Bio of White, Rosewell Newton (b.1809) Wabasha Co., MN
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White, Rosewell Newton, late farmer of Plainview, was born in Westchester
county, New York, January 24, 1809. When fourteen years old he was
apprenticed to a carpenter at New Rochelle, New York. This trade occupied
his life for the next nine years, and served to assist in the development
of a fine artistic talent which he possessed. At the age of twenty-three
he turned his attention to engraving, and without any previous training he
solicited a job at wood engraving from a New York house, which was
reluctantly given him. His work was promptly done and well. It was
approved, and from that time on he found plenty to do in this line. The
New York Bible Concern and Harper Brothers employed him during the eight
years that he continued to reside in the metropolis, and he was esteemed
one of the best wood engravers of his day. In 1839 he established a home
in McHenry county, Illinois, and opened an office in Chicago, where he
obtained work from McCormick, H. P. Murray, and others. Seventeen years he
resided in Illinois, but in the spring of 1856 he caught the western
fever, and also further induced to seek a change by ill health, he came to
Greenwood prairie and pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres on section
11. Here he established his home, and spent the remainder of his life in
agricultural pursuits. He died April 3, 1883, leaving a wife and four
children surviving. Mrs. White was Jane Osborn, the daughter of John
Osborn, of New York city. The children are: Annie (Mrs. Furlong), of Cass
county, Dakota; Jane (Mrs. Griffing), of Boston, Massachusetts; Emelie E.
White, of Crescent City, Florida; and a son, Charles O. White born October
3, 1851.