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.