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Charles W. White was the seventh Mayor of Princeton and served
from
1902-1904.
Charles W. White was born in DeGonia Springs, Indiana on November 5, 1855. He was the son of Robert and Lydia Jane White, and was schooled in Warrick County common schools.
On November 4, 1877 he was united in marriage to Miss Glaura Vina Barrett of DeGonia, with the wedding taking place at the old DeGonia Hotel.
Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. White went to Warsaw, Missouri where they made their home for several years; at that time Charles White was a traveling salesman for George S. Sonntag and Company of Evansville.
After a few years Charles White and his wife returned to Indiana and made Oakland City their home for the next nine years. White opened a general hardware store in Oakland City and became politically active in local government. White was elected City Councilmen in Oakland City. From Oakland City the Whites moved to Princeton, where Charles White opened a lumber company on south Main Street.
In 1902 Charles White was elected as a democrat to become Princeton's seventeenth Mayor. White inherited a $22,000 deficit in the City coffers and in short time wiped out the shortfall and put the City back in good standing.
In 1916 the Democratic Party nominated him State Senator of Gibson and Posey Counties. White was always an ardent Democrat and took a keen interest in public affairs.
Charles was a builder and loved to see activity, when he moved back to Boonville in1918 he started building a number of rental houses to rent. The depression took quite a toil on Mr. White and he nearly lost every thing he owned, which was very depressing to him, nearing the age of retirement and after have a successful business most of his life.
White was a member of the Princeton Elk's, Odd Fellows Lodge and the Methodist Church. Charles White died on July 8, 1934 in Boonville Indiana and was laid to rest in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Princeton.
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