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HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY ILLINOIS - 1915

Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.



Page 979

WHITE, CLARENCE J. - No man of Cass County stands any higher in public estimation than Clarence J. White, merchant miller and member of the firm of Schultz, Baujan & Co. of Beardstown, for he has won his place here by honorable business methods and convincing personality. He was born in Green County, Wis., August 10, 1880, a son of Joseph W. and Villa (Schrack) White, natives of Green County, Wis., and Stephenson County, Ill. The father was a son of Obadiah J. White, who came from Connecticut, traveling down the Ohio River in a flatboat, landing at Cincinnati, Ohio, from whence he went by stage to Green County, Wis., there entering land to the amount of 640 acres, from the government, the patent papers being signed by President Martin Van Buren, and one-half of the land he acquired remains in the family to this day. He became a distinguished man, serving in the territorial legislature for two terms.

Clarence J. White attended the district schools of Cass County, and the Monroe High school, following which he went to the University of Wisconsin. From this institution he secured the degree of A. B., and he took a law course at Harvard University, from which he secured a degree of LL. B. For a year he taught school but after he was admitted to the bar he practiced his profession at Chicago for five years. Feeling that better opportunities awaited him in Cass County, he came to Beardstown and entered his present firm. In politics he is a Republican. He was reared in the faith of the Evangelical church.

On February 27, 1907, Mr. White was married at Beardstown to Oliva J. Schultz, born in Cass County, November 19, 1879. Mr. and Mrs. White have had two sons: John J. and Robert J. Mr. White owns the comfortable family residence at Beardstown where the friends of the family are cordially entertained.


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