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White, Frederick Edward

soldier, farmer, congressman, was born in 1844 in Prussia. In 1857 he emigrated to the United States, and located in Keokuk county, Iowa. He served gallantly through the war in the famous Crocker brigade. He subsequently bought a farm of forty acres, which has since been extended to more than four hundred acres, and is one of the best kept farms in the state of Iowa. In 1890 he was elected a member of the United States congress. In 1897 he was the nominee of the democrats, populists and free silver republicans for governor of the state of Iowa.