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White, Leonard

state legislator, congressman, was born in 1767 in Haverhill, Mass. He represented his town in the legislature; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1813. He died Oct. 10, 1849, in Haverhill, Mass.

White, Matthew

author. He is the author of Ascott Abroad; One of the Profession; and My Mysterious Fortune.

White, Michael D

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1827, in Clarke county, Ohio. He was elected prosecuting attorney in 1854, serving two years. He was state senator for four years from 1860; and was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fifth congress.

White, Milo

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 17, 1830, in Fletcher, Vt. He engaged in merchandising in Chatfield, Minn.; and was elected a state senator in 1871, 1872, 1874 and 1880.

He was elected a representative from Minnesota to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a republican.

White, Moses Clark

missionary, physician, author, was born July 24, 1819, in Paris, N. Y. During 1847-53 he was a missionary in China. He then established himself as a physician in New Haven, Conn. In 1857-67 he filled the chair of microscopy in Yale college. He is the author of several medical works.

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, 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, 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, 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.