William Allen White Lifeline
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| William Allen White's desk, 1938 |
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| William
Allen White with Theodore Roosevelt |
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| Mary White, age 16 |
| 1868 | Born in Emporia Kansas, February 10 |
| 1882 | White's father died |
| 1884 | Entered the College of Emporia in Emporia, Kansas |
| 1886 | Entered the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas |
| 1892 | Became an editorial writer for the Kansas City Star |
| 1893 | Married Sallie Lindsay of Kansas City. Wrote Rhymes of Two Friends |
| 1895 | Purchased The Emporia Gazette for $3,000 |
| 1896 |
Became a nationally known writer with his editorial What's the Matter With Kansas? and The Real Issue and Other Stories |
| 1899 | Published The Court of Boyville |
| 1900 | Son William Lindsay White born |
| 1901 | Published Stratagems and Spoils |
| 1904 | Daughter Mary White born |
| 1906 | Published In Our Town and Emporia and New York |
| 1909 | Published A Certain Rich Man |
| 1910 |
Published The Old Order Changeth and A Theory of Spiritual Progress |
| 1912 | Went against party lines and supported his good friend Theodore Roosevelt for president |
| 1916 | Published God's Puppets |
| 1918 | Published In the Heart of a Fool and The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me |
| 1919 | Chosen by President Wilson as a special envoy to Russia |
| 1921 | Daughter Mary died. Wrote his famous editorial Mary White |
| 1923 | Won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial To an Anxious Friend |
| 1924 | Published Woodrow Wilson the Man, the Times, and His Task and Politics, the Citizens Business |
| 1925 | Published Calvin Coolidge, the Man Who is President and Same Cycles of Cathay |
| 1926 | Published Boys Then and Now |
| 1928 | Published Masks in a Pageant |
| 1936 | Published What's It All About |
| 1938 | Published A Puritan in Babylon |
| 1939 | Published The Changing West |
| 1940 | Published Defense for America |
| 1944 | Died on January 29 |
| 1946 | Published Autobiography of William Allen White, edited by William L. White |