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History of Story County, Iowa Vol 2 by William O. Payne, 1911

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ceptably as a member of the school board, being one of the active factors in the erection of the new school building. In every relation of life he has attempted to perform his duty, and as he is a man of genial manner and generous disposition, he has gained many friends who have the most implicit confidence in his integrity and ability.


GEORGE CLINTON White.

George C. White, recently established in the practice of law at Nevada, Iowa, is a native of Illinois, born in McLean county, December 6, 1865. He comes of English lineage on the paternal side, the progenitors of the family in America having arrived on the western shores of the Atlantic during the colonial period. His great grandfather, Nathaniel White, served in the Revolutionary war from New York. The father of our subject, William H. White, was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, in 1835 and removed with his parents to Illinois in 1850. He was one of the successful farmers of that state, where he died in 1905, at the age of seventy years. Politically he gave his support to the republican party. The mother of our subject, who was Martha Ann Donovan before her marriage, was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1840, and survived her husband five years, passing away in July, 1910. She removed with her parents to Washington county, Iowa, in 1849. Our subject has one sister, Anna, who was born in McLean county, Illinois, in 1869, and is now the wife of E. W. Sutherland, a lawyer of Bloomington, Illinois.

George C. White was reared under the favoring influences of a peaceable home, and as he grew up he assisted his father to the extent of his strength and ability in the work of the fields. He received his preliminary education in the district schools, advancing sufficiently to secure a certificate as a school teacher. He taught for two years and for a time was a student at the normal school at Normal, Illinois, but agricultural pursuits held out greater inducements than the schoolroom, and accordingly, in 1893, he began farming on land of his own in Story county, continuing for twelve years. In 1905 he took charge of the Farmers Elevator at Nevada, which he conducted most successfully for one year. Having decided to adopt a professional career, he matriculated at Drake University in 1907 and was graduated from the law department with a degree of LL.B. in 1909. Desiring to proceed still further with his studies, he entered the law department of Yale University and was graduated from that celebrated institution with a degree of LL.M., in 1910. Soon after leaving the university he began practice in Nevada and as he has many friends in Story county and his ability in practical lines of business has been thoroughly demonstrated, there is little doubt as to his success in his chosen profession.

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