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HON. CHARLES R. WHITE, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of the Third Sub-division of the Second Judicial District of Ohio, residing at Springfield, is a son of the late William White, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who is represented elsewhere in this volume. He partakes largely of the talent and ability of his honored father and bids fair to occupy as did the latter, a prominent position in the legal profession of the State. He is in the prime of life, having been born May 25, 1849, his birthplace being the city in which he still resides. He pursued his early studies in the city schools and later attended a private school taught by Prof. McGugan. Subsequently he was under the tuition of Prof. C. B. Buggies, a noted instructor.

When a youth of seventeen years Judge White entered Wittenberg College, at Springfield, from which he graduated in the class of 1871. He completed his literary and classical education in the Michigan University at Ann Arbor, taking a one year’s post-graduate course. Returning then to Springfield, he entered the law office of the Hon. J. Warren Keifer, with whom he studied two years and was then admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court.

Judge White entered upon the regular practice of his profession in partnership with Gen. Keifer, continuing therein until May, 1885, when he entered upon the discharge of his duties of his present office, to which he was first elected at the October election in 1884; and re-elected without opposition in November, 1889, and entered upon his second term in May, 1890. The Third Subdivision of the Second Judicial District in which he was so elected, is comprised of the counties of Clark, Greene, Warren and Clinton. Under the constitution of Ohio he is authorized to hold court within and his jurisdiction extends over ten counties, viz: Clark, Greene, Warren, Preble, Montgomery, Miami, Darke, Champaign, Clinton and Butler, these forming the Second Judicial District.

Judge White was for some time a Director of the Springfield Savings Bank, and is at present a Director of the Second National Bank, of Springfield, Ohio. Without being a politician, he is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, having cast his first Presidential vote for Gen. Grant, and he keeps himself thoroughly posted upon current events. Socially, he belongs to Clark Lodge No. 101, F. & A. M., and Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M., likewise Palestine Commandery, No. 33, K. T. He belongs to the Phi Kapi Psi fraternity and is President of the local Alumni Association. In social and business circles he stands second to none in the county.

The marriage of Charles R. White and Miss Louise Nixon was celebrated at the bride’s home in Dayton, Ohio, June 12, 1884. This lady was born in Clark County and is the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Murphy) Nixon, who were natives of Pennsylvania, and are now living. The Judge occupies a pleasant home in the eastern part of the city. He posesses talents of a high order and the strict integrity, with the sound judgment and adherence to duty in all the relations of life, which to such an eminent degree distinguished his honored father.