Biography

01/31/1841 - 08/01/1924

WHITE, Jeremiah Burns, a Representative from Franklin County; born, January 31, 1841 in Washington Township, Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pa.; attended, Fayetteville Academy; attended, Westminster College; private, Company D, 182nd Regiment, 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry (1863-1864, Civil War); woolen manufacturer; engaged, hosiery business; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as Republican in 1884; not a candidate for reelection to House (1886); cataloger, Pennsylvania State Library; died, August 1, 1924 in Camp Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Paxtang Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.