Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-10-22
Old White Ranch Near Buffalo is
Favorite Meeting Place For Ubet
Pioneers EARLY Days Are Recalled

continued his practice until 1895. when
the business of building up a purebred
Rambouillet sheep ranch demanded all
his time. The political training OF his
early years stood him in good stead.
He was born in Allegheny county. N.
Y, where republicans are thick. and
democrats hard to find. There were only
about 60 democratic votes in the en-
tire county, and when B. c. was a lad,
it was his business to get those votes
out. He learned TO hustle. Eventually he
was graduated from the Mansfield, Pa.
Normal college, finished a law course,
and was admitted to the bar. He prac-
ticed in Elmira, N. Y. He got his polit-
ical training in a good school, as Cap
tain of the David B. Hill Marching
club. He chuckles as he recalls the
clubs uniforms-grey top hats and grey
Prince Alberts. for the organization was
a very nifty one. indeed. He was elect
ed police magistrate of Elnira, winning
against apparently impregnable oppo-
sition by a margin Of so votes-pretty
good in a county where the opposition
was five to one in strength. After Serv-
ing as police magistrate for -four years.
he became the head Of the Elmira state
reformatory, supervising 10000 inmates.
It was impossible for him to keep out
of politics in Montana. For five con-
secutive terms Mr.. White served in the
state legislature, entering the house IN
1917; when, it happened, four OF the
"bunch-grass fellows held the balance
of power. He was made chairman of the
important appropriations committee, to
the indignation of oldtimers who saw
a new man walk away with a coveted
political plum. To Mr.. White goes the
credit for the first herd law ever passed
in Montana, the tax-commlSslon Dill,
which he proposed and assisted In
drafting; the hay-grading act, passed
in response to farmers demands, n
many ether well-conSidered measures.
Gov. Robert B. Smith appointed him
superintendent of the Montana State
Reform school at Miles City, where he
served three years. He has several times
served as sheep commissioner, and for
II wears was a member of the Fergus
County High school board. During the
World war he left his ranch TO serve
for a year on the district board at
Great Falls.
Mr.. White was married before COM
ing to Montana. His wife, Isadore Nc
Clave White, is a native Of New York.
She is a sister of Charles r. McClave
of Great Falls, and Mrs. Perrine OF Bill
lings. Their son. Captain Harold Nc
Clave White, is now general manager
of his fathers ranch. He is a graduate
of West Point. Serving as a captain oil
infantry in the regular army when the
great wal opened, he vent to France
with the first quota Of General Per-
shing's expedition. He served in france
two years, and was with. the German
army Of occupation, but resigned an
excellent appointment, after his return,
to carry on the business his father
founded.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whites eldest daughter.
Antoinette White, is the proprietor and
head of the Antoinette White Clinic at
the Huntington hotel, Pasadena, Cali
fornia. Their younger daughter, Ell
little daughters, Jean and Nancy Baker,
lives in Los Angeles,
At the last annual meeting Of the
Ubet Pioneers, June 20, 1881, four hun
bred persons were welcomed at the
| White ranch and shared its hospital
ity. One hundred fourteen eligible mem
bers of the society paid their dues, and
submitted to Mr.. White a request that
he represent them in Butte, during the
August meeting Of the Society Of Mon
tana Pioneers, to further their afflia-
ton with that parent body.