- REV. B. T. WHITE, Pastor of Methodist Episcopal Church, Edgerton;
born in Cornwall,
- England, September, 1847; came to America, landing in Quebec,
Canada, in August, 1869, residing in Canada about two years,
in Adelaide Township, Sarnia Co., Ontario; came to the West in
1871, and attended college at the Northwestern University, Evanston;
ordained at the Rock River Conference in the fall of 1874. Married
Miss Ida M. HOOLBROOK, daughter of Harvey HOOLBROOK, of Walworth
Co., Wis., May 1, 1878, who was born in November, 1858; they
have one child - Ida M. They purchased the Methodist Episcopal
Church building Feb. 6, 1867; it was formerly a store; has a
congregation of about two hundred.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 850.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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