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WILLIAM M. WHITE, saw-miller and carpenter, Feesburg, is a son of Sylvester White, who was born on July 5, 1801, in what is now Brown County, Ohio, near Higginsport, where he matured as a farmer boy. His educational privileges were few, but he embraced them as best he could. He was his father’s valuable assistant until his marriage with Margaret Davidson, of Union Township, where she was born November 12, 1807. Soon after marriage, they settled on White Oak, and have since lived in Brown County, save one year spent in Indiana. His last earthly residence was in R. K. Mead’s Survey, No. 1664, Lewis Township. On June 5, 1851, his death occurred prematurely and accidentally. While at a barn-raising, a falling pike-pole struck his head, breaking the skull, and causing almost instant death. He was a man five feet and ten inches high, strong and energetic. His children were six in number, of whom four are now living, viz.: James T., John C., Mary E. and William M. His widow married for her second husband Alfred Brown, but now resides with her son, William, whose name heads this sketch He is the youngest child, and was born September 15, 1837, in Pleasant Township, but from nine years of age has been a resident of Lewis Township, where he matured on the farm. Thus he continued until February, 1865, when he entered the army in Company K, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war. He was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., returned home, engaged in carpentering, and in 1869 took in connection the saw-milling business, which he has jointly conducted since; the first mill on this seat was erected in 1848, and succeeded by the present one in 1868. Mr. White was married, December 18, 1870, to Miss Australia Morgan, born September 10, 1850, in Clermont County, Ohio, where she was raised. She and Mr. White have six children, of whom five are now living.