Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....White, J. M. February 1860 - 
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Author:  Colonel William Parsons 

Page 498, 499

J. M. White
	It is with pleasure that we here present a brief outline of the career 
of the worthy citizen and successful farmer and liveryman whose name appears 
above. While he is "not slothful in busines," but on the contrary one of the 
most thrifty and energetic men in his neighborhood, at the same time he takes 
an active and leading part in the promotion of the commonweal, and when 
summoned by the franchises of his neighbors to offices of trust, he has 
invariably rewarded the confidence reposed in him by faithful and efficient 
service.
	Mr. White was born in Arkansas, his parents being John and Minerva 
(Green) White, natives of Tennessee. He was educated in the public schools and 
at Mountain Home Academy, and when he had received his diploma from the latter 
institution he engaged in school teaching. He was thus engaged for two years, 
then farmed for two years, after which he came to Walla Walla and spent there 
the summer of 1884. Moving then to Lexington, he took a homestead three miles 
north of that point, and upon this his original home in the state he has 
resided continuously since, devoting his time and energy assiduously to the 
task of improving his farm and building for himself and family a comfortable 
home.  He is now the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of land upon which 
he raises wheat principally, though he also raises and handles a considerable 
number of horses.  Mr. White is, moreover, the owner of the livery and feed 
stable at Lexington, where his residence is. He has a fine threshing outfit, 
steam power, and for the past twelve years has been utilizing the same every 
harvest season.  
	In the last campaign our subject was the nominee of his party, the 
Democratic, for the office of assessor, but was defeated by seventeen votes. 
However, he received from the people a fitting tribute of their esteem and 
confidence, for he ran about one hundred and forty votes ahead of his ticket. 
In former years he has served as constable and justice of the peace, 
discharging his duties with fairness, faithfulness and magnanimity. His 
interest in the cause of education found expression in the zeal with which he 
worked for the procuring of the fine new schoolhouse in Lexington.
	In Arkansas, on October 13, 1880, our subject married Miss Sarah, 
daughter of Rufus and Elizabeth Nichols, natives of Mississippi, and they have 
four children, Iona E., Claude J., Roena J. and Cornelius.


Additional Comments:
 An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 


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