Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Whitman, Arthur Hanfield
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- A.H. Whitman
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1870-1950
History
Arthur H. Whitman was a Halifax merchant and businessman born and educated in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. After the Halifax Explosion, when serving as the president of the Halifax Board of Trade, he founded a Community Chest fund that later evolved into United Way Halifax.