On the 18th of June, 1890, Mr. White was united in marriage to Miss Ida May Chalfant, who was born in McLean county, Illinois, May 2, 1865. She is the daughter of William and Margaret (Duff) Chalfant, the father being a well known farmer of the county. Mr. White is a member of the Story County Bar Association, and also of Lodge No. 99, A. F. & A. M., the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. Ever since arriving at manhood he has given his support to the republican party, believing that its principles are best adapted to promote the interests of the country. He has been an earnest supporter of the party in Story county and served in the thirty-second and thirty-third general assemblies of Iowa, showing an ability which greatly pleased his constituents. He is now fairly started on his professional career, and it, requires no prophet to foretell that his efforts will be exercised in behalf of the political, intellectual and moral advancement of the region with which he has for many years been intimately identified.
STEPHEN L. LOUGHRAN.
Stephen L. Loughran is one of the well known business men of Ames, being proprietor of the Loughran Machine company, and an old resident of Story county. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on the 27th of August, 1866, a son of Edmund and Sarah A. (Bryer) Loughran, also residents of Ames. The father was born in Armagh, County Armagh, Ireland, on the 30th of June, 1832, and was educated in the schools of Armagh, where he lived until he had reached his fifteenth year, when he emigrated to the United States. Upon his arrival here he went to Hampshire county, West Virginia, but after remaining there for a few months he removed to Wheeling, that state, and engaged in the machinery business there until 1855, at which time he went to New York city and after a year's residence in the metropolis he accepted a position in the employ of Cox, Richardson & Boynton, stove and furnace manufacturers, in Westchester county, New York. He did not long retain that position but in 1857 started westward, Des Moines, Iowa, being his destination, and there he engaged in the manufacturing business. On the 2d of January, 1864, he responded to the call of the nation's chief and enlisted in the First Iowa Battery. The most important battle in which he participated was that of Atlanta on the 22d of July, 1864, and he was also on the field at Resaca, Georgia. On the 5th of July, 1865, he was mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, and returned to Des Moines, where he engaged in business until 1874. In the latter year he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jasper county, Iowa, upon which he settled, and for ten years followed the occupation of farming. At the end of that period he came to Ames and bought out the business of Shields & Cook, who handled farm implements, continuing in this for eighteen years. In 1902 he withdrew from active business and is now living retired in Ames.