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Show Beaver Stake Personality nanes D. White was an active pioneer and stalwart citizen of Beaver. For over 81 years he lived a life of loyal service to his church, community and home. He was born September 10, 1851 in Lehi, Utah; the fifth child in a family of nine born to Sam -uel Dennis and Mary Hannah Burton White. The Whites were early peo-neers peo-neers to Southern Utah and went through all the hardships hard-ships concurrent with the early settlements. Charles D.'s parents were called by the church to help settle Cedar Ce-dar City when he was just two years old. They moved to Beaver In 1859. He resided re-sided there until his death In 1933. Family responsibility was placed upon Charles at a very early age. He was trusted to herd sheep at the age of ten. He wore his father's number ten hand-me-down shoes for this occupation. At this age he could handle han-dle a four horse team. At twelve he helped to scout and guard against Indians. At sixteen he was called by Bishop John R. Murdock to drive a six-horse team across the plains to the No. Platte River for a load of Immigrants who he brought safely to Utah. a cast donation of $100 each year to the Academy, as well as spending much time in the administration of its affairs af-fairs and in general solicitation solici-tation for help from others to keep the school progressing and in operation. He was ever a patron of educational education-al moves in Beaver. The business and civic life of Brother White was varied. He was connected connect-ed with almost every cooperative coop-erative establishment attempted at-tempted in this section. He was president of the First National Bank for many years and served as County Com -missioner for two years. " He was married to Mary Ann Greenwood on May 24, 1875. They were the parents of nine children, five of them preceeded him in death. He married Margaret Gillies Gil-lies in 1884 in plural marriage. mar-riage. They had four children. chil-dren. It was characteristic of President White to shirk no responsibility. He always did what he thought to be right and honest. His common maxim was, "Two wrongs never make a right." His father died suddenly while attending conference in Salt Lake City when Charles was only seventeen. The re -sponsibility of providing for a family of three wives and eleven ele-ven children was left on the boys shoulders. He accepted accept-ed the responsibility and neglected ne-glected no one. In August 1977, at the age of 26, he was called to be Bishop of the Beaver First ward. He was away from home on a freighting trip at the time. When he return - ' v . ...Vy Charles D. White ed home his remark was, "If I had been here I would have refused, I guess. Glad I wasn't here." He served as Bishop for 14 years, during which time the old Assem -bly Hall and the Park buildings build-ings were built by donation. He was made president of Beaver LDS Stake in 1891. He filled this position creditably cred-itably for 17 years. When he was 75 years old he was made a Patriarch. He was most sincere in this position. The founding of the Beaver Branch of the BYU which later la-ter became the Murdock Academy, was the outstanding outstand-ing project of his administration adminis-tration as Stake President. For over ten years he made |