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CAPT. JAMES M. WHITE, farmer and school-teacher; P. O. Mt. Heron; born in Paterson, N. J., March 11, 1828; when quite young, he emigrated with his parents to Kentucky, and in 1840 came to Ohio and located in Ross Co. and completed his education in the high school at Chillicothe, and the Academies at Lebanon and Delaware; at 20 years of age, he engaged in school-teaching, which profession he followed until July, 1862, when he enlisted in the 91st O. V. I. and went forward to battle for the Union; he served through the campaign of West Virginia; after which he served under Gen. Sheridan during the campaign of the Shenandoah Valley, and was mustered out of service as Captain of Co. F of the above regiment, at Cumberland, Md., in July, 1865, having served in the Union army three years; he then returned to Ross Co. and followed farming and school teaching two years, and after a residence of five years in Clinton Co. came to Darke Co. in 1872, purchased a farm in Washington Township, and has since devoted his attention to farming and school-teaching. In 1874, he organized the Mt. Heron National Guards, which formed a part of the 3d Regiment; was elected Captain, which office he held until 1879, when, on account of physical disability, he received an honorable discharge. In 1854, he was united in marriage with Rachel A., daughter of John Chenoweth, one of the early pioneers of Darke Co.; they have five children now living, having lost three by death; the living are Mary, Jane, Annie, Elizabeth and Thomas; the deceased were Alice, Sarah and Lucina.