Ventura County Biographies

F. M. White

Submitted by Sandy Neder

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F. M. White is a pioneer Californian and an early settler of Santa Paula, 
Ventura County. He was born in Kentucky, February 6, 1842. His father, Obadiah 
White, was a native of Virginia, his remote ancestors being Irish. His mother, 
nee Eliza Jane Jet, was a daughter of William Jet, of Virginia. Mr. White's 
parents had eight children, only three of whom are living. He was the second 
child, and was reared in Kentucky until fifteen years of age, when the family 
removed to Missouri. From that State they came to California, in 1862. Since 
coming to the far West, Mr. White has been engaged in various occupations; was a 
farmer on the Ojai; a miner at Virginia City, two years, for wages; mined for 
himself one season in Idaho, where he made $1,000; worked for wages in Placer 
County, California, at $3 per day; farmed in Sonoma County; and in 1874 came to 
Ventura County. Eight years he was foreman on the Blanchard & Bradley ranch. 
Since then he has been buying and selling lots; is now the owner of five lots, 
three dwelling-houses and a blacksmith shop, all of which are rented.
    He was married, in 1888, to Sarah Ellen Shessler, a native of Ohio. They are 
the parents of twin sons, Otto and Bert, born in Santa Paula, May 4, 1889. Mr. 
and Mrs. White are members of the Presbyterian Church. For over twenty years he 
has been affiliated with the I. O. O. F. fraternity. Politically, he is a 
Democrat.
 
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF SANTA BARBARA, SAN LUIS 
OBISPO, AND VENTURA, CALIF. by Ida Addis Storke, 1891, p 630