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Company, with mills at Seattle, Washington, and Belgrade, Montana; vice-president of the Fisher-White-Henry Company, Seattle, Wash- ington. Mr. White also owns a dairy farm on Chautauqua Lake, New York. He was the organizer and first president of the Missouri & Arkansas Lumber Association, the first or- ganization of Yellow Pine lumber dealers, which was later merged into the Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Association, of which Mr. White was twice elected president. He is now a director of the Yellow Pine Manufac- turers' Association, and a member of the board of governors of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. He was also president of the Bank of Poplar Bluff. Mis- souri, from 1886 to 1907, and is a director in the New England National Bank, Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. White served as president of the board of education at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, from 1876 to 1879 and from 1880 to 1883. He was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1878, and was elected by the legislature of 1878 and 1879 one of a committee of seven to prosecute bribery cases. He served as post- master at Grandin, Missouri, from 1887 to 1892. In November, 1905, he was appointed by President Roosevelt as his personal repre- sentative to investigate as to whether the Cass Lake ( Minnesota) Indian reservation should be opened up in part for settlement. Mr. White is deeply interested in the cause of con- servation, and has written many papers which have been published in pamphlet form. In 1908 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of the National Commission on the Conservation of Natural Resources. He was appointed by Governor Hadley on the Missouri State Forest Commission. He was chairman of the executive committee of the first, second and third National Conservation Congress, and president of the fourth National Congress held at Indianapolis, Indiana, in Oc- tober, 1912. He is a director of the National Conservation Association, and also of the American Forestry Association. He is a mem- ber of the National Association for Prevent- ing the Pollution of Rivers and Waterways, of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Con- gress, the National Irrigation Congress, and the Southern Commercial Congress. He is chairman of the Missouri committee of the National Conservation Exposition to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1913. He is a mem-
ber of the advisory committee of National Soil Fertility League. In 1912 he was appointed by Governor IIadley, of Missouri, on his per- sonal military staff with the rank of colonel.
Mr. White also holds the following offices : President of the Kansas City Historical So- ciety, elected October 1, 1912 ; for fifteen years deputy governor-general of the Society of Colonial Wars from Missouri; fourth vice- president from Missouri of the Sons of the Revolution ; trustee of Kidder Institute, Kid- der, Missouri; trustee of Drury College, Springfield, Missouri. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, Jamestown, New York, and Ararat Temple, Kansas City, Missouri. He is a mem- ber of the Missouri Historical Society, Vir- ginia Historical Society, New England Histor- ical & Genealogical Society, Worcester Society of Antiquity, "Old Northwest" Genealogical Society, Heath Historical Society (life), Na- tional Municipal League, American Academy of Political and Social Science (life), Ameri- can Political Science Association, Academy of Political Science of New York, American Civic Association, National Civic Federation, National Geographic Society, Holstein-Frie- sian Association (life), American Society of International Law. He is also a member of the following clubs in Kansas City, Missouri : City Club, Commercial Club, Mid-Day Club, Civil Service League, Knife and Fork Club, Fine Arts Institute. Mr White is a student of genealogy, having published four volumes of the "Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachu- setts, 1574-1900"; "A Genealogy of the De- scendants of Thomas Gleason of Watertown, Massachusetts"; "A Genealogy of the De- scendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut, 1614-1909, and of John Barber of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1714-1909." Mr. White and his family are members of the Congregational church.
Mr. White married (first) July 22, 1874, Arabell Bowen, born in Harmony township, Chautauqua county, New York, February 22, 1848, died at White's Mills, Carter county, Missouri, November 16, 1881, daughter of Daniel Washington and Eliza (Smith) Bowen, who were the parents of two other children, namely : Hattie E. and Elmina. Daniel W. Bowen was a farmer (see Bowen XI). Mr. White married (second) December 6, 1882, Emma Siggins, born in Chariton, Iowa, Feb-
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ruary 6, 1857, daughter of Benjamin Baird and Elizabeth Erma (Walker) Siggins (see Sig- gins III). Children of first wife: 1. John Franklin, born in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, No- vember 9, 1875, died in Kansas City, Missouri, June 11, 1900; he graduated from the Kansas City high school in 1894; taught school one year in Box Butte county, Nebraska ; attended the University Medical College of Kansas City for two years, graduated from Missouri Medical College at St. Louis in 1898, and studied in Philadelphia also; in the fall of 1898 he became a member of the staff of the hospital department of the Missouri Lumber & Mining Company at Grandin, Missouri; in 1899 he took charge of the hospital depart- ment of the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company, Fisher, Louisiana; he was also local surgeon for the Kansas City Southern Railroad Company. 2. Fanny Arabell, born in Youngsville, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1876; she graduated at Oberlin College in 1902 ; in 1903 she married Alfred Tyler Hem- ingway, general manager of the Forest Lum- ber Company, Kansas City, Missouri; chil- dren: Franklin White, born in Alliance, Ne- braska, March 4, 1904, and Jane, born in Kan- sas City, Missouri, April 29, 1908. Children of second wife: 3. Emma Ruth, born in Youngs- ville, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1884; she graduated at Wellesley College in 1907, and was a post-graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1910 and 1911 ; in 1911 she made an investigation of the condi- tions of employment of women in industries for the board of public welfare in Kansas City ; in 1912 she is pursuing studies in Ber- lin, Germany. 4. Jay Barber, born October 2, 1886, died August 2, 1887. 5. Raymond Baird, born in Grandin, Missouri, March 18, 1889; graduated from the Kansas City West- port high school in 1909, and entered the Uni- versity of Wisconsin in the fall of 1909, where he did three years work ; is at present taking a course in agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
(The Barber Line).
(I) Thomas Barber, the emigrant, was born probably in the county of Bedfordshire, Eng- land, about 1614, died at Windsor, Connecti- cut, September 11, 1662. He came to Windsor in 1635 with a party fitted out by Sir Richard Saltonstall, under Francis Stiles, a master car- penter of London. He was the first of the
Barber name in New England. Windsor rec- ords show he was granted a lot there in 1635, where he resided. He was a sergeant in the Pequot war, and took a fort from the Indians which they considered impregnable. In 1641 he was granted about six hundred acres of land in the vicinity. He married Jane or Joan, surname not known. Among their children was Samuel, of whom further.
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas and Jane or Joan Barber, was born in Windsor, Connecti- cut, October 1, 1648. His will was proved April 4, 1709. He married Ruth Drake. Among their children was Joseph, of whom further.
(III) Joseph, son of Samuel and Ruth ( Drake) Barber, was born in Windsor, Con- necticut, 1681. He married Mary Loomis. Among their children was Daniel, of whom further.
(IV) Daniel, son of Joseph and Mary (Loomis) Barber, was born April 23, 1719. He settled in Harwinton, Connecticut, about 1746, and moved to Amenia, New York, about 1750. He married, 1741, Naomi Barber. Among their children was Elizabeth, of whom further.
(V) Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Naomi ( Barber) Barber, was born in 1749, died April 29, 1789. She married, in Harwin- ton, Connecticut, Rev. Isaiah Butler Jr., who served in the revolution (see "List & Return of Conn. Men", vol. 12, p. 6). Among their children was Rebekah, of whom further.
(VI) Rebekah, daughter of Rev. Isaiah and Elizabeth (Barber) Butler, was born in Greenbush, New York, April 7, 1779, died August 10, 1858. She married, 1802, Moses Barber, born March 14, 1773, lived in Charle- mont, Massachusetts, and died in June, 1825. He was a son of John Barber, born March 12, 1742, in Worcester, married Patience Gleason, died in Guilford, Vermont, May 27, 1776. John Barber was a son of John Barber, born about 1714, lived in Worcester, married Lydia Stimpson, and his will was proved January 7, 1777.
(VII) Rebekah, daughter of Moses and Re- bekah (Butler) Barber, was born in Charle- mont, Massachusetts, January 16, 1807, died at White's Mills, Missouri, November 19, 1881. She married, June 7, 1831, John White (see White VIII).
(The Bowen Line).
(I) Sir James Bowen, of Wales, married
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Mary, daughter of Jolin Hale, Esq. He had a son, Mathias, of whom further.
(II) Mathias, son of Sir James Bowen, of Wales, married Mary, daughter of John Phil- lips, Esq., of Pictou Castle. He had a son, James, of whom further.
(III) James (2), son of Mathias Bowen, of Wales, married Eleanor, daughter of John Griffith, Esq., of Richley, son of Sir William Griffith, Penrhyn Knight. He had a son, Richard, of whom further.
(IV) Richard, son of James (2) Bowen, was born in Wales. He came with his wife, Anne, and children to New England, in 1638; lived a short time in Salem and Boston, Mas- sachusetts, but was of Rehoboth, in 1643, where he died; buried February 4, 1675; will probated June 4, 1675. Among their children was Richard, of whom further.
(V) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) Bowen, was born in Wales, buried in Reho- both, June 4, 1678; settled with his father in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; married, March 4, 1646, Esther Sutton, died November 6, 1688. Among their children was a son John, of whom further.
(VI) John, son of Richard (2) Bowen, was born in Rehoboth, March 15, 167 -; married, in Rehoboth, September 12, 1700, Elizabeth Beckett. No record of deaths. Among their children was a son John, of whom further.
(VII) John (2), son of John (1) Bowen, was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 19, 1709; married (second) by Rev. John Greenwood, August 17, 1749, Hannah Peck, born in Rehoboth, March 10, 1726, died Sep- tember 21, 1756. Among their children was a son Bezaleel, of whom further.
(VIII) Bezaleel, son of John (2) Bowen, was born in Rehoboth, August 23, 1754. He was a sergeant in the revolution, enlisted in August, discharged in December. He was a school teacher and farmer. Married, about 1776, in Hartford, Connecticut, Mary Bradley. Among their children was a son, Daniel, of whom further.
(IX) Daniel, son of Bezaleel Bowen, was born in Bristol, Connecticut, March 10, 1785, died in Harmony, New York, May, 1863; married, June 14, 1814, Lucretia Cook, born in 1793, daughter of Titus and Silvia (Kim- ball) Cook. Among their children was a son, Daniel Washington, of whom further.
(X) Daniel Washington, son of Daniel Bowen, was born in Bristol, Connecticut, Sep-
tember 6, 1816, died in Youngsville, Pennsyl- vania, July 15, 1902; married Eliza Smith, born April 25, 1822, died in Watts Flats, Chau- tauqua county, New York, September 6, 1868. They had a daughter, Arabell, of whom fur- ther.
(XI) Arabell, daughter of Daniel Washing- ton Bowen, became the first wife of John Barber White (see White IX).
Hannah Peck, wife of John Bowen (see Bowen VII) was a daughter of Nicholas Peck, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, who was a son of Joseph Peck, also of Rehoboth. Joseph Peck was a son of Lieutenant Nicholas Peck, born in England, baptized April 9, 1630, died May 27, 1710; was an ensign in the Massa- chusetts militia, 1678; member of the council of war, 1678; lieutenant, 1682. Lieutenant Nicholas Peck was a son of Joseph Peck, the emigrant, baptized in Beccles, county Suffolk, England, April 30, 1587, died December 23, 1663, son of Robert Peck, and a descendant in the twenty-first generation from John Peck, of Belton, Yorkshire, England. Joseph Peck, the emigrant, came in the "Diligent," reaching Boston, August 10, 1638, from Ipswich, Suf- folk, England. He settled in Hingham; was representative 1639-40-41-42 ; moved to Reho- both, Massachusetts, in 1645; settled in the part now known as Seekonk Plain ; was a very active and influential citizen.
(The Siggins Line).
(I) William Siggins was of Sligo county, Ireland; he married Mary Taylor, born in Drumcliff parish, Sligo county, Ireland. Among their children was John, of whom fur- ther.
(II) John, son of William Siggins, was born in Sligo county, Ireland. He married there Sarah Hood, said to have been a near relative of Admiral Samuel Hood, of the Eng- lish navy. She was born in Leitrim county, Ireland, in 1750. In 1793 they came to Amer- ica, settling successively near Philadelphia, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and finally in Center county, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1801. She died at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 30. 1835. Among their children was Alexander, of whom further.
(111) Alexander, son of John Siggins, was born in 1793, on shipboard en route to Amer- ica. He married, November 7, 1816, in Ven- ango county, Pennsylvania, Margaret Kinnear (see Kinnear IV). He died April 7, 1858, at
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Youngsville, Pennsylvania. He and his wife were members of the Methodist church. One of their sons, Benjamin Baird Siggins, married Elizabeth Erma Walker (see Walker VII) and became the father of Emma (Siggins) White ( see White IX).
(The Kinnear Line).
(I) William Kinnear and his wife, Jane (Simpson) Kinnear, lived in Connaught par- ish, Leitrim county, Ireland.
(II) Margaret, daughter of William and Jane (Simpson) Kinnear, was born in 1760, in Leitrim county, Ireland. She married there Thomas Kinnear (probably a relative). They came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1794 or 1795. She died at Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1821.
(III) Margaret (2), daughter of Thomas and Margaret (I) (Kinnear) Kinnear, mar- ried in Pennsylvania, in 1797, Henry Kinnear (probably a relative). Henry Kinnear was a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Barow or Verow ) Kinnear. He was born in Ireland, on Easter Sunday, 1764. He was an officer in the English army (Light Horse) for about thirty years and was sent to America to pur- chase horses for the English army. After at- tending to this commission and making ship- ment of the horses to England, he took up his residence in this country. He obtained certifi- cate of naturalization in Center county, Penn- sylvania, July 17, 1803. He became a mer- chant by trade and settled in Venango county about 1814. He was one of the first commis- sioners in Warren county, becoming justice of the peace in 1816, an office he held during the remainder of his life. He was an ardent supporter of the Methodist church for many years, but on account of some difficulties was expelled from the church at one time. Seven years later he repented the course he had taken, and requested that he be reinstated as a member, and that it be known and remem- bered that he died within the pale of the church and at peace with God. He died at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1826. Among the children of Henry and Margaret ( Kinnear) Kinnear was Margaret, of whom further.
(IV) Margaret (3), daughter of Henry and Margaret (2) (Kinnear) Kinnear, was born December 1, 1801, died April 16, 1877. She married, November 7, 1816, Alexander Sig- gins (see Siggins III).
(The Walker Line).
(I) John Walker, the first of this family of whom there is definite information, lived and died in Wigton, Scotland. He married Jane McKnight. Among his children was a son John, of whom further.
(II) John (2) Walker, the emigrant, and son of John (1) Walker, was born in Wigton, Scotland. He moved with his family from Scotland to Newry, Ireland, and probably in May, 1726, sailed from Strangford Bay, land- ing in Maryland, on August 2, of that year. He settled in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he died in September, 1734. He had contemplated removing to Virginia, as did many of his relatives, and had bought a farm in Rockbridge county a short time before his death. He married, January 7, 1702, Kather- ine, daughter of John and Isabella ( Allein) Rutherford, who lived on the river Tweed in Scotland (see Allein). They afterward re- moved to county Down, Ireland, where John Rutherford died in the eighty-fourth year of his age.
(III) Alexander, son of John (2) Walker, was born May 19, 1716, died in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1784 or 1785. He served in the colonial war, and an account of his serv- ice may be found in "Va. Hist. Mag." (vol. 8, No. 3, at pages 278-9). He married Jane Hammer (or Hummer), on January 8, 1747. Among their children was James, of whom further.
(IV) James, son of Alexander Walker, was born June 29, 1751, in Virginia. He moved from Virginia to Kentucky, where he died April 12, 1800. He was one of the Virginia militia who forwarded "Sentiments" to the legislature, in October, 1776 (see "Amer. Ar- ยท chives," 5th series, vol. 2, p. 815). He mar- ried, July 8, 1778, Margaret (Peggy) Gray. Among their children was Alexander, of whom further.
(V) Alexander (2), son of James Walker, was born December 15, 1779, and grew up in Woodford county, Kentucky. He settled in Adair county, Kentucky, where he owned a farm of three hundred acres, and raised large crops of tobacco. He married Elizabeth, born April 6, 1788, in Kentucky, daughter of Sam- uel and Martha ( McCorkle) Scott. Samuel Scott was born in North Carolina, in 1762, died December 12, 1820. He served in the revolutionary war, entering the volunteer service as a minute-man. He took part in the
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battle of King's Mountain, North Carolina, as did his two brothers, William and Thomas (see "Summer's History of Southwest Vir- ginia," p. 864). He and his wife moved to Kentucky in 1783 in company with Daniel Boone, making a perilous trip and encounter- ing hostile bands of Indians. His father, John Scott, was born in Scotland, went to Ireland and fought in the Irish rebellion, losing an arm in the service. He married a Miss Thornton, evidently a Virginian, after coming to this country. Among the children of Alexander and Elizabeth (Scott) Walker was Sammuel Scott, of whom further.
(VI) Samuel Scott, son of Alexander (2) and Elizabeth (Scott) Walker, was born in Adair county, Kentucky, January 30, 1807, died January 22, 1892. When a young man he emigrated to Illinois, pushing on later to Iowa. At Fairfield, Iowa, he served as sheriff four years. He was noted for honesty and in- tegrity in all his dealings, and also for his in- terest in the civic welfare of the community. In 1840 he was appointed colonel of the state militia by Governor Dodge. He married, Jan- uary 24, 1832, Sarah Ann Allen, born and raised in Adair county, Kentucky, died in No- vember, 1882, in Cowley county, Kansas, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Tilford) Allen. William Allen was a son of Malcolm Allen, of Botetourt county, Virginia. The Chalkley Records contain an account of his colonial war service.
(VII) Elizabeth Erma, daughter of Sam- uel Scott and Sarah Ann (Allen) Walker, was born in Adair county, Kentucky, Febru- ary 20, 1833, died September 29, 1864, at Cob- ham, near Tidioute, Pennsylvania. She was educated at a young ladies' seminary in Fair- field, Iowa. She married, February 24, 1856, Benjamin Baird Siggins, born July 27, 1827, at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, died June 14, 1903, at the same place, son of Alexander and Margaret (Kinnear) Siggins (see Siggins III). He attended Allegheny College after which he studied law, and practiced for a time in Chariton, Iowa. He then moved with his family to Colorado, making the trip with teams and covered wagons, and narrowly es- caping capture by the Indians. In Colorado he engaged in mining. He also was judge of the probate court in Central City, Colorado, In 1864 the family moved to Pennsylvania where the mother, Elizabeth Erma (Walker) Siggins, died shortly after. Mr. Siggins mar-
ried as his second wife, Druzilla E. Belnap. They resided in Pennsylvania, living for a good many years at Youngsville, where Mrs. Siggins still lives. By his first marriage Mr. Siggins had the following children : Emma, of whom further ; Laura, born August 15, 1859, married, September 19, 1883, J. O. Messerly, of Warren, Pennsylvania; Clinton C., born December 31, 1862, married, April 20, 1890, at Hugo, Colorado, Nellie Cunningham, now living at Twin Falls, Idaho. By his second marriage : Albert B., born 1866, died the same year ; Lida B., born February 3, 1867, married, in 1886, George H. Hyatt, of Whitehall, New York, died June 29, 1887.
(VIII) Emma, daughter of Benjamin Baird and Elizabeth Erma (Walker ) Siggins, was born February 6, 1857, at Charlton, Iowa. She graduated from the Youngsville ( Pennsyl- vania ) high school and also from the pioneer class of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle of 1882. She subsequently taught school for ten years in Warren county, Penn- sylvania. She was married, December 6, 1882, at Youngsville, Pennsylvania, to John Barber White (see White IX). Both before and since her marriage Mrs. White has been prominent in social and club life in the vari- ous localities in which she has been resident. She has been a member of the Good Templars Lodge of Youngsville, Pennsylvania; the Athenaeum Literary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, and the "History Class of 82" of Kansas City. Mrs. White at present (1913) belongs to the C. L. S. C. Alumnae Associa- tion ; is a life member of the Kansas City His- torical Society; director in the Juvenile Im- provement Chib, and chairman of their fur- nishing committee for . the new Boys' Hotel, erected in 1911, at Kansas City, Missouri, and also chairman of their Women's Auxiliary ; is a member of the advisory board of the Fine Arts Institute of Kansas City. She was one of the organizers of the Kansas City Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and its historian for seven years, and is at present vice-regent of this organization and chairman of their patriotic education committee, which has accomplished the important work of plac- ing framed copies of the Ten Commandments in the hallways of the eighty public school buildings of Kansas City, December, 1912. She belongs to the Westminster Congregational Church of Kansas City, of which she is also a deaconess. Mrs. White is author of the
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Walker genealogy, and is at present compiling histories of the Siggins and Kinnear families.
(The Allein Line).
Tobias Allein was born about 1590. He was descended from the Alleins of Suffolk, and lived in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. He was a tradesman who was engaged by the corpora- tion to take toll of everything sold in the pub- lic market, Devizes being the great center of the wool traffic. He was a prominent citizen, his name often appearing in the town records. In 1636 he was sponsor for the equipment of a musketeer in the town train bands. Later he lent the borough three hundred pounds in the time of war. He was a "capital Burgess" of the common council, and was also a devout Puritan. He married, October 11, 1617, Eliza- beth, daughter of Edward Northie, who was four times mayor of Devizes. Children: I. Edward Allein, a clergyman, who died in his twenty-seventh year, said to be a "young min- ister of rare promise." 2. Joseph Allein, born 1633, at Devizes ; he entered Oxford at the age of sixteen ; was very studious, became in 1853 a tutor in the colloge of Corpus Christi, where he also acted as chaplain; he was assistant minister at Taunton, Magdalen, Somersetshire, from 1655 to 1662, when he was deprived for non-conformity ; he still continued to preach six or seven, and sometimes fourteen or fif- teen times a week; in 1663 he was committed to Ivelchester jail, was convicted for his preaching and remained in prison twelve months ; he then renewed his labors, but was so broken down by imprisonment that he died in 1668; he was author of "An Alarm to the Unconverted" and numerous books of a like nature; he died in 1668; he married, about 1655, Theodoshia Allein, a distant relative, who was the daughter of Richard Allein, rec- tor of Dichet, Somersetshire, for nearly fifty years; they had a daughter, Isabella Allein, who married John Rutherford, and had a daughter, Katherine, wife of John Walker (see Walker II).
RODGERS The name Rodgers or Rogers, more frequently written with- out the "d," was borne by many immigrants to the American colonies and has become very common in New Eng- land, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere in this country.
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