Barclay White Diaries

Barclay White (1821-1906), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the son of Rebecca Smith White and Joseph White. He attended various Quaker Boarding Schools In 1842, White purchased a farm in New Jersey and married his first wife, Rebecca Merritt Lamb (1824-1850), whom he had four children with: Howard (b. 1844), Joseph Josiah (b. 1846) George F. (b. 1847), and Barclay (b. 1850). After the death of Lamb, he married Beulah Sampson Shreve in 1853 and had three children: Daniel (b. 1853), Elizabeth (b. 1857), and James (b. 1859). White was active in the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friend. In 1871, under President Ulysses S. Grant, White accepted a position as superintendent of the Northern Superintendency in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1878, When the position office closed, he continued working as a “Friends Special Indian Agent." White went back to his farm in Burlington, New Jersey and opened up a real estate and insurance office in Mount Holly, New Jersey.