John White

John White, the founder of this family in Stark county, and his wife, Amelia (Metcalf) Manning, were natives of Massachusetts. In 1833 they moved to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and 1836 to Goshen township, this county, making their first home in Illinois on the very ground where the Widow Mary J. White now resides, purchasing 160 acres of congressional land at the prices which then ruled. In religious affairs Mr. White was a Universalist, while his wife always was identified with Methodism. Of their children, Samuel M.; Mary, wife of G. H. Redfield; Sarah, wife of T. D. Church, and John A. are residents of this county. The father died October 29, 1852, in his fifty-fourth year, and the mother September 27, 1868, in her sixty-fourth year.