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COLONEL JAMES WHITE.

The subject of this sketch was born at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, February 22d, 1770, of Scotch-Irish parents,
and when quite young was a clerk in the concern
of Talbot, Jones & Co., of Baltimore, Maryland,
with whom he remained two or three years. This firm advanced him a small
stock of goods, with which he made his first trip to Southwest Virginia.
On the 4th of January, 1798, he married Miss Eliza Wilson, and settled in

Col. James White.

Abingdon. All of his undertakings seemed to prosper,
and at the date of his death, which occurred October
20th, 1838, his estate was estimated to be
worth more than two-thirds of a million dollars. He
was over six feet in height, of broad shoulders, deep
chest, and that symmetry of limb that indicates
agility and strength. He left a very large and distinguished
family of children.