WHITE, John T., Troy, NY., then Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JOHN T. WHITE, JEANNERETTE.--John T. White is a native of Troy, New York, born
in 1842.  He was reared in Cincinnati, Ohio, to which place his parents had
removed when he was seven years of age.  He received his education in the
public schools of Cincinnati, and, early in 1862, entered Harrison College;
but in August of that year he enlisted in Company D, Eighty-third Regiment
Ohio Volunteers.  He served principally in the Gulf Department.  In 1864 he
was commissioned first lieutenant, and was transferred to the Provost Marshall
office and stationed at New Iberia, Louisiana.  Here he remained until he was
mustered out of active service.  During his stay here he was so favorably
impressed with this section of Louisiana that he purchased a plantation and
engaged in sugar planting, in which he still continues.  His plantation, Bay
Side, formerly owned by Col. Frank D. Richardson, consists of two thousand
five hundred acres of land, about nine hundred of which are under cultivation. 
The sugar mill erected before the war has been entirely remodeled from the old
style open kettle to the double mills, with saturation and steam trains.  The
Bay Side and Alice plantations combined, in 1890, erected a refinery fully
equipped for the manufacture of four million pounds of sugar.

Mr. White married, in 1870, Miss Sarah Hull, a native of Pittsfield, Illinois,
and daughter of John Hull, a prominent land owner and banker of Pike county,
Illinois.  They are the parents of two children:  Junius H., born in Illinois
in 1873, now in college in Alabama;  Lizzie, born in 1874, in Louisiana. 
Although he has been several times solicited to do so, Mr. White has never
allowed his name to appear in the role for political honor.  In national
politics he is a Republican.  In 1868 he entered the Masonic and Odd Fellows
fraternities, and has filled various offices of these lodges.  Mr. White is a
member of the Methodist church, and his wife of the Presbyterian.  Mr. White
realizes the advantages of his adopted State, and firmly believes in the
possibility of its future greatness.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 133. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.