was educated at James Hosking's Gouger Street Academy, and was four years with John McLaren in the auctioneering firm McLaren, White & Co. He ran a sheep station some north of Pinnaroo. In 1881 he was involved in a complex legal argument, which went as far as the

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in England, with John "Jack" Neaylon over ownership of the lease later known as Appatoongannie. White and his partner Thomas Neaylon (John's brother) lost. He represented the

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seat of

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from April 1890 to April 1896 as colleague of

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. In 1894 he paid a six-month visit to the Western Australian goldfields, and at the Kurnalpie field near Coolgardie, staked a claim with one Mr. Thring, and was immediately rewarded with a useful haul of the precious metal, but found nothing at lower depths. On returning to South Australia, he purchased, with

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and

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, from Frank Denford of Mount Serle Station, the lease to the "Angipena Treasure Mine", which had been fraudulently " salted". He left South Australia for Western Australia sometime before 1897, when he settled in Esperance. He was for a time employed as Rabbit Fence Inspector, and died in the Esperance Hospital.

Family

James Wharton White (17 February 1857 – 30 January 1930) married Sophie Agnes Geier in Kapunda. He married again, in Kalgoorlie, to Mary Gycer. Among their children were: *Arthur Wharton White (29 March 1886 – 21 July 1955) married Elise May Jones on 28 May 1914 in

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, WA. He was a fettler with the Western Australian railways *James Wharton White (c. 1899 – 14 December 1975) married Jessie Dalrymple Aitken (13 November 1913 – 28 July 1995) on 17 January 1931

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:White, James Wharton Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Australian auctioneers Australian pastoralists 1857 births 1930 deaths Colony of South Australia people