The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 878 

ISAAC WHITE.

A good property of sixty acres near Buena pays tribute to the care and labor
bestowed upon it by Isaac White. The place is situated within three-quarters of
a mile of the town and has been planted to orchards which are now in excellent
bearing condition.

Mr. White is a native of Henry county, Illinois. He was born October 11, 1856, a
son of Egbert and Mary A. (Wright) White, who were natives of New York. Removing
westward, they established their home in Illinois during the period of its early
settlement and there carried on farming until 1867, when they became pioneer
resident of Fremont county, Iowa, where they spent their remaining days. Isaac
White was a lad of about eleven years when the family went to Iowa and his
education, begun in the schools of Illinois, was continued in the schools of the
Hawkeye state. He afterward attended Tabor College for a few years and his
thorough training well qualified him for life's practical and responsible
duties. He became a successful agriculturist of Iowa, where he lived until 1910,
when he sold his property in the Mississippi valley and came to the northwest,
making the Yakima valley his destination. He purchased altogether sixty acres of
land situated three-quarters of a mile to the northeast of Buena and he at once
began the development and improvement of this property, which has been planted
to apples, pears and prunes. He made a careful study of the best nursery stock
to be secured and as the years have passed the care and labor with which he has
tended his trees have brought his orchards to good bearing. He has substantial
buildings upon his place, including commodious packing sheds, and his labors are
bringing to him merited prosperity.

On the 1st of January, 1880, Mr. White was united in marriage to Miss Nellie
Hyatt, a native of Ohio, by whom he had six children. namely: Nellie O., who is
deceased; Egbert S., a practicing dentist of Iowa; Grace A. and Mabel F., at
home; Halfred H., a lieutenant in the United States army, now stationed in
Germany; and Marie, who is the wife of Harry Emmons, a resident of Seattle.

Mr. White exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of
the republican party, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no
attraction for him. His attention is concentrated upon his business interests
and his unfaltering industry and sound judgment have made him one of the
prosperous orchardists in the vicinity of Buena.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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