BIO:  A. F. WHITE, Freedom Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 416

A. F. WHITE, associate judge, P.O. Fairfield, was born on the farm where he now 
resides, in Freedom Township, this county, February 8, 1846, and is a son of 
Andrew and Joanna (Ross) White, natives of Adams and Westmoreland Counties, 
respectively.  The father, a farmer, who died in 1862, was of English descent.  
The mother was of Scotch origin.  They had a family of four children, of whom A. 
F. is the youngest.  Our subject was educated in the country school, and also 
attended, for one term, the preparatory department of the Pennsylvania College 
at Gettysburg, and from youth up has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and 
now owns 195 acres of land.  In 1870 he was united in marriage with Mary M., 
daughter of Hon. James H. Marshall.  The Marshall family is of Scotch descent.  
Mrs. White’s father served two terms in the Legislature, and was at one time 
county commissioner.  To Mr. and Mrs. White the following named children were 
born:  Mary (deceased), Jennie, James, Charles.  Our subject and wife are 
members of the Presbyterian Church.  He has held the offices of assessor and 
justice of the peace, serving the latter office for seven years.  In 1883 he was 
appointed associate judge of Adams County, was elected in 1884, and holds the 
office at present.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F.; has passed all the 
chairs in his lodge, and has been a member of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.  
His brother, William R., was a member of the Legislature, and now resides in 
Liberty Township, this county.  His sister, Martha J., married William T. Reid, 
of Hamiltonban Township.  His other brother, J. Harvey, was educated at 
Gettysburg and Yale Colleges, graduating from the latter; read law with Robert 
McCreary; and was admitted to the bar at Gettysburg about 1864.  He practiced a 
few years, and then went to Pittsburgh about 1867-68, and has there been very 
successful.  He served as adjutant of the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Regiment 
of Pennsylvania Infantry.