Biographical Sketch of Dr. W. L. White, Johnson County, Missouri,
Centerview Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Dr. W. L. White, a retired physician and farmer of Johnson county, is a
native of Indiana.  He was born in 1832, a son of Nathan and Rebecca
(Lindley) White, a prominent pioneer family of Indiana, the father, a
native of North Carolina and the mother, a daughter of Samuel Lindley, 
a brother-in-law of Nathaniel Green, Washington's most trusted general
in the Revolutionary War.  Doctor White was reared and educated in
Indiana and spent the greater part of his youth in that state.  In 1862
Dr. W. L. White enlisted in the Civil War and served throughout the 
conflict under General Stewart.  He took an active part in the battles
of Franklin and Nashville and in many other important engagements. 
After three years of faithful service, Doctor White was mustered out
and honorably discharged in September, 1865.  After the war closed, he
returned to his home in Indiana and practiced medicine for several
years.  Dr. W. L. White is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
His health failed and he was obliged to abandon his chosen profession
and to spend his time out of doors.  Accordingly, he purchased more 
than three hundred acres of land in Indiana and engaged in farming and
stock raising for many years.  Later, he traded his place for a stock
of hardware, which in turn he traded for a farm of one hundred sixty
acres of land in Johnson county, Missouri, and in 1881, came West to
make his home on the farm for which he had traded.  Doctor White 
specialized in the raising of Poland China and Berkshire hogs and 
became very successful and prosperous.  For years, he was owner of a
high-bred pacing mare, valued at more than a thousand dollars.  Recent-
ly, the doctor divided his land among his children and he is now spend-
ing the close of his long life of usefulness in comfort and carefree
ease.  In 1865, Dr. W. L. White was united in marriage with Anna 
Parsons, in Indiana.  To this union were born two children.  Within a
few years after her marriage, the mother died and Dr. White remarried,
his second wife being Mary Hall, and to Dr. W. L. and Mary (Hall)
White were born four children, two of whom are now living: Mrs. Minnie
Andrews, Centerville, Missouri; and Lindley N., a well known farmer of
Centerview township.  Dr. White is now eighty-five years of age, but he
is as alert mentally as many men a score of years younger than he.  He
is one of Johnson county's most respected and valued citizens.

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