Homer A. White Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: WHITE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1194

  HOMER A. WHITE, funeral director and embalmer, of Derry, N. H.,
successor to Thomas Martin, was born in Marlboro, .Cheshire county, N. 
H., July 27, 1864, a son of Asa M. and Mary (Knight) White. He was 
reared and educated in Keene, N. H., where he attended and was 
graduated from the high school. He then began industrial life with the 
firm of Woodbury & Howard, funeral directors, of Keene, N. H., 
remaining with them for three years. Subsequent to this he engaged with 
the Stephen Merritt Company of New York, in the same line of business, 
and continued in their employ for seven years. He was then with the W. 
T. Lockhart Company of Boston between six and seven years, afterwards 
spending five years with W. A. Frink of Somerville, Mass., and two 
years with F. S. Goward of Brockton, Mass. He then came to Derry and, 
as above noted, succeeded to the business of C. H. Martin as funeral 
director and embalmer. An up-to-date bussiness man, he is one of the 
leading representatives of his profession in this section, being a 
graduate of the Barnes School of Anatomy of Chicago, Ill. His entire 
life since leaving school has been devoted to this line of work, in 
which he is is thoroughly proficient. He is a Knight Templar Mason and 
belongs also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Religiously he is 
affiated with the Methodist Church. Mr. White was married in
1887 to Miss Olive Hamilton of New Orleans. He and his wife are the
parents of two children now living, namely: Maud, who married Arthur
H. Roberts and resides in Trenton, N. J., and Homer A. Jr., who is 
assisting his father in the undertaking business. 

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