Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Elijah B. White Sr.
WHITE, ELIJAH BROCKENBOROUGH SR. (1864–1926), inducted between 1920–1936
Born in Page County, Virginia, to Confederate Cavalry legend Elijah Viers White, E. B. White was a state senator and president of the Peoples National Bank at the time of his death. The graduate of a Baltimore business school, White moved to St. Louis in 1894. There, he founded the E. B. White Grain Company, which quickly became one of the largest grain exporters in the United States. His health failing, he returned to Leesburg, Virginia, in 1903, and purchased Selma Farm, where he bred Percheron horses. White served as president of the Percheron Society of America. For a time, he was also editor of the Leesburg newspaper, The Record. Senator E. B. White was credited with breeding more International Grand Champion Percherons than any other individual. His best-known sires were Dragon and Laet, champions at the ILSE.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 200