Augustine White

Augustine White

Augustine White, farmer, section 22, is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth White, natives of Ireland and Pennsylvania respectively, and was born in the latter State Dec. 7, 1849. At the age of seven years he came with his parents to Cass Co., Mich., where he lived most of the time until the spring of 1878, when he came to Newaygo County and purchased 80 acres of wild land on section 23, Sheridan Township; he purchased an additional 80 in 1883, and has 60 acres, on which he now resides, under improvement. He was married in St Joseph Co., Mich., to Isabella Stevens, daughter of Charles and Harriet Stevens, natives of Ohio and residents of Sheridan Township). They have three children: May H., Lou E. and Charles T. Mr. and Mrs. White are members of the Advent Church, and in politics he is a Greenbacker. Mr. White owns altogether 240 acres of land in Sheridan Township.

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