WHITE, Ared F.
Source: Kingman Star Friday, January 16, 1914
JUDGE ARED F. WHITE, for eighteen years Judge of the 47th judicial circuit and a Republican of considerable influence, died at his home in Rockville last Sunday afternoon in his 71st year. He was born in Rockville and practically all his life was spent there, except the time he spent with C. C. 78th Ind. Vol., and later as corporal of Co. G. 133d Ind. He is survived by a wife and four children—one son and three daughters; also three brothers and one sister. “S”
Source: Indianapolis Star Mon 12 Jan 1914 p 4
Rockville, Ind Jan 11 - Judge Ared F. White, one of the best known jurists in western Indiana, died at his home in this city at 5 o'clock this afternoon after an illness of almost a year's duration. Judge White was born in Rockville May 27, 1843. He was educated at Asbury University Greencastle. During his senior year in the university he read law with John Hanna, John McLaughlin and later Judge Elwood Hunt. Judge White was president of the Rockville school board for 9 years. He was a Republican and in 1880 was a presidential elector from Indiana and cast his ballot for James A. Garfield for President of the United States. He was on the bench from 1886 to 1901. Judge White was married Oct 21, 1869 to Sarah Katherine Strouse. The surviving children and Jacob S., Fannie S. and Nellie D. White of this city and Mrs. Helen M. Mand of Terre Haute. - kbz
Source: Greencastle Herald 13 Jan 1914 p 1
ROCKVILLE, Ind., Jan. 12.—Ared F. White, age seventy, lawyer and former judge, who had been in poor health for a year, died at his home here yesterday afternoon. He had been unconscious for several days. The funeral will he held at the Methodist Church here Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. He was born in Rushville May 27, 1843. He was the second son of Johnson S. and Hannah Jones White, pioneers of Parke county. Following his completion of the common school course in the old Rockville seminary he worked as apprentice to a blacksmith until 1802 when he enlisted in Company C, Seventy-eighth Indiana volunteers. Two weeks after his enlistment, the regiment engaged in battle at Uniontown, Ky., which ended in the capture of the regiment. As a paroled prisoner of war, Mr. White returned home and for a time attended Asbury university, now DePauw, at Greencastle. In 1864 he withdrew from the university to re-enlist in the Union army. He served in the One-hundred-and-thirty-third Indiana volunteers. When discharged he returned to Asbury university, from which he was graduated in 1866. Following his graduation Mr. White read law in an office here, and in 1867 was admitted to the bar of Parke County. Meanwhile he had been appointed examiner of the schools of Parke county and in this capacity did much to bring the schools to a high standard of efficiency. Soon after his admission the bar he was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney and was later elected prosecuting attorney of Parke and Montgomery counties. At college Mr. White won first honors in oratory, displaying a singular talent that in later years made him known as a public speaker throughout western Indiana. In the campaign of 1880 he was a candidate for presidential elector on the Republican ticket. He made a canvass of the state, speaking in many of the counties. He spoke frequently in every county in the Eighth Indiana congressional district, which then included the counties of Parke, Montgomery. Clay, Fountain, Vermillion, Vigo, and Warren. His speeches at this time gained him a statewide reputation as an orator. Nervous prostration that made Mr. White an invalid for six years following his speaking campaign of 1880, at which time he was considered the logical congressional nominee. Elected Judge Without Opposition. In 1886 Mr. White was elected judge of the Forty-seventh judicial circuit court. No one contested his election and he was accordingly the unanimous choice of the voters of Parke and Vermillion counties. He served as judge of this court for eighteen consecutive years, being reelected in 1892 and 1898. Retiring from the bench in 1904, Judge White formed a law partnership with his son. The firm was engaged in many of the important cases in this part of the state. Mr. White married Miss Sarah C. Strouse, of this city, in 1869. The widow is secretary of the national department of the Woman’s Relief Corps. She was president of the Indiana department in 1904. Besides the widow, Mr. White is survived by one son, Jacob S., a member of the legislature two years ago, and three daughters, Mrs. Walter C. Maud, of Terre Haute, and Misses Fannie and Nellie White. - kbz