This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography are: White, Gunn, Pearce, Foster, Haddon, Hays, Briggs, Hinkle, ROBERT P. WHITE is postmaster of the City of Sullivan in Indiana. While he has held that office for several years, the community has chiefly associated his name with the local newspaper business. He is one of Indiana’s prominent newspaper owners and publishers. Mr. White has lived most of his life in Sullivan but was born in the City of Terre Haute, September 23, 1876. On both sides of his family he represents pioneer stock of Indiana. His grandparents, George and Naoma (Gunn) White, came to Indiana from Pennsylvania. His father, Samuel A. White, was reared in Terre Haute, and was in the grocery business there. From Terre Haute he moved to Carlisle, where he entered the general mercantile business. Subsequently, in 1882, he moved to Sullivan, where for many years he was in the drug business and where he helped organize the National Bank of that city and the Sullivan Loan & Trust Company and served as a director in both institutions several years. Samuel A. White was living retired at the time of his death, in 1913. His widow still survives him and is living at the old place in Sullivan. Samuel A. White married Rebecca M. Pearce and they had two children, Gertrude and Robert P. Gertrude is the wife of Niles Foster, of Chicago, Illinois. Rebecca M. Pearce was a daughter of Richard W. and Virginia (Haddon) Pearce. Richard W. Pearce was a Virginian, but lived for a time in Kentucky before coming to Indiana. Virginia Haddon was also from Virginia. She was born in 1816 and was a young girl when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Haddon, settled in Sullivan County, Indiana. John Haddon was a soldier in the War of 1812 and one of the conspicuous pioneers of Sullivan County Haddon Township was named for him and also the old community of Fort Haddon, a block house erected for protection against the Indians. Robert P. White received his common school education at Sullivan, graduated from high school in 1896, and for several years was clerk in his father’s drug business. However, mercantile life did not appeal to him so much as newspaper work. He spent a number of years in all branches of service with the Sullivan Democrat. In 1904 he and Dirrelle Chaney bought the Sullivan Union. He is now sole owner of that old established and influential weekly paper, which has continued strong in the cause of the Republican party since its inception just at the close of the Civil war, in 1866. Mr. White as a newspaper man has been interested in all phases of community life, politics as well, and has done some work in district and state affairs of his party, but has never sought active leadership as a party man. He was first appointed postmaster in 1922, during President Harding’s administration. His commission was signed by Mr. Will Hays, Sullivan’s most conspicuous contribution to the celebrities of the nation. Mr. Hays signed the commission just before he retired from the office of postmaster-general. Mr. White is now serving his third term, having been reappointed in 1926, by President Coolidge, and by President Hoover in 1930. Mr. White is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and B. P. 0. Elks No. 911 of Sullivan, and 1930-31 served as exalted ruler. He married, June 16, 1906, at Sullivan, Miss Bertha Briggs, daughter of Dr. Charles F. and Josephine (Hinkle) Briggs. The Briggs and Hinkle families are of early pioneer stock of Sullivan County and prominent in public life.