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 WHITE. WHITE. 649 works then being built from Natick to Boston. He worked a year each in a dry- goods store at Saxonville and in a market at Newton Upper Falls. Several years were then spent in the market business in Roxbury, North Attleborough and Chico- pee, and in [S54 he opened a dry-goods and grocery store in llolden. Mr. White removed to Shirley in 1856, where he purchased a farm and saw- mill, and has manufactured baskets, shingles, staves, and dealt in northern haul and soft lumber at that place ever since. EDWIN L WHITE. Mr. White was married in llolden, on November 30 (Thanksgiving Day), [854, to Martha E., daughter of William II. and Eliza B. (Graves) White. Mrs. White died at Shirley, June 23, 1875, leaving no chil- dren. A second marriage was consum- mated at Mansfield, March 7, [878, with llatlie E., daughter of Rufus P. and Sarah (Goff) Hardon. They have one child : Mabel Reed White, born at Mansfield, August 6, 1881. Mr. White had two younger brothers, George Reed and Henry Rirke, who en- listed in the late civil war — the first killed in battle June 30, 1862, and the latter dying April 19, 1S72, of disease contracted while in the army. Mr. White was first chosen selectman and overseer of the poor in Shirley, in 1865, and is now serving his nineteenth year in that capacity. He has been assessor of taxes, and held other town offices. He has been a Knight of Honor since 1878, and is now treasurer of Ayer Lodge, No. 588. He is a justice of the peace and quorum. WHITE, Francis Everett, son of George W. and Betsey (Burrell) White, was born in South Weymouth, Norfolk county, August 8, 1S37. He received his early education in the common and high school of his native town. From sixteen years old until of age, he served in a mercantile house in Boston, engaged in the South American and West India trade. In November, 1S58, he went to New York as clerk in a house engaged in foreign trade, and remained until the breaking out of the war. Mr. White enlisted September 21, 1861, as private in the 4th New York cavalry, and served in the army of the Potomac three years and three months. During his service he rose through the several grades to 1st lieutenant and brevet-cap- tain After the close of the civil war Mr. White returned to South Weymouth, and very soon settled in North Bridgewater (now the city of Brockton), where- he engaged in the manufacture of boots ami shoes, and where he still carries on the business, amounting to §650,000 an- nually, Mr. White was married in North Bridge- water (now Brockton), May 2, 1866, to Adaline F., daughter of Charles I., and Betsey 1!. Hauthaway. Of this union were three children : Walter Hautha- way, Francis Burrell, and Henry Preston White. Mr. White has served his city as alder- man two years, and is a prominent factor in the Republican party, ever active in its interests, but uniformly declining to take any political preferment. lb' is a member of Fletcher Webster Post, G. A R. a duel tor in the Brockton National Bank, and a prominent member in the different Masonic bodies. He is a large holder of real estate in Brockton, and a successful manufacturer. Mr. White is a direct descendant from Peregrine White of the " Mayflower" corn- pan)-, and his church connections are with the Congregational branch of the orthodox faith — his family religion from time im- memorial.