Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....White, Oliver August 21, 1836 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Jackson Township
p. 607

Oliver White, only son of Josiah and Ester (Hiatt) White, was born in Milton, 
Wayne Co., Ind., Aug. 21, 1836. His father died in 1837, after which he lived 
with his uncle, Daniel Johnson till he was eleven years old. He returned to 
Milton and lived with his mother, who again was married in 1845 to Joseph 
Dickinson, till he reached the age of fourteen years, when he removed to 
Richmond, remaining there till 1860. He received a good education and 
graduated from Amherst College, Massachusetts, in the scientific department, 
in 1863, after which he taught school in different parts of this State. In 
1865 he was married to Carrie, daughter of Thomas Cottom, of Winchester, Ind. 
They have four children---Winnifred L., Hester G., Raymond P. and Robert F. 
Mr. White came to Dublin in 1876, where he edited a paper the first year. He 
then embarked in the drug trade, which he continued till 1880, when B. F. 
Maxwell became his partner, under the firm name of White & Maxwell. Mr. White 
is a minister of the Society of Friends. His father, who was a native of North 
Carolina, emigrated to Indiana in an early day, and was engaged at the cabinet 
maker's trade in Milton till death in 1837. He was married in 1835 to Esther 
G. Hiatt, of Wayne County. She was again married in 1845 and is now living in 
Richmond.


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