Biographical Sketch of John White, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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John White was born in Camden County, Mo., in 1857, and is an enter-
prising citizen of his native county.  His father, Thomas White, was a
farmer by occupation, and was born in Indiana in 1834; he drove a
government team during the late war, and he married a Miss Medley.  Of
their children four are living, viz.: John, Riley H., Caroline (now 
Mrs. McCamish) and Luroney Carlisle.  His second marriage, to Miss 
Sarah Fisher, resulted in the birth of two children: Robert and James 
T.  Mrs. White had three children by a former husband: Joseph, Fanny
and Samuel Fisher.  The paternal grandfather of our subject was Moses
White, who was born in New Jersey, from which state he moved to Illi-
nois, thence to Indiana, and in 1840 to Camden County, Mo.  He was a
farmer, and died in 1868.  John White was reared to the pursuit of
farming in Camden County, and was deprived of the privileges of an
education even in the common schools, for which deficiency he made up 
to a large extent by studying alone.  He worked at farming until 1882,
and, having saved $100, he invested that amount in a stock of groceries
which he opened at Olive City, Camden County; after one month he moved
to Osage Iron Works, where he engaged in more general merchandising, in
partnership with J. T. Washburn, and the firm has been remarkably 
successful.  They carry a complete stock of general merchandise, own
their store building and residence, as well as 278 acres of land in
Camden county and 320 acres in Morgan county.  February 5, 1888 Mr.
White married Miss Jennie Leighty, who was born in Johnson county, Mo.,
in 1869, and is a daughter of Peter and Ellen Leighty, natives of
Pennsylvania.  Mr. and Mrs. White's only child, Ellsworth Oron, who was
born October 26, 1888, died January 26, 1889.  Mr. White has been
postmaster of the Osage Iron Works for the past five years, and has
filled the office with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of
the community.  He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the
Masonic fraternity, as well as the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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