E. Martin White
1870 - Feb 1964
diedArizona, USA
bornMissouri, USA
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BiographyCame to Tempe c1918.Dairy farmer and school teacher.
He moved from Davis, California, to Phoenix in 1908. He purchased 150 acres along 56th Street, and several acres on the north side of the Salt River, west of the Mill Avenue Bridge.
Shareholder in the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company in 1923; owned 36 acres in section 23, T.1 N.,R.4 E., in 1924. About 1918, he bought property between Tempe and Mesa from M. H. Meyer and J. H. Guyer. He built the White Dairy Barn (1810 E. Apache Blvd.), 1918-1920, and used the property as a dairy farm until 1927, when the property was subdivided for sale. He moved to Tempe so that his children could attend the Tempe Normal School.
Lived at 940 N. Mill Avenue In 1931, -'32 had a PO box.
Federal census (Tempe), 1910
HPS-201; HPS-191; HPS-1006; TH-231
Thomson, "The White Residence" (ASU, 1974)
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1940
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe Tempe CD 1931, -'32
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