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Julius White (Cook County, Illinois, insurance agent and soldier)

b. 1816-09-29 d. 1890-05-12

Cook County, Illinois, insurance agent and soldier. New York native. Married to Catherine F. White. Father of Edward White, Emma White, Fremont White, Minnie White, Elizabeth White, and Henry T. White. Resident of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, in 1850. Insurance agent in Cook County in 1860. Employed Isabella Johnson as a servant in Cook County in 1860. Served in the 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from September 18, 1861 to June 1862. Served in the United States Army as a brigadier general from June 1862 to November 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Ward 1, p. 141A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Cook County, Evanston, p. 25.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, Vol. III, 1861-1866 (Springfield, Illinois: Phillips Bros., State Printers, 1901), 38.

Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861-1865: Organization and Operations, Volume I: The Eastern Theater, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), 284, 857, 868, 914.

Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861-1865: Organization and Operations, Volume II: The Western Theater, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 131, 208, 334-7.

"Julius White (1816-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial 5897115, accessed January 6, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5897115.

Citation

White, Julius. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199316 (November 12, 2026).

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