+774 i.
Mary WHITE.
775 ii.
Esther WHITE was born on 9 Nov 1830 in prob North Carolina. She died
on 24 Apr 1832 in prob North Carolina.399. Philo WHITE was
born on 23 Jun 1796 in Whitestown, New York. He has reference number 399. After
acquiring an academical education at the seminary in Whitesboro, Mr. White spent
three or four years as learner and contributor in the _Columbian_ Gazette_ newspaper
office in Utica. In 1820 he migrated to North Carolina and became the editor
and proprietor of _The Western Carolinian,_ which he continued to conduct until
1830, when he was appointed United States navy agent for the Pacific Station.
Returning home in 1884, he established the _North Carolina Standard,_ at Raleigh
was elected state printer and the _Standard_ became the state paper. From 1837
to 1844 he was a purser in the U. S. navy, and was attached to squadrons in the
Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and on the home station.
Mr. White removed to Wisconsin at an early period of its territorial existence,
and ultimately fixed his residence at Racine. He was the editor of several newspapers,
at different periods. In 1847 he was chosen a member of the Council of the Territorial
legislature, and in the following year was elected to the senate of the state
legislature. Here he took a prominent part in promoting various measures of
public utility. As chairman of the committee on education and school lands,
he shared largely in devising and framing the present system of public instruction
in that state. At a later period he was active in the founding of Racine College,
under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal church of that diocese, and was
one of its trustees. In 1856 the college conferred upon Mr. White the honorary
degree of doctor of laws. Chosen as one of the presidential electors of Wisconsin,
he was selected as president of the electorial college of that state in December,
1852. He was also brigadier general of the state militia.
In 1849 Mr. White was appointed U. S. consul to the Hanseatic Republic of Hamburg,
and resided there for one or two years. In July, 1853, he was appointed charge
d'affairs to the Republic of Ecador, S. A., and in 1855 was raised to the grade
of Minister Resident in that country. He continued in the discharge of the functions
of that office until September, 1858, and has now returned to take up his residence
in Whitestown, his native place.
For a more extended notice of Mr. White's public career, the reader is referred
to Livingston's portraits and memoirs of eminent Americans, vol. iv, from which
most of the facts in the foregoing sketch have been taken.
He was married to Nancy R. HAMPTON (daughter of William
HAMPTON and Mary HAMPTON*) on 9 May 1822 in prob North Carolina.
Nancy R. HAMPTON was born in Sep 1802 in Salisbury, North Carolina.
Philo WHITE and Nancy R. HAMPTON had the following children:
+774 i.
Mary WHITE.
775 ii.
Esther WHITE was born on 9 Nov 1830 in prob North Carolina. She died
on 24 Apr 1832 in prob North Carolina.