Shortly after his birth, his father, Horace White, a twenty-six-year-old Dartmouth physician, became an agent of the New England Emigration Company, which outfitted wagon trains for travel westward. In the winter of 1836, Dr. White moved to the Midwest prairies with a wagon train to provide medical services to the settlers. Two years later his wife, Eliza, and two sons joined him, and they lived in the first log cabin on the site of Beloit, Wisconsin. By 1839 Beloit had become a thriving village of 200 people.
When Horace White was nine years old, his father died. In 1845 his mother married Samuel Hinman, a widower who was recognized as a stern puritan and a pillar in the Presbyterian churches of Wisconsin. White's father had been a founder of the city of Beloit; his stepfather was a founder of Beloit College.
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