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JOHN E. WHITE, merchant, Feesburg, is a native of Italy, and since 1853 an American citizen. He came to Brown County in 1856, but subsequently spent two years in the South. At the outbreak of the rebellion, he was in Brown County, Ohio, where he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving until the expiration of his enlisted term, three months, when he returned home, and in August, 1862, re-enlisted in Company K, Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving about nine months, when he was discharged on account of a wound received while in the battle of Stone River on December 31, 1862. His left arm still remains stiff from the effects of the wound. He returned home, and in 1864 married Harriet Powell, by whom he has five children, all living. Soon after his marriage, he engaged in farming, which he followed until 1869, when he embarked in the mercantile trade in Feesburg, and now enjoys a liberal patronage in his line, groceries, hardware and confectionery. He is a man forty-three years of age, and has made his way through life by starting with no means, but with a full determination to succeed.