Bio of White, Robert (b.1824) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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White, Robert, builder, Lake City, is descended from a long line of
Connecticut ancestors, of English origin. His maternal grandfather, Van
Vorns, was banished to Nova Scotia during the revolution for toryism.
James White, the father of this subject was a native of Connecticut. He
married Sarah Van Vorns, of New York, and located in Brooklyn, where
Robert White was born, September 7, 1824. When the latter was five years
old the family moved to Delaware county, and afterwards to Rockaway, Long
Island. His elder brothers were prominent builders in Brooklyn, and he
learned his trade with them, being foreman of their shops several years.
In 1848 he went to Bloomington, Illinois, in 1849 to St. Louis, Missouri,
and returned to New York, to escape the cholera that was raging there. He
visited Lake City in the fall of 1856, and built several residences here
during the following year. In 1858 he went to California, and returned to
New York next year. July 13, 1861, he was married in New Jersey, to Miss
Mary L. Morris, a native of that state. Her parents, Samuel and Rhoda A.
(Van Marter) Morris, were born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, and New
York city respectively. Robert Morris, of revolutionary fame, was an
ancestor of this family. Mr. White permanently located in Lake City in
1863, landing here May 6. Very many of the city's finest buildings are
monuments of his thoroughness and skill. As a citizen Mr. White stands
well in the estimation of his neighbors, as is evidenced by his election
for seven years as a member of the city council. For over thirty years he
was a patron of Horace Greeley's paper, and when the great leader was a
candidate for president he received Mr. White's vote, and the latter has
since adhered in general elections to the party whose ticket bore
Greeley's name. He was formerly a republican. In matters of religion he is
a Freethinker. Four sons are included in his family, resident as below:
Samuel Morris, pursuing a business course at Minneapolis; William Edgar,
mechanic, Plano, Illinois; Robert Melvin, clerk in store at latter point;
Horace Greeley, at home.