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 650 WHITE. WHITE. WHITE, JAMES L., son of John D. and Delight (Hutchins) White, was born in Peru, Berkshire county, October 18, 18.21. The common district school gave him his early educational training. He first began life for himself by tilling the soil. Successful in this, he extended his busi- ness by taking in the lumber trade. This was in 1S55, and farming and lumbering have constituted his business up to the present time. He has always been active in town matters, and alive to the public questions of the hour. He has been town clerk of Windsor for eighteen years ; selectman and assessor many years ; was a member of the Legis- lature in 1855 and '73, and served his country during the war of the rebellion, as orderly-sergeant in company K, 49th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers. Mr. White was fust married in Windsor, his present residence, June 8, 1843, lo Ruby, daughter of Lyman and Betsey (Snow) Bird. His second marriage was in Dalton, February :.', 1S70, with Maria T., daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth (Weir) Darby. He has by his first wife, two children: Ward I), and Mary E. White (now Mrs. Ford), both living in Windsor. WHITE, LUTHER, son of Andrew and I'll ilrn. 1 (Stebbins) White, was born inGran- by. Hampshire county, September 2, 1 84 1 . Common schools gave him his early edu- cation. Having prepared for college at Williston Seminary, he entered Brown Uni- versity in 1861, and was graduated in the class of 1864. He then studied law with Judges Wells andSoule, at Springfield, also with the Hon. Charles Robinson at Boston. He was admitted to the bar in 1868, at Cambridge. He practiced law in Spring- field for a time, and in 1X70 removed to Chicopee, where he has since resided and continued in the practice of his profes- sion. Mr. White was married in Chicopee, in 1S7J, to Mary, daughter of Moses ( '. and Adaline (Weils) Hadley. They have one child : Mabel A. White. The close application necessary to the duties of his profession and to the business enterprises in which he is engaged has de- terred Mr. White from entering much into public life, and with the exception of being for a number of years a member of the school board, he has never tilled any office in the gift of the people He is interested in various corporations, and is a director of the Ames Sword Com- pany, and the Overman Wheel Company, and was for seven years treasurer of the Ames Manufacturing Company. WHITE, Ralph Huntington, son of Joseph and Sophia (Huntington) White, was born 111 Hinsdale, Berkshire county, January 11, 1S41. His early education was accomplished at the public schools of his native place. The child was truly father of the man, for at the early age of eight years he began trading on his own account by peddling apples on the cars, and keeping a small stock of notions in his father's house. When eighteen years of age he came to Boston and became a salesman in the retail dry-goods store of S. J. Wilcox & Co. RALPH H. WHITE. When twenty-one, he bought an interest in the firm of Hunker & Tower, dry-goods, and continued the business under the name of Tower & White, selling out in [863 to enter the firm of Wilcox, White & Rora- back, which was then formed. In 1864 the name was changed to Wilcox, White vV Co., and the ist of January, 1865, the busi- ness was sold out ui Shepard, Norwell & Brown. A short time later Mr. White en- tered into partnership with his brother, under the firm name of R. H. White & Co., and March 1, 1S65, they opened a whole- sale and retail dry-goods store at Nos. 44