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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  ADDISON WHITE, was born at Abingdon, Va., May 1, 1824, and was a son of James
and Eliza (Wilson) White, natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and of Irish and
Scotch-Irish descent, respectively. When a youth James White went to Baltimore,
and was there for a time employed by a wholesale dry goods firm. Later on he
went to Abington, Va., where he engaged in the mercantile business, and was
married to Eliza Wilson, of Pittsylvania County.

  He became largely interested in the production of salt, iron and lead, and at
the time of his death, which occurred in Wythe County, Va., 1838, was reported
to be worth over a million dollars. He took an active part in the war of 1812,
holding the rank of colonel.

  His father, William White, was a farmer near Carlisle, Penn., and spent his
life in that State.

  Addison White grew to manhood in his native village, receiving an academic
education, which he completed at Princeton, N. J., in 1842. In September, 1844,
he was married to Miss Sarah Irvine, a daughter of Col. David Irvine, of
Richmond, Ky. Soon after his marriage he became a resident of Kentucky, and was
elected to the Thirty-second Congress for the Sixth District of that State. At
the close of that Congress, coming into possession of his inheritance, he
removed to Huntsville, Ala., and engaged in planting in Alabama, Mississippi and
Arkansas. He has six children: Alice, wife of Dr. G. C. Greenway; Eliza W., wife
of O. B. Patton; David Irvine, Susan McDowell, Newton K., and Shelby, wife of
Richard W. Walker. Mrs. Sarah Irvine White, is a grand-daughter of the
illustrious Dr. Ephraim McDowell, of Kentucky, and great-grand-daughter of Gov.
Isaac Shelby.

  Her father, Colonel David Irvine, was a son of Capt. William Irvine, of
Madison County. Ky., who, being an early settler, participated in many of the
bloody battles with the Indians, and in one of them known as "Estill's defeat,"
or "the battle of Little Mountain," received wounds from which he ultimately
died. He and another, named Proctor, were the only whites, with one Indian, left
to recount the deeds of that sanguinary fight. Mr. White's family are members of
the Episcopal Church.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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