Biography

01/30/1830 - 02/20/1916

WHITE, William Ross, a Representative from Adams County; born, January 30, 1830 in Adams County, Pa.; farmer; justice of the peace (17 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); director, Adams County Mutual Fire Insurance Company; died, February 20, 1916 in Liberty Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania; interred, Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania.