White, Octavius Augustus – Whiteaker, John
White, Octavius Augustus
physician, author, was born Feb. 8, 1826, in Charleston. He first introduced the practice of superficial incisions within the os uteri for the relief of stenotic dysmenorrhœa. He also invented the hysterotome, an instrument for practicing safe incision within the neck of the womb; also novel instruments for the cure of hernia and varicocele, and a new form of laryngoscope. He is the author of Report on the Yellow Fever Epidemic of Wilmington, N. C.; Varicocele and Its Radical Cure; Report on the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Savannah, Ga.
White, Peter
lawyer, banker, legislator, was born Oct. 31, 1830, in Rome, N. Y. For several years he lived in Mackinac and Detroit, and in 1849 moved to Marquette, then called Worcester, and has resided there continuously since.
In 1852 he embarked in business for himself as general storekeeper and private banker. The store business was dropped, but an insurance agency was added; and in 1863 he incorporated his bank as the First National bank, of which he is president to this day. He has been prominently identified with various manufacturing and mining corporations. During the war he raised company B, first regiment Michigan cavalry, and was elected its captain. He has held several federal and state appointments; was postmaster in 1851; and has been collector of customs and register of the land office.
In 1857 he was a representative in the Michigan state legislature; and in 1875 he served with distinction as a state senator. He has been prominently identified with the public interests of Marquette, and the public library called by his name is in a building given by him, and several thousand books were donated by him to begin it. He has been a special master in chancery in United States courts' matters where millions were involved; has been a lawyer for ten years and a banker for forty years.
White, Phillips
congressman, was born about 1730 in New Hampshire. He was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress in 1782 and 1783.
He died about 1783 in New Hampshire.
White, Phineas
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1770 in Hampshire county, Mass. He was register of probate in the town of Pomfret, Vt., from 1800 to 1809; and was county attorney in 1813. He served eight years in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1821 to 1823. He died in 1847.
White, Pliny Holton
clergyman, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 6, 1822, in Springfield, Conn. He was a unitarian clergyman of Coventry, Vt., but prior to 1859 a lawyer there; and was the author of History of Coventry. He died April 24, 1869, in Coventry, Vt.
White, Richard Edward
poet, was born in 1843 in Ireland. He is a writer of San Francisco, Cal.; and the author of a volume of poems entitled The Cross of Monterey.
White, Richard Grant
scholar, author, poet, was born May 22, 1821, in New York city. He was an eminent Shakespearean scholar of New York city.
His critical twelve-volume edition of Shakespeare appeared in 1865, and the Riverside edition in 1883. His original works comprise Words and Their Uses; Every-Day English; England Without and Within; Biographical and Critical Handbook of Christian Art; Shakespeare's Scholar; Memoirs of Shakespeare; Studies in Shakespeare; The New Gospel of Peace, a political satire; Revelations: a Companion to The New Gospel of Peace; The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys, novel; The Fall of Man, or the Loves of the Gorillas; The American View of the Copyright Question; and The Chronicles of Gotham. He died April 8, 1885, in New York city. a
White, Mrs. Rhoda Elizabeth
[WATERMAN], author, was born in 18-, She is the author of Portraits of My Married Friends; From Infancy to Womanhood, a Book for Young Mothers; and What Will the World Say? a novel.
White, Robert Gray
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 21, 1807, in Selin's Grove, Pa. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1838, treasurer of Tioga county in 1841 and 1843, and elected president judge of the fourth judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1851 and 1861, retiring in 1871. He died Sept. 6, 1875, in Millsboro, Pa.
White, Rufus A
clergyman, reformer, was born Nov. 24, 1857, in Franklin, Pa. He was fitted for college at the collegiate institute of Towanda, Pa.; entered Tuft's college in 1879; spent six years in the Divinity school and department of letters; and subsequently traveled extensively in Europe. For eight years he was pastor of the Universalist church of Newton, Mass.; and since 1892 he has been pastor of the Stewart Avenue Universalist church of Chicago, Ill. He has been a member of the school board and president of associated charities. He has been actively connected with the Civic Federation; and organized the Chicago penny savings system, of which he is chairman. He is one of the editors of The New Unity, the organ of the liberal congress of religion; and contributes extensively to current literature.
White, Samuel
United States senator, was born in 1770 in Wilmington, Del. He was a United States senator from Delaware from 1801 until his death. He died Nov. 4, 1800, in Wilmington, Del.
White, Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth
[JOY], journalist, author, was born in 18- in Maine. She is a Boston journalist; and the author of Housekeepers and Homemakers; and Business Openings for Girls.
White, Shubbel F
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born June 17, 1841, in Marshall, Mich. He attended Olivet college; graduated in 1864 from the university of Michigan; and from the Albany Law school three years later. During the war he was captain of company A, twenty-eighth regiment Michigan volunteer infantry. In 1873-74 he was circuit judge; and in 1883 served with distinction as state senator in the Michigan state legislature. He is now one of the foremost lawyers of Minnesota at Duluth; and takes a prominent part in public and political affairs.
White, Stephen Mallory
lawyer, United States senator, was born Jan. 19, 1853, in San Francisco, Cal. In 1874 he commenced practicing law in Los Angeles county, Cal., where he has since resided; and in 1882 he was elected district attorney of his county. In 1886 he was elected to the state senate for the term of four years, and was chosen president pro tempore of the senate during both sessions of his incumbency. In 1888 he discharged the functions of lieutenant-governor. He was also a delegate-at-large to the national convention in 1892. He took his seat as United States senator March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.
White, Stephen Van Gulen
lawyer, banker, broker, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1831, in Chatham county, N. C. In 1856 he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he was actively engaged in the practice of law till 1865, when he removed to New York city. He became a member of the New York stock exchange, and has been engaged as banker and broker ever since. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
White, William
clergyman, bishop, author, was born April 4, 1748, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania; and for nearly sixty years he ruled his growing diocese, and for forty years was senior and presiding bishop; and the author of Memoir of the Episcopal Church; Lectures on the Catechism; and Comparative View of the Controversy Between Calvinists and Arminians. He died July 17, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa.
White, William Allen
journalist, author, was born in 1868 in Emporia, Kan.
He is now editor and owner of the Emporia Gazette in Emporia, Kan. He is the author of The Real Issue; and also a clever book of Kansas Stories.
White, William Charles
lawyer, dramatist, author, was born in 1777 in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer and dramatist of Worcester, Mass.; and the author of The Country Cousin; The Poor Lodger; and Compendium of the Laws of Massachusetts. He died May 2, 1818, in Worcester, Mass.
White, William J
agriculturist, banker, manufacturer, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1850, in Canada. He owns large vessel interests, and is interested largely in banking, farming, stock-raising, and various other business enterprises.
He was elected mayor of West Cleveland as a republican in 1889; and was elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican.
White, William Jones
railroad president, was born Oct. 7, 1842, in Warrenton, N. C. Since 1885 he has been president of the Warrenton railroad at Warrenton, N. C.
White, William N
bookseller, author, was born in 1819 in Walton, N. Y. He was a bookseller of Athens, Ga., who edited The Southern Cultivator. He was the author of Gardening for the South; and Scientific Gardening. He died July 9, 1867, in Athens, Ga.
Whiteaker, John
lawyer, jurist, state senator, governor, was born May 4, 1820, in Dearborn county, Ind. He was elected a judge of probate in 1855; a representative in the territorial legislature in 1857; and governor of the new state of Oregon in 1858, holding that office until 1862. He was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1866; re-elected in 1868, and was made speaker; and again re-elected in 1870. In 1876 he was elected state senator for four years; and was president of the senate in 1876 and 1878.
He was elected a representative from Oregon to the forty-sixth congress.