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'''Elisha White''' was among the earliest European settlers on land that would become the city of [[Little Rock]], Arkansas. White purchased the preemption claim of [[William Lewis]] for ten dollars in 1812 and then resold it two years later for forty dollars to another pioneer [[Wright Daniels]], who in turn sold it to [[Reuben Blunt]] who sold it to [[Benjamin Murphy]]. The claim was eventually purchased by a group of investors led by St. Louis speculator [[William Russell]].

White did not settle permanently in the Little Rock area. The first permanent settler was [[Edmund Hogan]] who arrived in 1818.

==References==

*Dallas Tabor Herndon, ''Centennial History of Arkansas'' (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1922), 820.
*Ira Don Richards, ''Story of a Rivertown: Little Rock in the Nineteenth Century'' (1969), 6.

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