Harold Richard Whiting's brother:
On March 5, 1910, he married Mary LouEllen King (1888-1972).
They were the parents of one son, Richard Webster Whiting (1912-1993).
On December 31, 1918 Louis Wine Whiting and Mary King Whiting divorced at Alexandria, Virginia.
In 1919, Mary King Whiting married Charles Reid Ogsbury (1892-1971).
San Francisco Chronicle April 9, 1919
Belleau Wood Hero Arrives: Has War Cross
Capt. L.W. Whiting Was Twice Wounded; Named for U.S. Honor Award
With the salutations of admiring French officers still a vivid memory and the French Cross of War, Captain Louis W. Whiting, of the old 2d Engineers, who left for France in September 1917, reached the Letterman Hospital yesterday to spend the final days of his association in the Army before returning to civil life. Three gold service stripes adorn one sleeve and two wound stripes the other, testifying that the Captain has seen hard service.
For being the first American soldier in Belleau Wood and for rallying the uncertain French defenses with the American slogan used so effectively at Verdun: They shall not pass the Americans, either. Captain Whiting has been recommended for the American Distinguished Service Cross.
The 2d Engineers saw their hardest fighting and their first real baptism of fire with the famous Marine Corps contingent, just as the Germans were making their final effort to penetrate to Amiens. At Belleau Wood the Marines, helped by the Engineers, halted the German advance. It was Captain Whiting who, crawling through the German lines alone, disregarding all advice from the French, established the enemy position and fixed the line for the Americans to hold.
We were told to hold it at all costs, said Captain Whiting yesterday, but we had only a scattered line, with one man about every five feet. Just before the attack I went along the line cheering up the men until I came to the Master Engineer. Scared Sergeant? I asked him. No, not scared, but praying like hell, was his response. Not an American wavered during the whole engagement.
Captain Whiting was a civil and mining engineer working from Alaska to South American before the war. As he has nearly recovered from the last attack of gas he was yesterday granted a thirty day furlough during which he will visit a cousin in Ukiah.
Maryland in the World War 1917-1919 Military and Naval Service Records
ORC August 15, 1917 Captain Engineer C, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Belvoir Virginia; American University; 2nd Engineers; 116th Engineers June 9, 1918; 6th Engineers August 29, 1918; Patient at Hospital AEF October 16, 1918; Patient at 1 Embark Hospital; Patient at Walter Reed General Hospital Washington, D.C. February 12, 1919; Patient at Letterman General Hospital San Francisco California March 30, 1919. Honorable discharge August 26, 1919. Overseas September 10, 1917 to February 7, 1919, Toulon-Troyon Sector; Aisne; Chateau-Thierry Sector; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Wounded slightly October 16, 1918.
With Prominent People You Know - The Mining Journal 1/15/1931
The Mt Montgomery Quicksilver Company has blocked out enough ore at Mt Montgomery, Nevada, to run a 25-ton furnace a couple of years, according to Louis W Whiting, President and General Manager. It is 6 to 12 pound quicksilver ore that lends itself readily to reduction. The company planned to install the furnace last summer, but financial arrangements were not completed early enough in the season to allow its construction. The mine is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, and the snow flies early.
Louis W Whiting was born at Washington, DC, 46 years ago. He studied mechanical engineering for three years at the University of Maryland, and civil engineering for two years, at the George Washington University.
In 1905 he was made an inspector in the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, followed an instrument man, and chief inspector at the Anacostia River Bridge, also in Washington.
He came to the Western country in 1907, and joined the city engineering department in Seattle, Washington. There, he became associated with the Guggenheim engineers, who, realizing his natural talents and observations, advised him to change his career to mining. As a sideline, he scouted the territory along Southern Oregon, and Northern California, and superintended the operation of a couple of mines.
In 1914 he returned to Seattle as Assistant Engineer of the Port of Seattle, on dock construction.
During the war (WW1), he was wounded, and gassed, in Belleau Woods, and while convalescing, built docks at St Nazaire. He returned to the front with the Sixth Engineers, was again wounded, gassed, and injured by explosives.
These circumstances have made it necessary for him to stay in a dry climate, so he took up mining in Nevada. Besides the Mt Montgomery Quicksilver, he owns several mines, including the controlling interest in the Endowment Mining Company. Several carload shipments have been made from the Endowment, but work was suspended there until the price of silver improves.
Whiting enjoys hunting and fishing, and general out-of-door sports. He is fond of dogs. He has coached some football, and at the outbreak of the war, was signed up with a southern university.
He is a member of several military organizations, and a charter member of the American Legion, and of the Society of American Military Engineers.
The Mines Handbook - 1922
Black Mountain Silver Mining Company - Nevada
Address: WW Whiting, Sec, Box 111, Mina, Nevada
Officers: Louis W Whiting, Pres-Mgr; Dr AE Sparks, VP; WW Whiting Sec-Treas.
Incorp. October 14, 1919; Capitalization $150,000; 1,046,000 shares outstanding.
Property: 7 claims, 110 acres, in Silver Star district, 2 miles North of Marietta, Mineral county, adjoining Nevada Tri-Metallic. The main vein, 5' wide, os a contact fissure in diabase and altered sedimentaries, containing shipping ore said to carry 65 oz silver and 20% lead, with some gold and copper. Developed by tunnel said to expose a 300' ore shoot. Active mid-1922 when lease was taken on the neighboring Endowment mine.
On March 5, 1910, he married Mary LouEllen King (1888-1972).
They were the parents of one son, Richard Webster Whiting (1912-1993).
On December 31, 1918 Louis Wine Whiting and Mary King Whiting divorced at Alexandria, Virginia.
In 1919, Mary King Whiting married Charles Reid Ogsbury (1892-1971).
San Francisco Chronicle April 9, 1919
Belleau Wood Hero Arrives: Has War Cross
Capt. L.W. Whiting Was Twice Wounded; Named for U.S. Honor Award
With the salutations of admiring French officers still a vivid memory and the French Cross of War, Captain Louis W. Whiting, of the old 2d Engineers, who left for France in September 1917, reached the Letterman Hospital yesterday to spend the final days of his association in the Army before returning to civil life. Three gold service stripes adorn one sleeve and two wound stripes the other, testifying that the Captain has seen hard service.
For being the first American soldier in Belleau Wood and for rallying the uncertain French defenses with the American slogan used so effectively at Verdun: They shall not pass the Americans, either. Captain Whiting has been recommended for the American Distinguished Service Cross.
The 2d Engineers saw their hardest fighting and their first real baptism of fire with the famous Marine Corps contingent, just as the Germans were making their final effort to penetrate to Amiens. At Belleau Wood the Marines, helped by the Engineers, halted the German advance. It was Captain Whiting who, crawling through the German lines alone, disregarding all advice from the French, established the enemy position and fixed the line for the Americans to hold.
We were told to hold it at all costs, said Captain Whiting yesterday, but we had only a scattered line, with one man about every five feet. Just before the attack I went along the line cheering up the men until I came to the Master Engineer. Scared Sergeant? I asked him. No, not scared, but praying like hell, was his response. Not an American wavered during the whole engagement.
Captain Whiting was a civil and mining engineer working from Alaska to South American before the war. As he has nearly recovered from the last attack of gas he was yesterday granted a thirty day furlough during which he will visit a cousin in Ukiah.
Maryland in the World War 1917-1919 Military and Naval Service Records
ORC August 15, 1917 Captain Engineer C, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Belvoir Virginia; American University; 2nd Engineers; 116th Engineers June 9, 1918; 6th Engineers August 29, 1918; Patient at Hospital AEF October 16, 1918; Patient at 1 Embark Hospital; Patient at Walter Reed General Hospital Washington, D.C. February 12, 1919; Patient at Letterman General Hospital San Francisco California March 30, 1919. Honorable discharge August 26, 1919. Overseas September 10, 1917 to February 7, 1919, Toulon-Troyon Sector; Aisne; Chateau-Thierry Sector; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Wounded slightly October 16, 1918.
With Prominent People You Know - The Mining Journal 1/15/1931
The Mt Montgomery Quicksilver Company has blocked out enough ore at Mt Montgomery, Nevada, to run a 25-ton furnace a couple of years, according to Louis W Whiting, President and General Manager. It is 6 to 12 pound quicksilver ore that lends itself readily to reduction. The company planned to install the furnace last summer, but financial arrangements were not completed early enough in the season to allow its construction. The mine is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, and the snow flies early.
Louis W Whiting was born at Washington, DC, 46 years ago. He studied mechanical engineering for three years at the University of Maryland, and civil engineering for two years, at the George Washington University.
In 1905 he was made an inspector in the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, followed an instrument man, and chief inspector at the Anacostia River Bridge, also in Washington.
He came to the Western country in 1907, and joined the city engineering department in Seattle, Washington. There, he became associated with the Guggenheim engineers, who, realizing his natural talents and observations, advised him to change his career to mining. As a sideline, he scouted the territory along Southern Oregon, and Northern California, and superintended the operation of a couple of mines.
In 1914 he returned to Seattle as Assistant Engineer of the Port of Seattle, on dock construction.
During the war (WW1), he was wounded, and gassed, in Belleau Woods, and while convalescing, built docks at St Nazaire. He returned to the front with the Sixth Engineers, was again wounded, gassed, and injured by explosives.
These circumstances have made it necessary for him to stay in a dry climate, so he took up mining in Nevada. Besides the Mt Montgomery Quicksilver, he owns several mines, including the controlling interest in the Endowment Mining Company. Several carload shipments have been made from the Endowment, but work was suspended there until the price of silver improves.
Whiting enjoys hunting and fishing, and general out-of-door sports. He is fond of dogs. He has coached some football, and at the outbreak of the war, was signed up with a southern university.
He is a member of several military organizations, and a charter member of the American Legion, and of the Society of American Military Engineers.
The Mines Handbook - 1922
Black Mountain Silver Mining Company - Nevada
Address: WW Whiting, Sec, Box 111, Mina, Nevada
Officers: Louis W Whiting, Pres-Mgr; Dr AE Sparks, VP; WW Whiting Sec-Treas.
Incorp. October 14, 1919; Capitalization $150,000; 1,046,000 shares outstanding.
Property: 7 claims, 110 acres, in Silver Star district, 2 miles North of Marietta, Mineral county, adjoining Nevada Tri-Metallic. The main vein, 5' wide, os a contact fissure in diabase and altered sedimentaries, containing shipping ore said to carry 65 oz silver and 20% lead, with some gold and copper. Developed by tunnel said to expose a 300' ore shoot. Active mid-1922 when lease was taken on the neighboring Endowment mine.
Harold Richard Whiting's brother:
On March 5, 1910, he married Mary LouEllen King (1888-1972).
They were the parents of one son, Richard Webster Whiting (1912-1993).
On December 31, 1918 Louis Wine Whiting and Mary King Whiting divorced at Alexandria, Virginia.
In 1919, Mary King Whiting married Charles Reid Ogsbury (1892-1971).
San Francisco Chronicle April 9, 1919
Belleau Wood Hero Arrives: Has War Cross
Capt. L.W. Whiting Was Twice Wounded; Named for U.S. Honor Award
With the salutations of admiring French officers still a vivid memory and the French Cross of War, Captain Louis W. Whiting, of the old 2d Engineers, who left for France in September 1917, reached the Letterman Hospital yesterday to spend the final days of his association in the Army before returning to civil life. Three gold service stripes adorn one sleeve and two wound stripes the other, testifying that the Captain has seen hard service.
For being the first American soldier in Belleau Wood and for rallying the uncertain French defenses with the American slogan used so effectively at Verdun: They shall not pass the Americans, either. Captain Whiting has been recommended for the American Distinguished Service Cross.
The 2d Engineers saw their hardest fighting and their first real baptism of fire with the famous Marine Corps contingent, just as the Germans were making their final effort to penetrate to Amiens. At Belleau Wood the Marines, helped by the Engineers, halted the German advance. It was Captain Whiting who, crawling through the German lines alone, disregarding all advice from the French, established the enemy position and fixed the line for the Americans to hold.
We were told to hold it at all costs, said Captain Whiting yesterday, but we had only a scattered line, with one man about every five feet. Just before the attack I went along the line cheering up the men until I came to the Master Engineer. Scared Sergeant? I asked him. No, not scared, but praying like hell, was his response. Not an American wavered during the whole engagement.
Captain Whiting was a civil and mining engineer working from Alaska to South American before the war. As he has nearly recovered from the last attack of gas he was yesterday granted a thirty day furlough during which he will visit a cousin in Ukiah.
Maryland in the World War 1917-1919 Military and Naval Service Records
ORC August 15, 1917 Captain Engineer C, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Belvoir Virginia; American University; 2nd Engineers; 116th Engineers June 9, 1918; 6th Engineers August 29, 1918; Patient at Hospital AEF October 16, 1918; Patient at 1 Embark Hospital; Patient at Walter Reed General Hospital Washington, D.C. February 12, 1919; Patient at Letterman General Hospital San Francisco California March 30, 1919. Honorable discharge August 26, 1919. Overseas September 10, 1917 to February 7, 1919, Toulon-Troyon Sector; Aisne; Chateau-Thierry Sector; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Wounded slightly October 16, 1918.
With Prominent People You Know - The Mining Journal 1/15/1931
The Mt Montgomery Quicksilver Company has blocked out enough ore at Mt Montgomery, Nevada, to run a 25-ton furnace a couple of years, according to Louis W Whiting, President and General Manager. It is 6 to 12 pound quicksilver ore that lends itself readily to reduction. The company planned to install the furnace last summer, but financial arrangements were not completed early enough in the season to allow its construction. The mine is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, and the snow flies early.
Louis W Whiting was born at Washington, DC, 46 years ago. He studied mechanical engineering for three years at the University of Maryland, and civil engineering for two years, at the George Washington University.
In 1905 he was made an inspector in the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, followed an instrument man, and chief inspector at the Anacostia River Bridge, also in Washington.
He came to the Western country in 1907, and joined the city engineering department in Seattle, Washington. There, he became associated with the Guggenheim engineers, who, realizing his natural talents and observations, advised him to change his career to mining. As a sideline, he scouted the territory along Southern Oregon, and Northern California, and superintended the operation of a couple of mines.
In 1914 he returned to Seattle as Assistant Engineer of the Port of Seattle, on dock construction.
During the war (WW1), he was wounded, and gassed, in Belleau Woods, and while convalescing, built docks at St Nazaire. He returned to the front with the Sixth Engineers, was again wounded, gassed, and injured by explosives.
These circumstances have made it necessary for him to stay in a dry climate, so he took up mining in Nevada. Besides the Mt Montgomery Quicksilver, he owns several mines, including the controlling interest in the Endowment Mining Company. Several carload shipments have been made from the Endowment, but work was suspended there until the price of silver improves.
Whiting enjoys hunting and fishing, and general out-of-door sports. He is fond of dogs. He has coached some football, and at the outbreak of the war, was signed up with a southern university.
He is a member of several military organizations, and a charter member of the American Legion, and of the Society of American Military Engineers.
The Mines Handbook - 1922
Black Mountain Silver Mining Company - Nevada
Address: WW Whiting, Sec, Box 111, Mina, Nevada
Officers: Louis W Whiting, Pres-Mgr; Dr AE Sparks, VP; WW Whiting Sec-Treas.
Incorp. October 14, 1919; Capitalization $150,000; 1,046,000 shares outstanding.
Property: 7 claims, 110 acres, in Silver Star district, 2 miles North of Marietta, Mineral county, adjoining Nevada Tri-Metallic. The main vein, 5' wide, os a contact fissure in diabase and altered sedimentaries, containing shipping ore said to carry 65 oz silver and 20% lead, with some gold and copper. Developed by tunnel said to expose a 300' ore shoot. Active mid-1922 when lease was taken on the neighboring Endowment mine.
On March 5, 1910, he married Mary LouEllen King (1888-1972).
They were the parents of one son, Richard Webster Whiting (1912-1993).
On December 31, 1918 Louis Wine Whiting and Mary King Whiting divorced at Alexandria, Virginia.
In 1919, Mary King Whiting married Charles Reid Ogsbury (1892-1971).
San Francisco Chronicle April 9, 1919
Belleau Wood Hero Arrives: Has War Cross
Capt. L.W. Whiting Was Twice Wounded; Named for U.S. Honor Award
With the salutations of admiring French officers still a vivid memory and the French Cross of War, Captain Louis W. Whiting, of the old 2d Engineers, who left for France in September 1917, reached the Letterman Hospital yesterday to spend the final days of his association in the Army before returning to civil life. Three gold service stripes adorn one sleeve and two wound stripes the other, testifying that the Captain has seen hard service.
For being the first American soldier in Belleau Wood and for rallying the uncertain French defenses with the American slogan used so effectively at Verdun: They shall not pass the Americans, either. Captain Whiting has been recommended for the American Distinguished Service Cross.
The 2d Engineers saw their hardest fighting and their first real baptism of fire with the famous Marine Corps contingent, just as the Germans were making their final effort to penetrate to Amiens. At Belleau Wood the Marines, helped by the Engineers, halted the German advance. It was Captain Whiting who, crawling through the German lines alone, disregarding all advice from the French, established the enemy position and fixed the line for the Americans to hold.
We were told to hold it at all costs, said Captain Whiting yesterday, but we had only a scattered line, with one man about every five feet. Just before the attack I went along the line cheering up the men until I came to the Master Engineer. Scared Sergeant? I asked him. No, not scared, but praying like hell, was his response. Not an American wavered during the whole engagement.
Captain Whiting was a civil and mining engineer working from Alaska to South American before the war. As he has nearly recovered from the last attack of gas he was yesterday granted a thirty day furlough during which he will visit a cousin in Ukiah.
Maryland in the World War 1917-1919 Military and Naval Service Records
ORC August 15, 1917 Captain Engineer C, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Belvoir Virginia; American University; 2nd Engineers; 116th Engineers June 9, 1918; 6th Engineers August 29, 1918; Patient at Hospital AEF October 16, 1918; Patient at 1 Embark Hospital; Patient at Walter Reed General Hospital Washington, D.C. February 12, 1919; Patient at Letterman General Hospital San Francisco California March 30, 1919. Honorable discharge August 26, 1919. Overseas September 10, 1917 to February 7, 1919, Toulon-Troyon Sector; Aisne; Chateau-Thierry Sector; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Wounded slightly October 16, 1918.
With Prominent People You Know - The Mining Journal 1/15/1931
The Mt Montgomery Quicksilver Company has blocked out enough ore at Mt Montgomery, Nevada, to run a 25-ton furnace a couple of years, according to Louis W Whiting, President and General Manager. It is 6 to 12 pound quicksilver ore that lends itself readily to reduction. The company planned to install the furnace last summer, but financial arrangements were not completed early enough in the season to allow its construction. The mine is at an altitude of 9,000 feet, and the snow flies early.
Louis W Whiting was born at Washington, DC, 46 years ago. He studied mechanical engineering for three years at the University of Maryland, and civil engineering for two years, at the George Washington University.
In 1905 he was made an inspector in the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River at Washington, followed an instrument man, and chief inspector at the Anacostia River Bridge, also in Washington.
He came to the Western country in 1907, and joined the city engineering department in Seattle, Washington. There, he became associated with the Guggenheim engineers, who, realizing his natural talents and observations, advised him to change his career to mining. As a sideline, he scouted the territory along Southern Oregon, and Northern California, and superintended the operation of a couple of mines.
In 1914 he returned to Seattle as Assistant Engineer of the Port of Seattle, on dock construction.
During the war (WW1), he was wounded, and gassed, in Belleau Woods, and while convalescing, built docks at St Nazaire. He returned to the front with the Sixth Engineers, was again wounded, gassed, and injured by explosives.
These circumstances have made it necessary for him to stay in a dry climate, so he took up mining in Nevada. Besides the Mt Montgomery Quicksilver, he owns several mines, including the controlling interest in the Endowment Mining Company. Several carload shipments have been made from the Endowment, but work was suspended there until the price of silver improves.
Whiting enjoys hunting and fishing, and general out-of-door sports. He is fond of dogs. He has coached some football, and at the outbreak of the war, was signed up with a southern university.
He is a member of several military organizations, and a charter member of the American Legion, and of the Society of American Military Engineers.
The Mines Handbook - 1922
Black Mountain Silver Mining Company - Nevada
Address: WW Whiting, Sec, Box 111, Mina, Nevada
Officers: Louis W Whiting, Pres-Mgr; Dr AE Sparks, VP; WW Whiting Sec-Treas.
Incorp. October 14, 1919; Capitalization $150,000; 1,046,000 shares outstanding.
Property: 7 claims, 110 acres, in Silver Star district, 2 miles North of Marietta, Mineral county, adjoining Nevada Tri-Metallic. The main vein, 5' wide, os a contact fissure in diabase and altered sedimentaries, containing shipping ore said to carry 65 oz silver and 20% lead, with some gold and copper. Developed by tunnel said to expose a 300' ore shoot. Active mid-1922 when lease was taken on the neighboring Endowment mine.
