White, Bartow W – White, Henry Clay
White, Bartow W
congressman, was born in Westchester county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1825 to 1827.
White, Benjamin
agriculturist, state legislator, congressman, was born in Maine. During the years 1841 and 1842 he was a member of the Maine legislature and was a representative in congress from that state from 1844 to 1845.
White, Benjamin F
banker, governor, was born Dec. 3, 1837, in New Bedford, Mass. This successful banker and business man became governor of Montana in 1889.
White, Campbell P
merchant, congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1835; and also took a leading part in the New York convention of 1846. He died Feb. 12, 1859.
White, Carlos
author, was born in 1842 in Vermont. He is the author of Ecce Femina, an Attempt to Solve the Woman Question.
White, Catherine Ann
author, was born in 1825 in New York. She was a former superior of the convent of the Sacred Heart, New York city; and the author of The Students' Mythology; Classical Literature; and Bible Literature. She died in 1878.
White, Charles
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 28, 1795, in Randolph, Vt.
He was a congregational clergyman and educator, president of Wabash college, Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1841-61; and the author of Essays in Literature and Ethics.
He died Oct. 29, 1861, in Crawfordsville, Ind.
White, Charles Abiathar
geologist, author, was born Jan. 26, 1826, in North Dighton, Mass. He was the state geologist of Iowa in 1865-70, and on the United States geological survey from 1882.
He is the author of Report of Iowa Geological Survey; and Physical Geography of Iowa.
White, Charles Ignatius
clergyman, author, was born in 1807 in Baltimore, Md. He was a Roman catholic clergyman of Washington, long pastor of St. Matthew's church. He translated from the French Chateaubriand's Genius of Christianity; and other works. He died April 1, 1877, in Washington, D. C.
White, Chilton A
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in February, 1826, in Georgetown, Ohio. In 1852 and 1853 he was prosecuting attorney for Brown county; and in 1859 and 1860 was chosen a senator in the state legislature. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress.
White, Daniel Appleton
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 7, 1776, in Lawrence, Mass. He was a jurist of Salem, Mass.; and the author of The Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Court of Probate; New England Congregationalism in Its Origin and Purity; and Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch. He died March 30, 1861, in Salem, Mass.
White, David
lawyer, jurist, congressman. He was one of the judges of the circuit court of Kentucky; and represented that state in congress from 1823 to 1825. He died Feb. 17, 1835, in Franklin county, Ohio.
White, Edward D
congressman, governor, was born in March, 1795, in Tennessee. He was governor of Louisiana from 1824 to 1830; and was a representative in congress from 1829 to 1834, and from 1839 to 1843. He died April 18, 1847, in New Orleans, La.
White, Edward Donnell
educator, lecturer, was born May 2, 1869, in Monroe, Tenn. For four years he was president of the Fiske academy of Overton, Tenn.; and for several years was principal of the Chickasaw Male academy of Indian territory. He is a successful educator, and a brilliant lecturer; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
White, Edward Douglas
a native of Tennessee, became governor of Louisiana in 1835. In 1825 he was appointed associate judge of New Orleans; was three times elected to the lower house of congress; and served his state as governor with marked ability. He died April 18, 1847.
White, Edward Douglass
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Nov. 3, 1845, in Lafourche parish, La.
He served in the confederate army.
He was elected state senator in 1874; and was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana in 1878. He was elected to the United States senate as a democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1891; while serving his term as senator from Louisiana he was appointed in 1894 an associate justice of the supreme court.
White, Eliza Orne
author, was born in 1856 in New Hampshire. She is a writer of Brookline, Mass.; and the author of Miss Brooks; When Molly Was Six, a juvenile tale; Winterborough; A Little Girl of Long Ago; and The Coming of Theodora.
WHITE, MRS. ELLEN G. [HARMON], author. She is the author of The Spirit of Prophecy.
White, Emerson Eldridge
educator, author, was born Jan. 10, 1829, in Mantua, Ohio. He is superintendent of the Cincinnati public schools from 1883; and the author of The Elements of Pedagogy; and School Management.
White, Francis
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1813 to 1815.
White, Francis J
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born in 1842 in New York city. At one period of the war he was provost-marshal and judge advocate-general in central Missouri, and in the closing years of the contest he was governor of the eastern shore of Maryland. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865, and was offered a captaincy in the regular army, which he declined. After serving a short time in Texas he removed to St. Louis, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and elected to the legislature. He died Aug. 29, 1875, in San Francisco, Cal.
White, Frederick Edward
soldier, farmer, congressman, was born in 1844 in Prussia. In 1857 he emigrated to the United States, and located in Keokuk county, Iowa. He served gallantly through the war in the famous Crocker brigade. He subsequently bought a farm of forty acres, which has since been extended to more than four hundred acres, and is one of the best kept farms in the state of Iowa. In 1890 he was elected a member of the United States congress. In 1897 he was the nominee of the democrats, populists and free silver republicans for governor of the state of Iowa.
White, George E
soldier, lumber merchant, state senator, congressman, was born in 1848 in Massachusetts. He served under General Grant in the army of the Potomac, from the battle of the Wilderness until the surrender of General Lee. He is head of the extensive hardwood lumber firm of George E. White and Co. of Chicago, Ill. He has served as alderman of Chicago and as state senator.
He was elected to the fifty-fourth and reelected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
White, George Henry
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 1852, in Rosendale, N. C. He was principal of one of the state normal and other schools in the state. He was elected to the house of representatives in 1880 and to the state senate in 1884. He was elected solicitor and prosecuting attorney for the second judicial district of North Carolina for four years in 1886, and for a like term in 1890. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. For six years he was grand master of Masons of North Carolina.
White, George Savage
clergyman, author, was born April 12, 1784, in England. He was the author of Christian Memorial; Containing God's Abundant Grace and Provincial Kindness to the Author; Memoir of Samuel Slater; and History of Manufactures. He died March 3, 1850. a
White, George W
clergyman, college president, was born Feb. 18, 1858, in Valparaiso, Ind. He was ordained clergyman of the methodist episcopal church in Iowa; has filled important pastorates in the southern California conference; and is presiding elder of the Los Angeles district. He is also the president of the university of Southern California.
White, Greenough
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1863 in Massachusetts. He was professor of English at the university of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., in 1885-87, and professor of ecclesiastical history and polity there from 1894. He is the author of Sketch of the Philosophy of American Literature; The Rise of Papal Supremacy; and Outline of the Philosophy of English Literature.
White, Harry
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 12, 1834, in Indiana county, Pa. In 1861 he entered the union army as a major, and served throughout the war, attaining the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general.
While in service was elected a state senator from Pennsylvania, and served during the session of 1862-63, returning to his command at the close of the session. He was re-elected to the state senate for three years in 1865, again in 1868, and again in 1871, serving as speaker during the close of the latter term. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.
White, Henry
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 3, 1790, in Wilbraham, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Maine and New Hampshire, who published The Early History of New England. He died Dec. 8, 1858, in Garland, Maine.
White, Henry
theologian, was born June 19, 1800, in Durham, N. Y. He founded the Union Theological seminary and was elected its first professor of systematic theology, which position he held until his death. He died Aug. 25, 1850, in New York city, N. Y.
White, Henry Clay
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 23, 1839, in Newburgh, Ohio. He is one of the leading lawyers of Cleveland, Ohio, where he is judge of the probate court.
White, Henry Clay
chemist, author, was born Dec. 30, 1850, in Baltimore, Md. He was the state chemist of Georgia from 1880; and the author of Complete History of the Cotton Plant; and Elementary Geology of Tennessee.