William H. White was born on this date in 1851 in Vermont, and he was barely twenty-one when he moved to Moorhead, Minnesota from Brainerd and began a lumber business. The year was 1872, and the Northern Pacific Railroad was crossing the Red River into Dakota Territory. White was an enterprising young man, and he secured the railroad contract to supply timber for the approaches to the railroad bridge. But White’s business ranged much farther. He took lumber by flatboats on the Red River to Grand