Steve:
Thanks for those additional "timeline" details.
You can see what I mean with that timeline, though, can't you, when you use it to analyze what some of the things mentioned in that March 13, 1915 material probably mean and/or can't mean since some of that wording is using the past tense on March 13, 1915 and some of the the things with the creation of the course had not yet begun.
To me this is the most interesting part when applied to that timeline:
"The matter has received the careful attention of your Greens Committee, who with the aid of Mr. Seth J. Raynor, and with the active and intelligent cooperation of ou professional, Mr. Robert White, have laid out a course, the nature of which can be seen on the diagrams in the office of the Harmonie Club and which in the opinion of experts should develop into as good a course as could be found in any part of the United States."
To me there are two important potential revelations and meanings there:
1. Robert White had to have already lent active and intelligent cooperation to the routing and design plan of Raynor's by March 13, 1915 because that was all that had been done at that point since construction and greenkeeping had not yet begun.
2. The term "laid out" was used to refer to routing and paper plan designing in some instances and not just actual construction which we have long maintained with other clubs who used that term around that time, despite the objections of others on here as to what the term meant and what it didn't mean back then.
To me it probably meant both to various people back then but the point here is it could only mean one thing at North Shore on March 13, 1915 and not the other because the other hadn't even happened yet and that material describes actions that had already taken place.
Given all that unless something else comes up that is more definitive one way or another wth Raynor or White my suggestion to the club with their architect attribution for the course from 1914-15 might factually be best looking something like this:
Architect----Seth Raynor (with assistance from Robert White).
What do you think of that suggestion Sterverino Shaeffer, Golf Course Architecture Researcher Supreme?