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COL. CARR B. WHITE (deceased) was born in Mason County, Ky., February 8, 1824. He was named after old Capt. Carr Bailey, who was seven years a Captain of a Virginia volunteer company during the Revolutionary war. Col. White was a son of John D. and Margaret R. (Baker) White, natives of the Old Dominion. He accompanied his parents to Ohio when two years of age, and was reared and educated in Georgetown. In early life he studied medicine, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Penn., about the year 1848. He immediately commenced the practice of his profession at Point Isabel, in Clermont Co., Ohio. He subsequently removed to Feesburg and Russellville, in this county, and in 1856 or 1857, located at Georgetown, where he resided till his death. He was an eminent physician, and during his medical career, enjoyed an extensive and lucrative practice. During the Mexican war he was Captain of Company G, First Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and served in Gen. Hamer’s Brigade, under Gen. Z. Taylor, for one year, his term of enlistment. He returned home and there resided till the commencement of the civil war. He raised a company of volunteers and had the honor to report the first company of volunteers ready for service to the Governor of Ohio. The company was accepted, and he was made Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the three months’ service. At the expiration of this time he re-enlisted, and continued at the head of his regiment till the war closed. He was brevetted a Brigadier General and commanded a brigade. The full rank was finally conferred upon him. During the war, he participated in the battles of Carnifax Ferry, South Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam and a number of other serious engagements. He was a “War Democrat,” and voted for Lincoln when he was re-nominated. Col. White’s father was the teacher of Gen. Grant, when the latter was a lad, and attending school in the old brick schoolhouse on “Dutch Hill,” in Georgetown. Gen. Grant was sent to West Point at the suggestion of John D. White and the solicitation of Congressman Thomas L. Hamer. Himself and Col. White were firm friends, and when he became President he appointed Col. White as Assessor of Internal Revenue of this district, which position he held at the time of his death. Col. White married Melita E. Waterman, a native of this county. Two children are living. The oldest was named Ulysses Grant White, after the General. When the latter was President, he further remembered the kindness of Col. White and his father, by appointing U. G. as a cadet to West Point. He graduated from that military post, and entered the army as a Lieutenant, serving as such for a term of years. He resigned his commission and accepted a position as Civil Engineer on the South Pacific Railroad, serving as such until the financial crisis of ‘73 caused the company to suspend operations. He was then appointed an Examiner in the Patent Office, but resigned to accept the position of Chief Engineer, in control of the United States Navy Yard at Boston, Mass., where he now officiates. Col. Carr B. White was a physician of the very first rank, an excellent soldier and an exemplary Christian. No man stood higher in the estimation of the people of Georgetown and Brown County. He departed this life on September 30, 1881, leaving a wife and two children.