Tulare County Biographies

CHARLES R. WHITE

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        In enumerating the citizens of Tulare county who have won honor and 
recognition for themselves and are attaining a gratifying measure of material 
success, specific mention should be made of Charles R. White, who gained a 
splendid reputation for the conscientious performance of his duties as milk 
inspector for Tulare county and who has always showed a deep interest in the 
welfare of the community with which he has identified himself. He is a native of 
the state of North Carolina, born on a farm, on the 10th day of February, 1886. 
He is the son of G. P. and Sarah R. (Howard) White, the former of whom is a 
successful farmer and respected citizen of that locality. The mother has been 
dead for more than thirty years.
        Charles R. White was reared on the paternal farmstead and secured his 
education in the common schools of his native locality. He remained there until 
he had attained his majority, when he came to California, locating in 
Porterville, near where he obtained employment on a dairy farm. His ambition was 
to become an expert dairyman and his efforts were all to this end. By economy, 
he at length saved money with which he was enabled to take a complete course in 
the California State Agricultural College at Davis. Returning then to 
Porterville, from 1911 to 1916 he was employed in creamery work, then went with 
the Western Meat Company of San Francisco, and in 1917 he became connected with 
the Weimer Ice Cream Company in Fresno. From 1918 to 1921 he held the position 
of milk inspector for the city of Fresno, and at the end of that period he came 
to Tulare and assumed the duties of milk inspector of Tulare county. This is a 
responsible position, under the supervision of the department of agriculture, 
and his duties took him to every part of the county. He thoroughly understood 
every detail of dairying and no man has ever filled this position more 
efficiently nor conscientiously than he did. His efforts were fully appreciated 
by the public and his greatest reward was the satisfaction of feeling that his 
work was well done. Mr. White gives his nominal support to the democratic party, 
but he is broad in his views and believes that a candidate's fitness for the 
office he seeks should be considered paramount to party allegiance.
        Mr. White was married on June 28, 1914, to Miss Gyneth Fry, who was born 
and reared in Lindsay, Tulare county, her parents having been pioneer settlers 
of California. To Mr. and Mrs. White has been born a son : Arthur Claire. On 
January 7, 1925, Mr. White was relieved of his position in Tulare county, and 
then accepted the position of senior dairy inspector, being in the civil 
service, and assigned to upper San Joaquin valley and attached to Stockton 
headquarters. A large portion of his time is given to special work such as 
bacteriological tests, laboratory control of creamery and dairy products. Mr. 
White makes his home on his farm, which is located about two miles north of 
Tulare, and is giving special attention to the raising of poultry, in which he 
is greatly interested. Genial and companionable, he has won a host of friends 
since coming to this county.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 240