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Farmer, section 22, was 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 purchases 80 acres of wild land on section 23, Sheridan Township; he purchased an additional 80 in 1883, and had 60 acres, on which he resided, 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 had three children: May H., Lou E. and Charles T. Mr. and Mrs. White were members of the Advent Church, and in politics he was a Greenbacker. Mr. White owned altogether 240 acres of land in Sheridan Township.
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