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NAME WHITE 1228 WHITEHEAD degree of LL. D. His health remained vig- orous until late in the fall of 191S, when he had symptoms from a retro-abdominal tumor (sarcoma of the lumbar vertebrae) which finally terminated his life. His portrait was painted by his old and inti- mate friend, John S. Sargent, in 1907. Alfred Stengel. White, Samuel Pomeroy (1801-1867) The son of Dr. Samuel White, this surgeon was born November 8, 1801, in the city of Hudson, New York, and went as a boy to Mid- dlebury College, Vermont, and Union College, Sclienectady, N. Y., where he received an hon- orary diploma when recalled by his father to work under him. Later, two years in the medical departments of the University of New York and the University of Pennsyl- vania well fitted him to be his father's part- ner. In 1823 the Medical Society of the County of Columbia, New York, granted him a license to practise. In 1827 he had his attention called to a case of gluteal aneurysm for which he ligated the internal iliac artery, this being the second time on record the operation had been per- formed for this disease. Successful in ligating the internal iliac artery, which he termed his "darling opera- tion," it seemed a fit reward that he should be invited to the chair of surgery and ob- stetrics in the Berkshire Medical Institution, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and in 1830 that of theoretical and operative surgery. But he coveted a wider field and three years later went to New York and there was equally successful. He was singularly reluctant to appear before the public even in writing and never yielded to those who wanted some of his valuable lectures printed, yet at all times he gladly helped anyone by conversation. About ten days before death he was seized with a violent chill, the prelude to typhoid fever and he died June 6, 1867, when sixty- five years old. He married Caroline Jenkins of Hudson, who with three sons and four daughters, survived him. Davina Waterson. The Med. Reg. of New York City, 1869, vol. vii. While, William Thomas (1829-1893) William Thomas White was born in Rich- mond, Maine, July 7, 1829, the eighth in de- scent from John Rowland and Tristam Coffin, both of the Mayflower, and the eighth also from Christopher Hussy and George Bunker. He obtained his medical education in the Medi- cal School of Maine, and at the New York Medical College, graduating from the latter in 1855. He served as interne in the hospitals on Ward's and Blackwell's Islands, during that year and the next and became demonstrator of anatomy at the former school under E. R. Peaslee (q.v.). He served three and a half years as surgeon-in-chief of the Panama Rail- road, acquiring a critical knowledge of the Spanish tongue, by reason of which he after- ward became a leading physician in the Span- ish and Cuban colonies of New York, where he removed in 1865. He was attending surgeon to the Dermilt Dispensary for fifteen years, visiting surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital for three and a half, and to the City Hospital on Blackwell's Island for seventeen years. He edited the "Medical Register of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut," for fifteen years. In May, 1860, he married Eveline J., daugh- ter of Jeremiah Springer, of Litchfield, Maine, who died in 1885, leaving three daughters. Two years later he married Mary A., daughter of Captain James D. Barstow, of Bath, Maine. He died in 1893 of heart disease. For many years he was a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine ; also a member of the New York County Medical Society, and one of the founders of the Medical Society of the State of New York and of the New York County Medical Association. Med. Register of New York, 1894, vol. xxxii. Portrait. Phys. & Surgs. of the U. S., W. B. Atkinson, Indianapolis, 1878. Whitehead, Richard Henry (1865-1916) Richard Henry Whitehead, anatomist and noted teacher of anatomy, was bom in Salis- bury, North Carolina, July 27, 1865. His father, Marcellus Whitehead, was a physician; his mother's maiden name was Virginia Cole- man. He graduated at Wake Forest College, North Carolina, in 1886, and in 1887 received his M. D. at the University of Virginia. In 1910 the University of North Carolina con- ferred on him the degree of LL. D. He was demonstrator of anatomy at the university at Chapel Hill from 1887 to 1889; professor of anatomy and dean of the Medical Department, University of North Carolina, 1891-1905; professor of anatomy and dean of the Medical Department, University of Vir- ginia, Charlottesville, from 1905 until his death. Dr. Whitehead wrote "Anatomy of the Brain" (1900), and was author of anatomical and pathological papers. In 1891 he married Virgilia Whitehead, of