Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....White, James July 18, 1825 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 9, 2006, 9:42 am Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Wayne Township p. 806 James White, second son of Joseph and Alice (Clawson) White, was born July 18, 1825, in Wayne County, Ind. He was reared to pioneer life, receiving only a limited education. He was married in 1856, to Anna T., daughter of John and Alice (League) Steddom, of Warren County, Ohio. She is a descendant of the Furnas family, of Standing Stone, Cumberland Co., England. Her parents were pioneer settlers of Warren County, Ohio, and her father was one of the wealthiest men in that county. They had five sons and six daughters, all living except one. Mrs. White is the youngest child and was born Feb. 28, 1829. Her parents are deceased. To Mr. White and wife have been born six children---Sarah Josephine, Charles S., Ellen S., Joseph Selden, Albert F. (deceased), and Hettie P. The three eldest children were educated at Earlham College. Mr. and Mrs. White are members of the Society of Orthodox Friends, and in politics Mr. White is a Republican. He has followed agricultural pursuits through life, being at present engaged in farming, stock-raising and horticulture. He takes great interest in raising fine stock, and is one of the leading horticulturists of Wayne Township. He was for several years engaged in the dairy business near Richmond, under the name of Pyle and White, Greenway Dairy. Our subject's father was born in Kentucky, in 1800, where his father died and he came with his mother to Wayne County, Ind., in 1808, where she entered a tract of land near the present village of Middleboro, and died at the age of eighty-one years. Joseph White experienced all the phases of pioneer life and in 1821 was married to Alice Clawson, who was born in North Carolina in 1799, and died at the age of seventy-five years. Joseph White died when sixty-eight years old. They belonged to the Society of Friends. Of their ten children, six sons and two daughters survive. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/white41gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb