[2] Waite began cycling in 1892, and by 1895 he was considered one of the best bicycle riders on the West Coast of the United States.
Waite was a traveling salesman for the Honeyman De Hart Hardware company and later moved to Pendelton, Oregon, where he managed the Pendleton Hotel.
Following a bout of influenza in 1905, Waite developed an abscess in the mastoid cell behind his right ear.
After an operation to remove the abscess, he suffered from blindness, deafness, and partial paralysis before dying on May 2, 1905, in Portland, Oregon.
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