Politically he gave his support to the republican party and although not a seeker for office, he came very nearly being nominated for governor by his party at the state convention held in Lincoln September 23, 1875. He was an interesting and forcible public speaker and for many years a leader in the state. In the early days of the gold excitement in Colorado he visited the Rocky Mountains and while waiting for spring to appear at the mouth of Cherry creek assisted in founding the city of Denver. Mr. Stocking was indeed a true type of the frontiersmen who paved the way for the settlement of the western country. Our subject's paternal grandfather, Thomas White, was also a man of unusual sagacity. He was a partner of John Deere in the manufacture of plows but severed his connection with Mr. Deere and removed to Muscatine, Iowa.
Edward T. White, the father of our subject, enlisted at Muscatine in 1862 in Company G, Thirty-fifth Iowa Volunteers, and was one of the valiant soldiers of the Civil war. He was severely wounded at the battle of Middleton, Tennessee, and in January, 1864, was taken prisoner by the Confederates and confined in the Cahaba (Ala.) and Andersonville military prisons. He received his honorable discharge from service August 19, 1865, and went to Saunders county, Nebraska, where he taught school for several years. Subsequently he located upon government land in Butler county, Nebraska, being one of the old settlers in that section. In 1880 he removed to Portland, Oregon, where he has since resided. His wife died in Portland in 1908.
Ernest Edward White acquired his preliminary education in the common schools of Nebraska and also attended the Plainview Normal school at Plainview, Nebraska, and Elliott's Commercial College of Burlington, Iowa. After leaving school he accepted a position in a bank at Plainview, serving for four years when he took up the study of medicine. He began under Dr. F. H. Nye, of Plainview, and in 1893 entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa. He transferred his allegiance in the fall of 1894 to Drake University, graduating from the medical department of that institution in 1896 with the degree 0f M. D. Immediately after leaving college he began practice at Marysville, Marion county, Iowa, where he continued for three years, and then in 1899 removed to Pleasant Plain, Jefferson county, Iowa, where he gained a liberal patronage. In 1904 he located at Huxley and has since built up a practice which extends over a wide territory in this part of the state. Professionally he is identified with the Story County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is in high favor with his brother practitioners as well as with all who have had reason to make use of his professional services.
On the 14th of October, 1896, Dr. White was united in marriage at Plainview, Nebraska, to Miss Minnie Stafford, and one child, Gertrude S., has blessed this union. Politically the Doctor is allied with the republican party and although he has not sought public office, he has served most ac-