CHARLES G. WHITE

Sacramento County

Biographies

CHARLES G. WHITE

CHARLES G. WHITE--A rancher of experience and an enviable record, who well merits his retirement, is Charles G. White, who resides about fifteen miles north of Sacramento, on the Natomas Boulevard, where he owns a trim ranch and small orchard of some eighty acres, which he purchased in 1912. He has cleared off most of the land, and has rendered an invaluable service to the section of country by staying with the development since the infancy of the Natomas Reclamation District No. 1000. He is among the two per cent of ranchers in the district who are owners of their property, clear of any incumbrances.

Charles White was born at Springville, Iowa, the son of the late Hosea White, a native of Vermont and a shoemaker by trade, who in his later years was a pioneer farmer in Iowa, and became very prominent as a public-spirited man there. He was a direct descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in New England, who became famous in Colonial history for having been born on the “Mayflower,” in Cape Cod Harbor, in 1620. The mother of our subject was Elizabeth Greene, a native of Ohio, who came west to Iowa with her parents. Charles is the second youngest of eleven children, and he was preceded to the Golden State by his brother, the late Lincoln White, and Clinton L. White, of Sacramento.

Our subject came out to California in 1885, and spent a few months at Sacramento and in its environs, as a farmer associated with the late Lincoln White, on the Sacramento River near Jacobs Slough. He left Sacramento to go down to southern California, and for ten years he worked as a fireman and a mechanic on the Southern Pacific Railroad, running out of Los Angeles. In 1895, Mr. White returned to Sacramento, and he has since made this county his home; and he has done much to further the development of Sacramento County.

At Los Angeles, in 1913, Mr. White was united in marriage with Miss Anna G. Waters, a native of Springville, Iowa, and a gifted, charming woman, who came west to California in 1903, and now enjoys with Mr. White a wide circle of devoted friends.

Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 921-922. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.