BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Pages 701-702.


A. P. WHITE, a prominent and successful teacher of Belmont county, was born
March 5, 1840, the son of Benjamin and Margaret E. (Phipps) White, the former of
whom was born at Brownsfield, Penn., in April, 1806. Prof. White received his
first education at Belmont, and subsequently attended the Barnesville academy,
then under the direction of Profs. William S. Alder and Samuel Davenport. He
then became a student at Hopedale college, in Harrison county, then presided
over by Edwin Regal, and after leaving this institution he began teaching at
Jacobsburgh, and afterward was the principal of the Belmont school for several
years. Sometime later he was treasurer of the Belmont Glass works for about two
years, and was then salesman in a grocery and queensware store at Bellaire for
eighteen months. He became superintendent of the Bellalre schools and served one
year, and was then the principal of the First ward school of that city for three
years, after which he went to Quaker City, and was principal of the school one
year. On closing this engagement he went to his farm near Lewis' Mills and
remained there some time but subsequently removed to Belmont; and for five years
held the position of principal of the school. He is now residing on his farm,
and teaching a school in the vicinity. Mr. White was married December 29, 1863,
to Ermina J. Hoge, who was by this union the mother of six children. She died
March 15, 1877. Of the children, Alvin Lincoln, a graduate of Bethany college,
is a civil engineer of Wheeling; the other children are Albert Bushrod, Ernest
Milton, Charles Lloyd, Ada Hoge and Clara Leona. On September 24, 1879, Mr.
White was married to Caroline Virginia Wilkinson, by whom he has one daughter,
Julia Elizabeth. Mr. White and wife and four eldest children are members of the
Disciple church of Belmont.