James White's Real Estate Transactions

The report spelled out the transactions relating to their homes in Battle Creek, with incomes accelerated by the financial surge accompanying the Civil War. After living some months in a rented house, by the aid of their friends they secured an acre and a half of land on which a modest home costing some $500 was built. With improvements and the increase in values he was able to sell it in 1863 for $1,500. He then secured a home nearer the publishing house, costing $1,300. Improvements and the development of an orchard and other features costing $1,200, and the rise in property value, brought this to a value of $4,500 when it was sold. He purchased a piece of land on which there was a house, a little way out of the city, investing $5,000 (Ibid., 12). It was stated:2BIO 282.2

A very large part of his entire property is thus seen to be made up of the rise of the real estate which he owned at different times during this period.—Ibid., 13.2BIO 282.3