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H. CLAY WHITE, a native of Boone County, Ky., was born February 12, 1830, and is the eldest son of Joel and Parmelia (Karrick) White, natives of Orange County, Va., and Fayette County, Ky. Joel White was born January 20, 1790, served three months in the war of 1812, and arrived in Kentucky September 29, 1816. He located in Burlington, and for a while followed his vocation there as a shoemaker, but soon abandoned that business for the farm. His death took place September 10, 1876. H. Clay White was reared on the farm in Boone County, was educated at the Morgan Academy in Burlington, and at the age of nineteen entered the circuit clerk’s office. In 1859 he was appointed to fill a vacancy for one year. He then went to Kenton County, where he was clerk of the circuit chancery and criminal court for thirteen years, and assessor of the city of Covington for one year; for ten years he was director of the Northern Bank of Covington. He was elected a member of the State Board of Equalization, and still holds that position. While in the clerk’s office at Burlington he studied law, and in March, 1881, removed to Williamstown, Grant County, and began practice. For two years he has been a director of the Grant County Deposit Bank. He owns a fine farm of 198 acres, one and one-half miles north of the town. December 23, 1857, he married Miss Mary E. Woodford, of Montgomery County, Ky., and there have been born to them eight children, viz.: Anna, Henry, Juliet, Bettie, Katie, William, Nellie and Virginia.