Excerpt from Greater Terre Haute and Vigo County, Vol. 2: Closing the First Century's History of City and County; Showing the Growth of Their People, Industries and Wealth John Nelson yvhite, whose name introduces this record, was but a young lad at the time of his parents' removal to Illinois and was there reared upon a farm in Clark county. There he acquired a com mon school education, and when not busy with his text books devoted his time and energy to the work of the fields. At the age of sixteen years, however. He left the farm and became engaged on construction work on the Vandalia Railroad. For six months he was employed as a laborer, after which he learned the' stone - cutting trade with the com pany, following that pursuit for about three years. He next entered the employ of the state of Indiana, his time being thus passed between June, 1874, and April, 1876, in assisting in the care of the insane at Indianapolis. Going thence to southwestern Kentucky, he went to work for the firm Booth, Delaney 8: Company, proprietors of a hub and spoke factory, where he learned the trade of spoke and hub turning. Eighteen months were spent in Kentucky, after which he returned to Terre Haute in the latter part of 1877. He then joined his father in the business of getting out railroad ties in southern Illinois, and the following year took up the occupation of farming in that state, continuing in active connec tion with agricultural interests for two seasons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.