San Bernardino County Fourth District Supervisor 1899-1903
Son of James White. Living on his fathers farm and after completinhis public school studies, he took up mining engineering and graduated from Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania in 1862. During the invasion of the state by the Confederate Army, he enlisted in the Pennsylvania State Militia.(Civil War)
Following the Civil War, Mr.White went to Nevada where he worked for three years as the superintendent of a mine, after which he was with the Memphis and El Paso Railroad and came to California for the purpose of assisting in the building of the road through to San Diego. Upon completion of that project he became the Chief Clerk and Draftsman in the Surveyor-General's office in Arizona, but soon after resumed field work which he followed for ten years. He was President of the Chracua Cattle Company of Arizona.
He was married to Anna Maxwell, daughter of a san Francisco merchant in 1876 in San Diego. They had four children
They moved to Chino so he could be home more, accepting the position of Superintendent of the Chino Land and Water Company. Two years later he became manager of L.W.Blinn Lumber Company. The family lived at Seventh Street in Chino.
Elected as Supervisor he served from January 2,1899 to January 5,1903. He became known as the "father of oiled Roads" in California. Afterwards he was a road construction contractor.
On January 7, 1914, while inspecting a road he was constructing in Colton, he slpped and fell into the swollen Lytle Creek at Eight and Johnson Street and drowned. He was survived by his wifeand four children,
Frederick P.White
Florence White Newman(1883-1957)
Edith Rie White Vaughn(1901-1951)
Leonard White
Son of James White. Living on his fathers farm and after completinhis public school studies, he took up mining engineering and graduated from Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania in 1862. During the invasion of the state by the Confederate Army, he enlisted in the Pennsylvania State Militia.(Civil War)
Following the Civil War, Mr.White went to Nevada where he worked for three years as the superintendent of a mine, after which he was with the Memphis and El Paso Railroad and came to California for the purpose of assisting in the building of the road through to San Diego. Upon completion of that project he became the Chief Clerk and Draftsman in the Surveyor-General's office in Arizona, but soon after resumed field work which he followed for ten years. He was President of the Chracua Cattle Company of Arizona.
He was married to Anna Maxwell, daughter of a san Francisco merchant in 1876 in San Diego. They had four children
They moved to Chino so he could be home more, accepting the position of Superintendent of the Chino Land and Water Company. Two years later he became manager of L.W.Blinn Lumber Company. The family lived at Seventh Street in Chino.
Elected as Supervisor he served from January 2,1899 to January 5,1903. He became known as the "father of oiled Roads" in California. Afterwards he was a road construction contractor.
On January 7, 1914, while inspecting a road he was constructing in Colton, he slpped and fell into the swollen Lytle Creek at Eight and Johnson Street and drowned. He was survived by his wifeand four children,
Frederick P.White
Florence White Newman(1883-1957)
Edith Rie White Vaughn(1901-1951)
Leonard White
San Bernardino County Fourth District Supervisor 1899-1903
Son of James White. Living on his fathers farm and after completinhis public school studies, he took up mining engineering and graduated from Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania in 1862. During the invasion of the state by the Confederate Army, he enlisted in the Pennsylvania State Militia.(Civil War)
Following the Civil War, Mr.White went to Nevada where he worked for three years as the superintendent of a mine, after which he was with the Memphis and El Paso Railroad and came to California for the purpose of assisting in the building of the road through to San Diego. Upon completion of that project he became the Chief Clerk and Draftsman in the Surveyor-General's office in Arizona, but soon after resumed field work which he followed for ten years. He was President of the Chracua Cattle Company of Arizona.
He was married to Anna Maxwell, daughter of a san Francisco merchant in 1876 in San Diego. They had four children
They moved to Chino so he could be home more, accepting the position of Superintendent of the Chino Land and Water Company. Two years later he became manager of L.W.Blinn Lumber Company. The family lived at Seventh Street in Chino.
Elected as Supervisor he served from January 2,1899 to January 5,1903. He became known as the "father of oiled Roads" in California. Afterwards he was a road construction contractor.
On January 7, 1914, while inspecting a road he was constructing in Colton, he slpped and fell into the swollen Lytle Creek at Eight and Johnson Street and drowned. He was survived by his wifeand four children,
Frederick P.White
Florence White Newman(1883-1957)
Edith Rie White Vaughn(1901-1951)
Leonard White
Son of James White. Living on his fathers farm and after completinhis public school studies, he took up mining engineering and graduated from Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania in 1862. During the invasion of the state by the Confederate Army, he enlisted in the Pennsylvania State Militia.(Civil War)
Following the Civil War, Mr.White went to Nevada where he worked for three years as the superintendent of a mine, after which he was with the Memphis and El Paso Railroad and came to California for the purpose of assisting in the building of the road through to San Diego. Upon completion of that project he became the Chief Clerk and Draftsman in the Surveyor-General's office in Arizona, but soon after resumed field work which he followed for ten years. He was President of the Chracua Cattle Company of Arizona.
He was married to Anna Maxwell, daughter of a san Francisco merchant in 1876 in San Diego. They had four children
They moved to Chino so he could be home more, accepting the position of Superintendent of the Chino Land and Water Company. Two years later he became manager of L.W.Blinn Lumber Company. The family lived at Seventh Street in Chino.
Elected as Supervisor he served from January 2,1899 to January 5,1903. He became known as the "father of oiled Roads" in California. Afterwards he was a road construction contractor.
On January 7, 1914, while inspecting a road he was constructing in Colton, he slpped and fell into the swollen Lytle Creek at Eight and Johnson Street and drowned. He was survived by his wifeand four children,
Frederick P.White
Florence White Newman(1883-1957)
Edith Rie White Vaughn(1901-1951)
Leonard White
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