Tipton-Switzerland County IN Archives Biographies.....White, Garret 1838 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   GARRET WHITE, farmer and minister, was born in Switzerland County, Ind.,
December 1, 1838, and is a son of John and Mary (Kelso) White, both natives of
Switzerland County, and parents of seventeen children. Grandfather White settled
in Switzerland County in 1801, and there erected the first saw mill. John and
his faithful wife are yet living on the farm, where they have resided more than
sixty years. Mr. White is a stanch supporter of Democratic principles. Garret
White received a limited education from the common schools, and at the age of
eighteen began working for himself on the home farm. In 1860, he, with his
family, located on Indian Prairie, where he farmed for eleven years, and in 1871
located near Windfall, and the following spring moved to the sixty-acre farm on
which he now lives; this land is well improved, with good frame buildings. Mr.
White laid the first tile ditch in the township, and has always been willing to
assist in every public improvement. He was married, August 15, 1860, to Miss
Mahala Mott, of Switzerland County, Ind.; born January 27, 1842. This union has
been blessed with one son-Omer, born December 31, 1861. Mr. White is a
Republican in principle, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Protestant
Church. Mr. White was licensed to preach in 1861, and ordained in 1863. From
1873 to 1880, he was an active minister, traveling on a circuit, but for the
last three years has been doing local service.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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