Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . gomery,Christian, Sangamon, Cass, Menard, .Scott, Mor-gan and Brown Counties. He was also Presidentof the S[)ringfield Manufacturing Company from1871 to 1875. Indeed, it would be impossible ina biographical sketch to render full justice to thegreat popularity and unusual success of our sub-ject. Suffice it to say that his has been a careerthat may well be taken as a model by the youth ofour country. , ^ ^-^^ ^ lS^. ^ I-. /^d<i-c^<^ /^i^^j^^t^J^ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 745 fort in his adopted Stato, where his life was
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . gomery,Christian, Sangamon, Cass, Menard, .Scott, Mor-gan and Brown Counties. He was also Presidentof the S[)ringfield Manufacturing Company from1871 to 1875. Indeed, it would be impossible ina biographical sketch to render full justice to thegreat popularity and unusual success of our sub-ject. Suffice it to say that his has been a careerthat may well be taken as a model by the youth ofour country. , ^ ^-^^ ^ lS^. ^ I-. /^d<i-c^<^ /^i^^j^^t^J^ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 745 fort in his adopted Stato, where his life was broughtto a dose at a ripe age. Thomas White was tlie fiftli child in a family ofsix children and he was well trained bj his parentsin the duties of life. He remained an inmate ofthe parental household till he was thirty-sevenyears old, when he met a lady who changed thecurrent of his life, Amanda Miles, to whom hewas wedded in Terre Haute, Ind., on the 19thof December, 1867. Their marriage has been oneof happiness and has been blessed to them bythe birth of eiulit children, of whom five are nowliving. Oursul)ject took an important step in life whenhe left his old home in Indiana and took up hisresidence in this county in He then locatedin Island Grove Township, where he bought onehundred and sixty acres of land on section 15,which is still in his possession, is worth$70 per acre. Under his skillful management ithas become highly productive and its improvem
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