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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, 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 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, 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.

White, Henry Kirke

lawyer, was born Feb. 14, 1864, in Afton, Va., in sight of Stratford, the home of the Lees, and not far from Wakefield, the birthplace of Washington. He received a thorough education in the university of Texas, and in 1887 commenced the practice of law in Birmingham, Ala., and has since attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers of the south.

White, Horace

journalist, author, was born Aug. 10, 1834, in Colebrook, N. H. He was editor of the Chicago Tribune in 1864-74, and since 1883 one of the editors of The New York Evening Post. He is the author of The Silver Question; The Tariff Question; Coin's Financial Fool; Money and Banking Illustrated by American History; and The Gold Standard.