Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....White, Clarence C. 1881 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

CLARENCE C. WHITE.

    Clarence C. White, manager of the United Undertaking Company at Pueblo, was
born at Orchard Grove. Missouri, on the 24th of June, 1881, a son of George L.
and Sally (Cooper) White. The father is a farmer by occupation and after leaving
Missouri removed with his family to Kansas and thence to Colorado, where he and
his wife still make their home.

    Clarence C. White was a young lad when the family became residents of the
Sunflower state and there he pursued a public school education, passing through
consecutive grades to the high school and thus becoming well qualified for
life's practical and responsible duties. When his textbooks were put aside he
turned his attention to the occupation of farming. In fact in the meantime he
had assisted largely in the work of the fields during the periods of vacation
and early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring
for the crops. He devoted himself to farming in Kansas for two years and in 1906
removed from that state to Colorado, where he entered commercial circles,
engaging in the furniture business in Pueblo in connection with Calkins White.
In 1912 he became actively engaged in the undertaking business, organizing the
United Undertaking Company, which was then located at D street and Union avenue,
where it remained for six years. Later they moved to their present location in
the Masonic Temple, at Broadway and Evans avenue. They have a well appointed
chapel with commodious seating accommodation, have complete auto equipment and
follow the most sanitary and scientific methods in their care of the dead. They
employ three men and also have a lady attendant. They are most careful and
progressive in funeral direction and the patronage of the firm has constantly
increased, bringing to them well merited success.

    Mr. White was united in marriage to Miss Ida Paige and to them have been
born three children: Helen, Thelma and Lawrence. Mr. White votes with the
democratic party, of which he has been a stanch champion since attaining adult
age. He is well known in Masonic circles, having taken the degrees of lodge and
council, and he is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
He likewise has membership with the Commerce Club, and the Lions Club, of which
he was the first president, taking deep interest in the organization.


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Extracted from:

HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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