Bio: Stephen A. White, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Stephen A. White, has passed a career of usefulness, and being an industrious 
and progressive farmer, strictly honorable in every respect, he commands the 
esteem of all.  He first saw the light of day in Montgomery County, Ala., 
January 4, 1850, being born to William M. and Martha (Tubervill) White, who 
were born, reared and married in Georgia, moving from that State to Alabama 
at an early day where Mr. White farmed for a number of years.  In the fall of 
1869 they came to Louisiana, and after spending about one year in Bienville 
Parish, they took up their abode in this parish on a farm on which Mr. White 
spent the rest of his days, dying in 1889.  His widow survives him and is an 
active lady of sixty years.  Stephen A. White was nineteen years of age before 
leaving the State of Alabama, but remained with his father until twenty-one years 
of age when he commenced farming for himself, that being an occupation with which 
he was thoroughly familiar.  He purchased land and began opening a farm in this 
ward, but at the end of four years purchased the property on which he is now 
residing, which comprises 800 acres of fine land, all in one body, with about 
400 acres open and 300 under cultivation.  He has a substantial and comfortable 
residence, also a new mill and cotton-gin, and although he commenced making his 
won way in the world with little means and not much education, he has been 
phenomenally successful, and by contact with the world and much reading at odd 
times, he is one of the most intelligent men of this section, his ideas on all 
matters of importance being shrewd and sound.  He raises from fifty to seventy-five 
bales of cotton annually, and his plantation yields abundantly of other Southern 
products.  He was married here in December, 1874, to Miss Mary A. Knox, a Louisianian, 
born and reared in Claiborne Parish, and a daughter of J. A. P. Knox.  Her union 
with Mr. White has resulted in the birth of three children: Keeny, Maud and Ruth.  
Mr. White and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is 
steward, and he is a member of the Farmers' Alliance and is treasurer of his local lodge. 

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