The Infamous Isaac White

This is the only picture I have of my Great Grandfather, Isaac White, who was born in 1858 and died in 1936. Isaac was the son of George White, a Mohawk and Jane LaMiere, a French Canadian woman.

My Aunt, Ella White Peters, wrote a family history in 1977 in which she tells the story of how Isaac was convicted of the murder of a woman (the "grass widow") in 1894. He was sentenced to be electrocuted in 1895, but the sentence was commuted six days before the execution date. In prison he learned to read and write english and eventually became head assistant in the prison surgical department and also studied dentistry. Because of his good works and model behavior he was paroled in 1908.

I will scan Aunt Ella's paper and post it.