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Born 1838, Boone county
From History of Boone County, Missouri (1882)
JAMPS T. WHITE.
es T. White, farmer, is the son of William C. White, who was 1 1812, and came to Missouri about the year 1822 and settled irard county, where he remained one year, finally removing to county and settling on a farm near where James T. White now The subject of this sketch was born in Boone county, March 1838. His mother, Luvicy Lawrence, was a native of Ken- Mr. White was reared on the farm, and has always followed 3upation of a farmer. Was a soldier in the Confederate army,, first a member of Capt. John Bole's company, afterwards with tone. Was at Prairie Grove, Milliken's Bend, Gaines' Landing, number of smaller engagements. He served three years. He and his brother-in-law have in partnership three hundred and seventy-six acres of land and devote their attention to farming and stock-raising. When Mr. White returned home from the war fifty dollars comprised all that he possessed in the world. He now owns, in addition to his Boone county property, a stock farm in Vernon county, Missouri, which he manager in connection with his lands in Boone county.
As printed in History of Boone County, Missouri (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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