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893 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
George Washington and Betsey (Burrell)
White, was born Aug. 8, 1837,, in South Weymouth,
Mass., and in the common schools of
his native village and at the first high school
Bridgewater, now the city of Brockton, Mass.,
where he began a business career which has
proved one of marked success, and where as
a citizen he has won and held the confidence,
esteem and respect of his fellow citizens. He
became associated with the late Daniel S. Howard
in the manufacture of boots and shoes,
and they operated under the firm style of Daniel
S. Howard & Co., the senior member of the
firm having the reputation of being one of the
most successful and leading manufacturers in
Massachusetts. Withdrawing from this firm
in 1879 Mr. White established a business of
the same kind on his own account, under the
firm name of F. E. White & Co., in which
from the very start he greatly prospered, until
he became one of the wealthy men of his
adopted city. He continued actively engaged
in the manufacture of shoes until 1906, in
which year he retired, since then devoting him-
self to the care of various real estate holdings
and invested interests.
A man of large and keen business ability
and foresight, and one of force, the interest
Mr. White has always manifested in the advancement
of the city has not been without
profit to the community. He was an early advocate
of the proposed change of the name
from North Bridgewater to one more distinctive
in character and favored the name of
of the town acquired the rudiments of his
education, which he furthered at the South
Weymouth high school, which lie attended one
year. At the age of seventeen (1854) he went
to Boston, wliere he entered the counting room
of Daniel Deshon & Son, at No. 5 Long wharf,
who were engaged in the South American and
West Indies trade, and there acquired a good
business training. When twenty-one years of
age he went to New York and there was similarly
occupied until the breaking out of the
Civil war, in 1861. Answering the call of his
country, he left the counting room for the
tented field, enlisting Sept. 2, 1861, in Company
G, 4th New York Cavalry, and for upward
of three years shared the fortunes of war
with his command, which during his service
formed a part of the Army of the Potomac.
For meritorious service at the battle of Fredericksburg,
Va., in December, 1868, he was
promoted to first lieutenant. He was mus-
Brockton, which was finally adopted. He early
advocated the change from the town to the
city
tered out with his regiment Oct. 28, 1864, at
Winchester, Virginia.
Returning to his native State at the close
of the war with an honorable army record,
Lieutenant White located in the town of North
form of government, and since the change
he has most intelligently served two terms,
1887 and 1888, as a member of the board of
aldermen, being president of the board the
latter year. He was also one of the comraiS'
sioners of the Sinking Fund for a number of
years. For years Mr. White was a director of
the Brockton National Bank and the Boylston
National Bank of Boston. He is a Mason,
holding membership in Paul Revere Lodge, A.
F. & A. M.; Satucket Chapter, R.' A. M.;
Brockton Council, R. & S. M. and ; Bay State
Commandery, K. T.— of Brockton. He is a
member of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion, of Fletcher Webster Post, No. 13, G.
A. R., and of the Commercial Club. Mr.
White is an active member of the Church of
the New Jerusalem, and has served on thestanding
committee of the church for a number
of years, being liberal in his support of
all worthy religious and charitable movements.
It is worthy to note here that this White
family to which Lieutenant White belongs is
truly a military and patriotic one. His father
was a soldier in the war of 1812, and two of
his more remote ancestors were patriots
of the
Revolution, both serving as soldiers, while the
first five of the seven sons of his father were
participants in the war for the preservation
of the Union, 1861-65, all performing faithful
and honorable service.
Mr. White has traveled quite extensively,
both in this country and abroad. His political
affiliations have been with the Republican
party. He is a temperance man, believing it
for the good of the community.
On May
2, 1866, Mr. White married Adaline
Frances, born Feb. 17, 1844, daughter of
Charles Little and Betsey (Morton) Hauth-
away, of Brockton, Mass. She died May 24,
1884, and in October, 1885, he married (second)
Fanny Carlton, only daughter of Rufus
Carlton and Mary (Tobey) Kimball, of Brockton,
and widow of George F. Gurney, of Brockton.
One child, Henry Preston, was born to-
the first marriage. He has been liberally educated,
graduating from Harvard University in
1899, and is now an architect in Boston, being
the junior member of the firm of Pray, Hubbard
& White ; he married Sarah Croome Cole-
man, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and they now reside
in Brookline, Mass., the parents of two children,
Frances Everett and John Hauthaway,