Agnes Ward White was the wife of former Governor of West Virginia Albert B. White

Albert B. White

Albert Blakeslee White was the 11th Governor of West Virginia from 1901 to 1905.White was educated in the public schools of Columbus, Ohio. In 1878, he graduated from Marietta College. In 1879, he married Agnes Ward...

 and served as that state's First Lady

First Lady

First Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state.It is not normally used to refer to the spouse or partner of a prime minister; the husband or wife of the British Prime Minister is usually informally referred to as prime...

, 1901-1905. She was born in 1857 at Marietta, Ohio

Marietta, Ohio

Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Ohio, United States. During 1788, pioneers to the Ohio Country established Marietta as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory. Marietta is located in southeastern Ohio at the mouth...

. In 1879, she married Albert B. White

Albert B. White

Albert Blakeslee White was the 11th Governor of West Virginia from 1901 to 1905.White was educated in the public schools of Columbus, Ohio. In 1878, he graduated from Marietta College. In 1879, he married Agnes Ward...

. The Whites lived at Parkersburg, West Virginia

Parkersburg, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 33,099 people, 14,467 households, and 8,767 families residing in the city. In 2006 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Parkersburg's population had decreased 4.4% to 31,755. The population density was 2,800.5 people per square mile . There were 16,100 housing...

, where Albert was publisher of the State Journal. She was one of the more private first ladies and shunned the role of hostess. After leaving office, the Whites returned to Parkersburg, where she died in 1943.