Hosea White

As printed in 1901

HOSEA WHITE.

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Mr. White was born on the 18th day of June, 1819, in Stanstead, Upper Canada, but belonged to an old New England family and traced his ancestry back to William White, who came to this country in the Mayflower. They were among the early settlers of Vermont. Our subject's father, Hosea White, Sr., was a native of the Green Mountain State and a son of Caleb White.

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At West Point, December 28. 1847, Mr. White was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Green, a native of Washington county, Ohio. Her father, Eli Green, was born in New York in 1797, and in 1803 removed to Ohio with his parents. His father. Duty Green, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, cleared and improved a farm in 'washington county and upon his place planted apple seeds, from which have grown trees which are still bearing. There Eli Green grew to manhood and marrieil Elizabeth Stewart, who was born in Washington county in 1802. He followed the carpenter's and joiner's trade throughout the greater part of his active business life, and was also a boss ship carpenter at Marietta, Ohio, for some years. In 1846 he rein\eil to Lee county, b.nva, where he continued to work at his trade for some time, and then went to Butler, Bates county. Missouri, where Ins death occurred. His first wife had died in Ohio_ when Mrs. Wh'te was a child of three years, and he later married again. His second wife survived him some twenty years and spent her last days with her child-en in Linn county, Iowa, where she died in 1896.

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It was in April, 1849. that Mr. White came to Linn count)' and with a land warrant entered six hundred and forty acres of land east of Springville, which he divided with his brother and brother-in-law, retaining a tract of three hundred and sixty acres, which the family still own. His first home here was a log cabin, in which he lived for six years, while he devoted his attention to the development and cultivation of his farm. Later he erected a good set of farm IniiUlings, planted fruit and forest trees about his place and made it a very attractive and well-improved farm, on which he resided for thirty years. In 1880 he mo\ed on tne farm of one hundred and sixty acres which has since been the home of the family, which he had purchased some fifteen years before at nine dollars an acre. When this tract came into his possession it was principally covered with timber, but it was at length converted into a highly cultivated and ilesirable farm, with good buildings erected thereon. Mr. White laid off an addition to Springville and took a very active and important part in the development of this section of the county. As a progressive and energetic man, he took a commendable interest in public affairs and was called ujinn to fill various official positions of honor and trust. He served as supervisor during the trying days of the Civil war, and always faithfully discharged any duty which devolved upon him, whether public or private. He li\ed in comparative retirement for some years before.his death. i\Irs. White attends the Presbyterian Church of Springville, in which faith she was reared, and is a most estimable lady, who has a large circle of friends and acquaintances throughout the ciiunty.

As printed in Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.