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Soldier in the American Revolution.
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Sargent and Commander during the French and Indian War.
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Newspaper business 67 years; Chicago correspondent for Cleveland Daily Leader, 1860; city editor Burlington Hawk-Eye, 1869, managing editor, editor and publisher, 1885-1917, now editor. Postmaster of Burlington, 1882-86 and 1898-1910. Chairman of the Board Merchants National Bank (see Who's Who in America). Sumer place: Tama Township, Ia. Residence: 114 N. Woodlawn Avenue, Burlington, Iowa.
From Des Moines
County History vol 2. John L Waite began his education in the public schools of Ravenna and afterward attended a private academy and a commercial school in Chicago. He made his initial step in the business world in connection with telegraphy, serving as operator at Lebanon and Cleveland, Ohio; in Chicago, Illinois, and in Burlington, Iowa, advancing in that connection until he was made superintendent of the Burlington & Missouri River telegraph line in 1863. In 1869, he became connected with newspaper publication as city editor and market reporter on the Hawk-Eye, then owned and published by that firm of Edwards & Beardsley. He afterward devoted three years to the development of the A.T. Hay electrical and metallurgical discoveries and inventions, but in 1874 again entered upon active connection with the Hawk-Eye as associate editor under Frank Hatton, who had purchased the paper. Mr. Waite became managing editor as the successor of Robert J. Burdette, who in 1876 resigned to enter the lecture field. Mr. Waite continued in that connection until 1882, when he resigned, having been appointed postmaster of Burlington by President Arthur.
Came to Burlington in 1862. When seventeen years old, he took up telegraphy as a temporary employment, serving at Lebanon and Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Ill; and Burlington, Iowa, including the superintendency of the Burlington&Missouri River telegraph line, 1863-64. Retiring in 1869,he engaged in his favorite employment, newspaper work, beginning on the Burlington Hawkeye.
"JOHN L. WAITE, journalist, was born in Ravenna, Ohio, August 29, 1840. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and attended business college at Chicago. For twelve years he was a telegraph operator; and later was one of the projectors of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad telegraph line which he helped to construct, and of which he became superintendent. In 1869 he became identified with the Burlington Hawkeye, first as city editor and in 1874 became associate editor. In 1877 he was promoted to managing editor and in 1881 he was appointed postmaster of Burlington. At the close of his term he became editor in chief and general manager of the Hawkeye which, under his direction, has wielded wide influence among the Republican journals of Iowa. In 1898 Mr. Wade was again appointed postmaster of Burlington retaining the management of the Hawkeye."--1903, History of Iowa Vol IV
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Now (1888) living in Portland, Michigan.
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Date from her gravestone.
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The original Waytes were found in England, immediately after the Norman Conquest, only among retainers of the king, princes and great barons; and among their other functions was that of music and minstrelsy. The name appears frequently in the British records. In AD 1075, William the Conqueror gave the earldom, city and castle of Norwich, in England to 'Ralf de Waiet', who married Emma, sister of Roger, Earl of Hereford, cousin of the Conquerer. The earliest record found, and the source from whence all by the same name seem to trace their origin, was Ralf de Waiet. There is no question among genealogical gleaners but that Ricardus Le Wayte, of County Warwick, who was in 1315 escheator of counties Berkshire, Wilts, Oxford, Bedford and Bucks, was a lineal descendant of Ralf. Thereafter the name was written Wayte almost exclusively until others of the name came to New England, when that was discarded and Wait, or Waite, was used instead. The Wayte families were pretty well distributed over the central portion of Southern England, extending thence to Northern Wales, and from there some of them migrated to New England. Among these were three brothers: Richard, the eldest, born in 1596; Gamaliel, in 1598; and Thomas in 1601. They were cousins of Thomas Wayte, who was a member of parliament, and one of the judges who signed the warrant in 1649 for the execution of Charles the First. The late Morrison Remick Waite, chief justice of the United States, traced his lineage to Thomas Wayte, the Regicide. Colonel John Wait, the fifth justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island, was a gret-grandson of Thomas. The three brothers arrived in Boston in 1634. Richard, who became marshal of the colony, and Gamaliel remained in Boston. Thomas settled in Rhode Island. The third sone of th latter was Sergeant Benjamin Wait (1644-1704), a soldier...