B.
S.
WHITE, farmer, post-office Sandy Lake, was born February 18,
1824, in Lake Township. His father, Hiram White,
married Polyxenia Stokely, daughter of Benjamin
Stokely. Hiram White was born in` Westmoreland County, Penn., and
came to this county with his parents, John and Nancy
(Dugan) White, and settled at the head of what is known as Wild Cat
Hollow, in Lake Township. Here John White
died in 1828, and Nancy, his wife, died about
four years later, in Cool Spring Township, at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Lanagan. The children of John and Nancy were
Hiram, Joseph, David, James, Sarah, Anna, Betsey and
Rebecca. Sarah, married Aaron Scroggs; Anna,
married John Scroggs; Betsey, married Valentine
Zahniser; Rebecca, married Fergus Hill. Hiram
and Polyxenia White had nine children: David,
died with the typhoid fever; John, married Jane
Robb, and had two children, John, Rebecca;
Esther, married Hugh Mitchell; Nancy,
married A. Jackson Carnahan, by whom she had Jerome,
Andrew, Tezetta, Betsey, Cindarilla, Nellie, Hiram, Gustavis A. and
Wilmina; Mr. Carnahan died in 1846, and was a
member of the Presbyterian Church; Rebecca,
married Charles Barton, and is a widow at
Council Bluffs, Iowa; Benjamin S., Hiram, Nathaniel
and Euclid are dead. Hiram White, the father
of our subject, died in 1841, and his widow died in 1856. B.S.
White was educated in the common schools, and brought up on a farm.
He read medicine with Dr. Hiram White, his
brother, at New London, this county, for two years. His brother practiced
in this county about twenty-seven years, retired, and died at the home of
our subject. Mr. White as married January 16,
1858, to Catharine Hettenbaugh, of Lawrence
County. He settled on his
present farm, consisting of 100 acres, in 1839, and has mostly developed
it from the woods to its excellent condition. He has always been an ardent
Democrat.
History
of Mercer County,
1888, page 1118-1119
