Isaac White

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Date: 11/8/2022 at 22:15:04

Isaac White

Isaac White was born in Gallia Co., Ohio, July 18, 1821, where he grew to manhood, and received a common school education. He is a son of Alfred and Mary (Perry)White natives of New York Stat, where they were married. They moved to Ohio in an early day, and settled in Gallia county, where the mother died in 1866, aged about eighty years. The father went to the Pacific Coast in 1851, and died in Oregon in 1854, age seventy-four years, and, it is said, was the first white man buried in that State. They raised a family of ten children, the subject of this sketch being the ninth. Isaac White has always followed farming. He was married in Ross Co., Ohio, April 8, 1843, to Barbara M. Culley, born in Rockingham Co., Va., Oct. 11, 1825. Her parents moved to Ohio when she was about three years of age, where she was married, December, 1846. he moved with his family to Jones Co., Iowa where he engaged in farming until the outbreak of the Rebellion, when he enlisted, Aug. 16, 1861, in Company D., 9th Iowa Volunteers. He served until July 3, 1862, when owing to general disability he was discharged from the service. He re-enlisted, Feb. 28, 1864, in the same company and regiment, serving until the close of the war. He took part in the battle of Pea Ridge, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and was at the grand review at Washington. He was discharged at Clinton, Iowa, after which he returned to his home in Jones county, where he lived until the fall of 1868, when he sold out, and lived one year in Cerro Gordo county, when he came to Worth county and settled in Fertile township, on section 33 where he still resides. His farm contains 160 acres. Mr. White is a staunch republican, and has held local office. Mr. and Mrs. White have had seven children, five now living - Nancy, Almira, Jackson, Edith, Elmer. Mr. White engaged carrying the mail from Fertile to Mason City, July 1, 1883, having a contract from the government for four years. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.754