Looking for information on this rifle's maker

[Halftrackusa]

I’m trying to find out any information I can about this rifle. The maker is H. W. White from Jackson Ohio. It weighs slightly over 12 pounds.

 

[andy52]

Other than the fact I have its brother and I haven't gleaned much info on it yet.

 

[Halftrackusa]

It’s hard to see, what do you have for a rear sight?

 

[Tanselman]

Hiram W. White worked as a gunsmith in the town of Jackson in Jackson County, Ohio. He was born in 1818 in New York and his first known advertisement as a gunsmith in Jackson, Ohio, was dated August 31, 1844. However, the 1850 census lists his oldest child Francis as 10 years old and born in Ohio, so White must have been working there by 1840. According to the census that year, he made 35 guns in the prior year. White moved to Olney, Illinois, about 1870, then sold his gun shop in 1873 and moved to South Dakota. The set of books, "Ohio Gunsmiths and Allied Tradesmen," has a good write-up on White in Vol. II, pp.207-208, and illustrates a front-action, curly maple half-stocked rifle on p.214.

Shelby Gallien

 

[Halftrackusa]

Ok thank you