Harvey H. White, one of Jackson township's well known and
substantial farmers and
landowners, is a native of Ohio but has been a
resident of Jay county the greater part of
his life. Mr. White was born
in the vicinity of Frankfort, Ohio, June 14, 1858, and is a
son of
George and Martha (Bolden) White, whose last days were spent in Ohio.
George White was born in that state and followed the vocation of shoemaking
the
most of his life. He and his wife were the parents of five children;
Lewis, Ellis, John,
William and the subject of this sketch.
Harvey H. White received his schooling in Ohio and was
married at the age of sixteen,
after which he rented a farm and made his
home in that state for eight years, at the end
of which time he came to
Indiana and located on a farm in Penn township, renting an
"eighty"
there. Four years later he went to Illinois, but a year later returned to
Jay
county and not long afterward went to Fayette, this state, where he
remained for three
years, at the end of which time he returned to Jay
county and located on the farm on
which lie is now living in Jackson
township, a well-kept place of 120 acres, forty acres of
which his wife
inherited and eighty acres of which he bought.
Mr. White has been twice married, his first wife having been
Lucinda Irwin, of Ohio,
and his second wife, Sarah Fridley, who also was
born in Ohio but who came to Jay
county with her parents in 1866, she
then having been six years of age. Mr. White has
six children,
Elizabeth, Della, Elba, Herman, Helen and Martha, the latter of whom is
unmarried and is making her home at Portland. Elizabeth White married Alva
Hinshaw, of the neighboring county of Adams, and has two children, Dale
and Gale.
Delia White married Will Groman and has three children,
Thelma, John and Harvey
A. Elba White married George Bair, of Hartford
City, Ind. [Blackford Co.], and has
one child, a daughter, Sarah. Herman
White married Iva Flauding and has one
child, Reba, and Helen White
married Everett Lewis and has two children, Herman
and Doris.
During the time of America's participation in the World war
Herman White served as
a soldier in the Tank Corps overseas and was
severely gassed during one of the actions
in which he participated at
the front. He went into the service as a member of Company
G, the local
unit of the Indiana National Guard at Portland, which was federalized and
its members apportioned to various departments of the service, and he
was mustered
out as a sergeant.
SOURCE: Milton T. Jay, M.D., History of Jay County Indiana,
Historical Publishing
Co., Indpls. 1922, Vol. II, pp. 375-376.
Transcribed by Eloine Chesnut.