B. S. WHITE,
farmer, post-office Sandy Lake, was born February 18, 1824, in Lake
Township. His father, Hiram White, married Polyxenia Stokely,
daughter of Benjamin Stokely. Hiram White was born in` Westmoreland
County, Penn., and came to this county with his parents, John and Nancy
(Dugan) White, and settled at the head of what is known as Wild Cat
Hollow, in Lake Township. Here John White died in 1828, and
Nancy, his wife, died about four years later, in Cool Spring Township,
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lanagan. The children of John and
Nancy were Hiram, Joseph, David, James, Sarah, Anna, Betsey and
Rebecca. Sarah, married Aaron Scroggs; Anna, married John
Scroggs; Betsey, married Valentine Zahniser; Rebecca, married Fergus
Hill. Hiram and Polyxenia White had nine children: David,
died with the typhoid fever; John, married Jane Robb, and had two
children, John, Rebecca; Esther, married Hugh Mitchell; Nancy,
married A. Jackson Carnahan, by whom she had Jerome, Andrew, Tezetta,
Betsey, Cindarilla, Nellie, Hiram, Gustavis A. and Wilmina; Mr.
Carnahan died in 1846, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church;
Rebecca, married Charles Barton, and is a widow at Council
Bluffs, Iowa; Benjamin S., Hiram, Nathaniel and Euclid are dead.
Hiram White, the father of our subject, died in 1841, and his widow
died in 1856. B.S. White was educated in the common schools, and
brought up on a farm. He read medicine with Dr. Hiram White, his
brother, at New London, this county, for two years. His brother
practiced in this county about twenty-seven years, retired, and died at
the home of our subject. Mr. White as married January 16, 1858, to
Catharine Hettenbaugh, of Lawrence County. He settled on his
present farm, consisting of 100 acres, in 1839, and has mostly
developed it from the woods to its excellent condition. He has always
been an ardent Democrat.
History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 1118-1119
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