Harry O. White
One of the successful railroad men of Petaluma is Harry O. White, foreman and yard master of the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railway Company. Mr. White is a native of New Hampshire and was born in the same town, Ossipee, as that of his father’s birth and death. His father, George O., was a jeweler in Ossipee for many years, and in his early youth married Annie L. Felper, a native of Maine, and four children were born to them of whom only one, Harry, has ventured as far west as California.
Harry O. White was born February 27, 1874, and after his school days were completed in his home town, at the age of twenty, without any particular vocation in mind, left home for Swampscott, Mass., and there became baggage master for the Boston & Maine Railroad, and while in the employ of the company also learned telegraphy. After some years he became assistant agent and then agent for the same road. In the meantime he had been taking a course in stationary engineering through the International Correspondence School at Scranton, Pa., from which he graduated. In 1906 he went to Lovelock, Nev., and entered the employ of the White Cloud Mine Company as stationary engineer, but not liking the climate, he gave up the position after seven months and came to California, arriving in Sebastopol in January, 1907. The following year he entered the employ of the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railway Company as bill clerk and during the same year was advanced to foreman and yardmaster, a position which he has held ever since.
Mr. White is fortunate in having a twenty acre ranch, the fruit of his labor, from which he derives much enjoyment. Upon it he raises peaches and a great variety of apples, of which he has had most successful crops. It is located on the Forestville road, one and one-half miles from Sebastopol and easy of access to his business in Petaluma.
In Providence, R. I., Mr. White was united in marriage to Inez F. Moulton, a native of Florida. Maria being their only child. Fraternally he is associated with the Jr. O. N. A. M. of Petaluma and as a citizen he is very popular, being a man of splendid principles and a high type of Christian manhood. He is a member of the Baptist church and politically is a Republican.
History of Sonoma
County, California
History by Tom Gregory : Historic Record Company, 1891
Los Angeles, Ca. 1911
Transcribed by Roberta Hester Leatherwood
April 29, 2012 Pages 1020-1021
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