African American
WHITE
Denison
| 1876-1877 |
M.W.
White (colored) is a barber on Main near
Houston Ave. between Main
& Skiddy Streets. [Source: City
Directory] |
| 1876-1877 |
Frank
M. White (colored) has a saloon on the
east side of Austin Ave. between
Main & Skiddy Streets.
[Source: City Directory] |
| 1876-1877 |
Frank
White (colored) is a barber at 207 West
Main. [Source: City Directory] |
| 1876-1877 |
Charles
Knaves (colored), barber, works at F.
White [Source: City
Directory] |
Denison Daily
News
Friday, August 30, 1878
...In
the afternoon, Mat White, a colored barber
was brought before his Honor
charged with disturbing the peace by
fighting and with resisting an
officer. It seems that Mat White
created a rumpus in Brenner's
saloon, and being ordered out, commenced to
fight Brenner and others;
also laid violent hands on the Marshal.
He requested that the
trial be continued until to-day which was
granted.
According to
the 1880 Denison census, "Mat" White is 26
years of age and was born in
1854 in the state of Missouri; his race is
listed as "Mulatto" and his
occupation is "barber". Residing in
his household are his
wife, Mary, aged 22, and four
children: daughter, Adlade, age
7; daughter, Anna, age 5; and son, Frank,
age 2 - all the children were
born in Texas.
The Sunday Gazeteer
Sunday
,October 16, 1898
pg. 4
Matt
White, the pioneer colored barber of
Denison, who married an Indian
woman, had 11 members of his family enrolled
yesterday by the Dawes
commission at Colbert.
