"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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WILLIAM FLETCHER WHITE was born in Putnam County, Ind., November 1, 1842,
and is the second son and fourth child of John and Cynthia (Ruggles) White,
natives of Virginia and Kentucky respectively. William F. was twenty-eight
years of age before he left the parental roof for the purpose of making a
home for himself. The vigorous exercises incident to farm life, and the
tutelage of the public schools had supplied him with both muscle and a fair
English education before he arrived at his majority. In the spring of 1861,
he enlisted in the three months' service as a private in Company H, Tenth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and in the summer of 1862, did the sixty-day
service in the Seventy-eighth Indiana. At Uniontown, Ky., the enemy
"gobbled him up" and put a temporary "embargo" upon his soldiering.
However, being full of patriotism and "fight," and having been exchanged as
prisoner of war, he enlisted October, 1863, in Company F, One Hundred and
Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was promoted to a
non-commissioned office, and stayed with them until August 25, 1865. He
fought the enemy at Richmond, Ky., Resaca, Ga., and in the Atlanta campaign,
at Nashville, at Franklin, at Kingston, N.C., and at Kenesaw Mountain; and
when the war was over, returned to his home as sound as a dollar. From 1866
to 1871, he worked at carriage-making in Greencastle, and in 1872 canvassed
a few months in the picture business. He came to Mooresville in October of
the latter year, and for five years worked as "journeyman" at his trade. In
1877, the firm of White & Shanafelt, carriage manufacturers, was organized,
and has proved a success. Mr. White was married, December 25, 1873, to
Ladoskey Jenkins, and has had born to him two children--Jessie Pearl and
Arthur Earl. Mr. and Mrs. White are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and the voting one of the family is a Republican.
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