When Levi White was born on 8 November 1838, in Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States, his father, James White, was 26 and his mother, Abigail Lick, was 28. He married Lucy Ann Atalanta Reed on 17 September 1860, in Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons. He lived in Reno, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States in 1885. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 24 March 1927, in Roseburg, Douglas, Oregon, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Roseburg, Douglas, Oregon, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
The Homestead Act of 1862 gave each citizen 160 acres of land. The qualified applicants were required to build a home and cultivate the land for five years.
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesAdapted from a compilation by Jennie M. Hart and Linda M. Slack It was in late August of 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln made his second call for volunteers for the Union in the War Between the S …
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