MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO - BIO: WHITE, Rev. Ethan E. (published 1928)
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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company 1928 - Volume 5, page 62-63

REV. ETHAN E. WHITE is a Baptist minister whose work has made him very
favorably known in the West Virginia Convention, and he is the present
pastor of the Mount Hope Baptist Temple. Rev. Mr. White is a singularly
gifted minister, earnest, forceful, and has had unusual success in building
up churches.
The church at Mount Hope of which he is pastor was organized at Macdonald
in 1897 with eighteen charter members, and after about three years the
church was moved to Mount Hope.
Rev. Ethan E. White was born near Zanesville, Ohio, August 21, 1875, and is
of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The Whites moved from Washington County,
Pennsylvania, to Southern Ohio, and were pioneers of Zanesville. Lanson
White was born and reared near Zanesville, became a farmer and died at the
early age of twenty-four, in 1877, being buried in the family cemetery near
Zanesville. Lanson White's mother was a granddaughter of Robert McIntyre,
one of the first settlers in the Wellsburg community in the Northern
Panhandle of what is now West Virginia. Mary A. Frazier, mother of Rev. Mr.
White, was born and reared in Muskingum County, Ohio, attended school
there, and has always been active in church work. She is now seventy-four
and lives at Shelby, Ohio.
Rev. Ethan E. White attended public schools in Ohio, continued his
education in Ohio Northern University and later in the Moody Bible
Institute of Chicago. On January 2, 1902, he was ordained a Baptist
minister, and for a time had charge of several small churches in
Southeastern Ohio. For four years he was a field worker for the Ohio
Baptist Convention, following which he was pastor of a church at Bethesda,
Ohio, until 1909. His first work in West Virginia was at Sistersville,
where for three years he was pastor of the First Baptist Church, and a new
church was built during his pastorate. After that he was pastor of the
Lorain Street Church in Ironton, Ohio and religious and social work
director of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. at Russell, Kentucky. In 1914 he
located at Weston, West Virginia, and during his pastorate of three and a
half years built a new church. In 1917 he occupied the pulpit of the
Central Baptist Church of Columbus, Ohio, serving two years. Rev. Mr. White
in 1919 was c
alled to Chicago as executive secretary of the Moody Bible Institute Alumni
Association. From 1921 to 1923 he was pastor of the Dudley Avenue Baptist
Church at Parkersburg, West Virginia, and from 1923 to 1925 pastor of the
First Baptist Church at Spencer. During each of the pastorates the church
edifice was remodeled. He then returned to Parkersburg and was engaged in
evangelistic and Bible teaching work until 1926.
Rev. Mr. White accepted the call to the pastorate of the Baptist Church at
Mount Hope in July, 1926. His successful experience as a builder has been
of great advantage to the Mount Hope congregation. In September, 1923, a
drive for funds for building a new church was started and about $60,000 was
subscribed. However, as a result of the dullness in the coal industry it
was decided not to call upon the full amount from the subscribers, and the
building program was deferred until a more favorable situation. Since Mr.
White became pastor the building work has been carried out and on July 1,
1927, the beautiful Mount Hope Baptist Temple was completed at a cost of
about $75,000. It is one of the most attractive church edifices in this
part of the state.
Rev. Mr. White at one time was a member of the State Board of the West
Virginia Baptist Convention. He is member of Macdonald Lodge No. 103, A.F.
and A. M., the Mount Hope Business Men's Club, and belonged to the rotary
Club while living at Spencer. He is a Republican.
He married in Muskingum County, Ohio, October 21, 1896, Miss Dolly D.
Dickson, who was reared and educated in Muskingum County, daughter of
William E. and Eliza (Revenaugh) Dickson, substantial farming people of
that section. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. White have three children. The daughter
Mary Mildred, who completed her high school education at Weston, is the
wife of J. French Williams, a salesman for the George I. Harmell Company of
Charleston, West Virginia, and they have three children, named James
Frederick, Theodore White and Joseph Edward. Grace Dickson White, the
second child, graduated from the North High School at Columbus, Ohio, took
the Bible music course in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, and is now
a student in Eastern University at Philadelphia. The son, William Walden
White, graduated from the Mount Hope High School in 1927 and is a member of
the class of 1931 in Broaddus College at Philippi, West Virginia.


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