Spurgeon Corbin White (1865-1942) and his brother William J. White (ca. 1870-) published and edited the amateur monthly The Youth's Budget from Lawrence, Kansas, November 1883 to June 1884, and from Englewood, a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, July 1884 to at least August 1885. The move to Chicago was apparently due to their father Baptist minister Henry H. White becoming minister of the Olivet Baptist Church, which had one of the largest African American congregations in the United States.
The Youth's Budget was an eight-page monthly that featured pieces by prominent amateur writers including Edith Dowe Miniter (1867-1934), as well as ongoing columns on natural history by Campbell County, Virginia amateur J.O. Babcock, and a Sunday School lesson by the editors' father Rev. Henry H. White (1836-1912). Spurgeon C. White wrote various pieces including stories and poetry. Although most of the extant issues were printed either by the White Brothers, the August 1884 issue was printed by white Flushing, Michigan amateur journalist Robert M. Rulison (1869-1953). Spurgeon C. White became a professional printer and minister working in Chicago. Less is known about his younger brother William; federal census records seem to indicate that William White spent his adulthood in Lawrence, Kansas working as a railroad laborer.