This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WHITE, ANDERSON Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZaB.2ACE/1462 Message Board Post: From History of Mower County, Minnesota (1884) via HeritageQuest George O. WHITE served in the late war in Company I, First Pennsylvania Rifles. He enlisted August 31, 1861 and served three years . . . . He was honorably discharged, at the expiration of his terrm of enlistment, in August 1864. He was born in McKean County, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1838. When he was sixteen years of age, his parents moved to Illinois, and settled in Winnebago county, where they lived two years, after which they lived in Winnebago county, Wisconsin. He made his home with them until 1859, when he returned to Pennsylvania, where he was employed as a clerk in a store. After his return from the war he joined his parents, who had come to this county and settled in Red Rock Township. His health had been impaired while in the service, and he was not able to do hard work, so for a time he engaged in selling fruit trees. In 1873, he went to Winnebago county, Wisconsin, where he was appointed deputy sheriff by his brother. He remained there two and one-half year! s, then he returned to Mower county, and settled in Austin, where he has since lived, with the exception of two years spent in Yellow Medicine county, where he had taken a homestead. He was joined in marriage, in 1866, to the former Carrie Louisa Anderson. She was born in York State. They have one son, Fred.