Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....White, Oscar W.
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Joe Patterson, Patricia Bastik & Susan Walters Dec 2009

Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Newtown Township


   OSCAR W. WHITE produce commission merchant, Philadelphia, 
was born at Penn's Park, Bucks county, in 1845, and is a son 
of Ephraim A. and Lydia L. (Watson) White.  His paternal 
grandfather was George White of Penn's Manor.  The subject 
of this sketch spent his early life on the farm, and 
received an academic education.  In 1868 he was married to 
Annie M., daughter of Dr. John Dyer, of Dyerstown, and by 
her has one child, Mary D.   On his mother's side, Mr. White 
is descended from Thomas Watson, who came to the Falls in 
1702, from county Cumberland, England.  He is a republican 
in politics, and a member of the Society of Friends.