Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Montgomery County Alexander T. Strange Editor Munsell Publishing Co, Chicago 1918 White, Bliss C. was reared at Effingham Ill., and was graduated from its high school, following which he entered Austin College at Effingham and also took a year's courses in the Normal School at Carbondale, Ill. Leaving school, Mr. white became a stenographer for the Democratic State Central Committee in Chicago in 1900, and in 1901 he came to Hillsboro and went into the real estate business with James E. Colvin., this connection continuing until the death of Mr. Colvin in 1907. Mr. White then was elected secretary of the Hillsboro Building and Improvement association, which position he still holds. For a short time he was associated with George T. Seward in the real estate business. In 1908 Mr. Seward sold his interest in the firm to John B. White, a brother of Bliss C. White, who have since then continued in the real estate and insurance business under the firm name of White & White. On November 15, 1905, Mr. white was married to Miss Lela Fisher, a daughter of John O and Marie (Seward) Fisher. They have three children, namely: John V., Robert C., and Bruce F. Mr. and Mrs. White are members of the Presbyterian Church at Hillsboro and he belongs to Mt Moriah Lodge No. 51 A. F. & A.M. In politics he is a Democrat and was supervisor of Hillsboro Township for two terms and chairman of the county board for one year. During the campaigns of 1910 and 1912 he was a member of the Democratic County Central Committee. Mr. White's father, John C. White, and his mother, Ellen (bliss) white, were natives of North Carolina and Montgomery County respectively. They had five children as follows: Mary, who died in infancy; Bliss C.; Nellie K., who died when nine years old; Anne, who is the wife of Arthur B. Meservey of Hanover, N.H., an instructor at Dartmouth College; and John B., who lives at Hillsboro. The paternal grandfather was John B. white, a college professor who in 1855 founded Almira College at Greenville, Ill., and continued in charge until 1878, excepting two years he served as chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War. The maternal grandfather was Alfred Bliss, a native of New England, who came to Montgomery county, Ill., and settled on a farm east of where Fillmore now stands in he year 1838. He was a successful farmer and for many years a Methodist preacher during which time he was pastor at many places in southern Illinois. James White, the founder of this branch of the White family, is supposed to have been a native of Scotland, who came to this country in he first half of the eighteenth century, locating at Lancaster, Mass., and afterwards moved to Pembroke, N.H., where he died. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 12:25 PM Subject: [ILMONTGO] Illinois Historical Encyclopedia help needed > I am interested to see if any of the following names are listed. if so, I > would like to get a copy. Thank you! > > Rev. Alfred Bliss, Charles Wesley Bliss > > Nicodemus Brown, George W. Brown > > Dr. Joseph Knowles > > Solomon Mack, Jr. , Orlando Mack > > Rev. Isaac Merriam > > John Brown White, John Conant White > > > ==== ILMONTGO Mailing List ==== > The RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative is supported by its users: > RootsWeb would cease to exist if not for the support of folks like you. > By becoming a Member, Sponsor, or Donor, you help RootsWeb provide Web > and FTP space on thousands of genealogical topics, mailing > lists for thousands of groups of genealogists with shared interests, and > search engines to make huge amounts of genealogical data freely > available to Internet genealogists.Become A Rootsweb Sponser Today! > http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >