Husband John Barber White 1
Born: 8 Dec 1847 - Ellery Twp, Chautauqua Co, NY 1
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Father: John White (1805-1853) 2
Mother: Rebekah Barber (1807-1881) 1
Marriage: 6 Dec 1882 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 3
Other Spouse: Arabell Bowen (1848-1881) 3 - 22 Jul 1874 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co, OH 3
Wife Emma Siggins 4
Born: 6 Feb 1857 - Chariton, Lucas Co, IA 4
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Father: Benjamin Baird Siggins (1827-1903) 5
Mother: Elizabeth Erma Walker (1833-1864) 5
Children
1 F Emma Ruth White 6
Born: 30 Oct 1884 - Youngsville, Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 6
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2 M Jay Barber White 6
Born: 2 Oct 1886 6
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Died: 2 Aug 1887 6
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 M Raymond Baird White 6
Born: 18 Mar 1889 - Grandin, Carter Co, MO 6
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General Notes: Husband - John Barber White
He was educated in the pub-lic schools of the township and Jamestown (New York) Academy. From 1866 to 1868 he taught school in the winter and worked on the farm in summer, and then, in partnership with two Jenner brothers, purchased a two hundred acre tract of pine timber, cut the logs, and had them sawed at a neighboring mill. In 1870 Mr. White bought out the Jenner brothers, and associated with R. A. Kinnear, of Youngsville, Pennsylvania, he opened lum-ber yards in Brady and Petrolia, Pennsylvania, which he disposed of in 1874. He then moved to Tidioute, Pennsylvania, where he purchased the Arcade Mill, and opened a lumber yard in Scrubgrass, Pennsylvania, and at the same time he assisted in founding the Warren County News, a weekly paper, in Youngs-ville, Pennsylvania, which was later moved to Tidioute, when he became the sole proprietor. In 1878 he returned to Youngs-ville and purchased a stave, heading and shin-gle mill. In 1880, in association with E. B. Grandin, Captain H. H. Cumings, the late J. L. Grandin and the late Jahu L. and Living-ston L. Hunter, all of Tidioute, Mr. White organized the Missouri Lumber & Mining Company, a pioneer company in the develop-ment of the yellow pine lumber industry. Its mills, which were located at Grandin, Mis-souri, for over twenty years, were later in opera-tion at West Eminence, Missouri. Mr. White was general manager of this company from the beginning and president for a num-ber of years. In 1899 he was associated with O. W. Fisher and others in the organization of the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company, with mills at Fisher and Victoria, Louisiana, being secretary and director of this company. In 1901, he organized the Louisiana Central Lumber Company, with mills at Clarks and Standard, Louisiana, and he was president of this company. He was also connected with various enter-prises in the following capacities: President of the Forest Lumber Company, which owned a line of retail yards; secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Missouri Lumber & Land Exchange Company, with offices in the R. A. Long Building, Kansas City, Missouri; president of Salem, Winona & Southern Rail-road Company; president of the Ouachita & Northwestern Railroad Company; president of the Reynolds Land Company; vice-president of the Grandin-Coast Lumber Company, with timber holdings in the state of Washington; vice-president of the Fisher Flouring Mills Company, with mills at Seattle, Washington, and Belgrade, Montana; vice-president of the Fisher-White-Henry Company, Seattle, Wash-ington. Mr. White also owned a dairy farm on Chautauqua Lake, New York. He was the organizer and first president of the Missouri & Arkansas Lumber Association, the first or-ganization of Yellow Pine lumber dealers, which was later merged into the Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Association, of which Mr. White was twice elected president. He was a director of the Yellow Pine Manufac-turers' Association, and a member of the board of governors of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. He was also president of the Bank of Poplar Bluff, Mis-souri, from 1886 to 1907, and was a director in the New England National Bank, Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. White served as president of the board of education at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, from 1876 to 1879 and from 1880 to 1883. He was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1878, and was elected by the legislature of 1878 and 1879 one of a committee of seven to prosecute bribery cases. He served as post-master at Grandin, Missouri, from 1887 to 1892. In November, 1905, he was appointed by President Roosevelt as his personal repre-sentative to investigate as to whether the Cass Lake (Minnesota) Indian reservation should be opened up in part for settlement. Mr. White was deeply interested in the cause of con-servation, and wrote many papers which were published in pamphlet form. In 1908 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of the National Commission on the Conservation of Natural Resources. He was appointed by Governor Hadley on the Missouri State Forest Commission. He was chairman of the executive committee of the first, second and third National Conservation Congress, and president of the fourth National Congress held at Indianapolis, Indiana, in Oc-tober, 1912. He was a director of the National Conservation Association, and also of the American Forestry Association. He was a mem-ber of the National Association for Prevent-ing the Pollution of Rivers and Waterways, of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Con-gress, the National Irrigation Congress, and the Southern Commercial Congress. He was chairman of the Missouri committee of the National Conservation Exposition held in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1913. He was a mem-ber of the advisory committee of National Soil Fertility League. In 1912 he was appointed by Governor Hadley, of Missouri, on his per-sonal military staff with the rank of colonel.
Mr. White also held the following offices: President of the Kansas City Historical So-ciety, elected October 1, 1912; for fifteen years deputy governor-general of the Society of Colonial Wars from Missouri; fourth vice-president from Missouri of the Sons of the Revolution; trustee of Kidder Institute, Kid-der, Missouri; trustee of Drury College, Springfield, Missouri. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, Jamestown, New York, and Ararat Temple, Kansas City, Missouri. He was a mem-ber of the Missouri Historical Society, Vir-ginia Historical Society, New England Histor-ical & Genealogical Society, Worcester Society of Antiquity, "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society, Heath Historical Society (life), Na-tional Municipal League, American Academy of Political and Social Science (life), Ameri-can Political Science Association, Academy of Political Science of New York, American Civic Association, National Civic Federation, National Geographic Society, Holstein-Frie-sian Association (life), American Society of International Law. He was also a member of the following clubs in Kansas City, Missouri: City Club, Commercial Club, Mid-Day Club, Civil Service League, Knife and Fork Club, Fine Arts Institute. Mr. White was a student of genealogy, having published four volumes of the "Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachu-setts, 1574-1909"; "A Genealogy of the De-scendants of Thomas Gleason of Watertown, Massachusetts"; "A Genealogy of the De-scendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut, 1614-1909, and of John Barber of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1714-1909." Mr. White and his family are members of the Congregational church. [GPHAV, 280]
General Notes: Wife - Emma Siggins
She graduated from the Youngsville (Pennsyl-vania) high school and also from the pioneer class of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle of 1882. She subsequently taught school for ten years in Warren County, Penn-sylvania. She was prominent in social and club life of the vari-ous localities in which she resided. She was a member of the Good Templars Lodge of Youngsville, Pennsylvania; the Athenaeum Literary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, and the "History Class of 82" of Kansas City. She belonged to the C. L. S. C. Alumnae Associa-tion; was a life member of the Kansas City His-torical Society; director in the Juvenile Im-provement Club, and chairman of their fur-nishing committee for the new Boys' Hotel, erected in 1911, at Kansas City, Missouri, and also chairman of their Women's Auxiliary; was a member of the advisory board of the Fine Arts Institute of Kansas City. She was one of the organizers of the Kansas City Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and its historian for seven years, and was vice-regent of the organization and chairman of their patriotic education committee, which worked to place framed copies of the Ten Commandments in the hallways of the public school buildings of Kansas City, in December, 1912. She belonged to the Westminster Congregational Church of Kansas City, of which she was also a deaconess. Mrs. White was author of a Walker genealogy, and compiled histories of the Siggins and Kinnear families.