WHITE, George

WHITE, PECK, STEENBERG, TODD

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Date: 10/17/2001 at 14:01:51

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OLIVE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

GEORGE E. WHITE, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Calamus; owns 200 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre; son of Jacob and Cynthia (nee Peck) White; born Aug. 3, 1848, in Bristol Co., Mass.; emigrated, with parents, to this county in the spring of
1855, locating upon the farm upon which he is now living. His father, died Feb. 28, 1858; his mother again married a Mr. Orin Steenberg. In March 1967, he went to Marion, Linn Co.; worked with a brother, L. E. White, at carpenter and
joiner's trade, and married there Miss Serena Todd, April 4, 1869; she was born Feb. 14, 1851, in Hancock Co. Ohio. In 1847, he returned to the old homestead, which he now owns; have three children living--Sarah E., born Jan 4, 1870;
Cynthia L., Aug. 20, 1871; Earl G., Aug. 16, 1872. Is a member of Methodist Episcopal Church; Republican.