Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — ROSE TO HONORS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROSE TO HONORS.

Former Section Hand Appointed Judge on Illinois Bench. Frederick G. White, who has just, at the age of 30, been appointed County Judge of Livingston County, Illinois, to fill the unexpired term of Judge Brickman, resigned, was a few years ago a section hand on a railroad. Judge White was born of poor parents and earned money for a college term by tamping the ties of the Chicago and Alton railroad. He was educated at the Illinois State Normal University, taught school for a time, served as

city clerk and deputy circuit clerk, and in 1898 was admitted to the bar.

Judge White.