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White, Andrew Dickson

educator, state senator, author, was born Nov. 7, 1832, in Homer, N. Y. In 1857 he was elected professor of history in the university of Michigan; and in 1862 was elected a member of the New York state senate; and was re-elected in 1864. In 1867-85 he was president of the Cornell university; and in 1871 was one of the government commissioners to St. Domingo. He was appointed United States minister to Germany in 1879-81; and to Russia in 1892; and appointed ambassador to Germany in 1897. He is the author of Lectures on Mediæval and Modern History; The New Germany; History of the Doctrine of Comets; European Schools of History and Politics; Studies in General History; Paper Money Inflation in France; and The Warfare of Science with Theology.