Estate & Guardianship of White

We have here two applications for letters of guardianship of the person of Wm. C. A. White, a minor. The first application was filed on behalf of Mrs. Ellen Doran, the maternal grandmother of the minor; the second by Wm. F. White, the father of the minor, who was married to the minor’s mother April 13, 1879, separated from her July, 1880, four months after the birth of the child, which occurred April 2, 1880; subsequent to the separation, a divorce was obtained by the mother of the minor on the ground of the father’s desertion of her; child awarded to mother. The mother died May 22, 1884, prior to which time the father married again.

The father of the minor appears to be a respectable young man, engaged in a responsible position for many years, earning for about six years of that time $100 per month, a salary sufficient for the maintenance of his small family in comfort. Between the time of the separation, July, 1880, and October, 1882, and while Mr. White was in possession of abundant means, he contributed nothing to the support of his child, and then (October 9, 1882) only under judicial process and constraint of court. It appears in evidence that, when Mr. White married, he…