JAMES WHITE

WHITE

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 19:22:00

JAMES WHITE, a well-to-do farmer of section 35, Nodaway township, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, near Zanesville, May 17, 1849, a son of Alfred White, a favorably-known pioneer of that county who was born in Pennsylvania, of English ancestry. Mr. Alfred White was married in Ohio to Eliza Devoll, who died when the son, our subject, was a lad of fifteen years old. Afterward he was again married. He improved a farm of 360 acres, in Nodaway township, and a few years before his death moved to Brooks, where he died.

Mr. James White, the subject of this sketch, was reared on a farm in Nodaway township, obtaining his schooling in the pioneer log- schoolhouse. After his marriage he left his parental home and worked rented land three years; then, in 1859, purchased ninety acres of his present farm of Milton Ritchie, who had improved the place. Since then he has added by further purchases, until he now owns 250 acres. His home farm contains 130 acres, and there are 120 acres in two lots on section 36. Twenty acres are timber land. His home place is one of the finest farms in Adams county. A good stream of water runs through the farm. The residence, barn and other buildings and appurtenances all show the prosperity and good judgment of the owner. In his political views he has always been a Democrat, and as a citizen he is one of the solid men of Adams county. Mrs. White belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

In April, 1871, in this county, Mr. White married Miss Agnes, a daughter of George Bowers, of Nodaway township. Of their eight children four died in infancy. The living are: Hattie, Etta, Felbert and Ora.