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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 579-580]

    DAVID W. WHITE was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, August
    9, 1838, and is a son of DAVID and MARY (ROSS) WHITE, natives of
    Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively.  He was reared in Jefferson
    County, Ohio, from his seventh year, at which time his parents
    removed from Pennsylvania.  His early life was spent in attending
    the public schools, and in assisting his father on the farm, where
    he remained until 1862.  In October of that year he enlisted in
    defense of his country, entering the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volun-
    teer Cavalry, Company H.  In 1864 he was commissioned Quartermaster-
    Sergeant; he was taken prisoner at New Market, Virginia, by MOSBY'S
    guerrillas, but was almost immediately paroled.  He participated in
    a number of battles and experienced many of the hardships and
    privations of a soldier's life.  After the close of the war he re-
    turned to his home in Ohio, where he spent one year.  In June, 1866,
    he came to Iowa, and settled in Washington County, spending three
    years there engaged in farming.  In 1869 he came to Cherokee County
    and located on a farm in Rock Township; there he resided four years
    and then went back to Washington County, remaining one year.  He then
    made a trip to the home of his childhood, and did not return to Iowa
    for four years; at the end of this period he came back to the farm in
    Rock Township, on which he lived until 1887.  When he first settled
    on the farm in Rock Township there were no improvements whatever; he
    planted a grove of five acres, and placed the land under good culti-
    vation; there are 200 acres in the place, which under Mr. WHITE'S
    management have been developed into a fine farming tract.  In the
    fall of 1887 he purchased his present home in the town of Cherokee,
    on the corner of Second and Willow streets, where he has since re-
    sided.  Mr. WHITE is identified with the Republican party, and is
    a stanch adherent to its principles.  He is a lover of law and order
    and an advocate of any measure tending to advance the standing of
    the community.  He was married February 15, 1872, to Miss ANNA
    ACHISON, a daughter of JAMES E. and MARY ACHISON, and a native of
    Morgan County, Ohio.  She lived only four years after her marriage,
    her death occurring June 5, 1876.  Two children were born of this
    union: WILLIAM ROSS (deceased) and MARY E.  Mr. WHITE was a second
    time united in marriage, to Mrs MARY E. BURRIS, a daughter of JOSEPH
    and WEALTHY RUGGLES.  She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March
    19, 1843.  By her first marriage Mrs. WHITE has two children living:
    CLARENCE and HERBERT.  Mr. and Mrs. WHITE are worthy members of the
    Presbyterian Church of Cherokee.

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