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Rh in 1825-'9, and of the Presbyterian church at Cazenovia, N. Y., in 1829-'33. From 1834 till 1841 he was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Owego, N. Y., and from 1841 till 1861 he was president of Wabash college, Crawfordsville, Ind. He re- ceived the degree of D. D. from Union in 1840. Besides many sermons, he published "Essays in Literature and Ethics" (Boston, 1853).

WHITE, Charles Abiathar, geologist, b. in North Dighton, Mass., 26 Jan., 1826. He removed to Iowa in 1839, and was graduated at Rush medical college in 1863. Three years later he be- came state geologist of Iowa, which appointment he held until 1870, and in 1807-73 he was professor of natural history in the Iowa state university. In 1873 he was called to the same chair in Bowdoin, but he resigned two years later, and during 1874 was geologist and palaeontologist to the U. S. geographi- cal and geological surveys west of the 100th me- ridian under Lieut. George M. Wheeler. He then passed to the service of the survey under Maj. John W.. Powell in 1875, and in 1876 to that under Fer- dinand V. Hayden, with whom he remained until 1879. Dr. White had charge of the palaeontologi- cal collections in the U. S. national museum in 1879-'82, and in 1881 was detailed to act as chief of the artesian wells commission upon the Great Plains under the auspices of the U. S. agricultural department. Since 1882 he has been connected with the U. S. geological survey, first as geologist, and since 1883 as palaeontologist in charge of the division of mesozoic invertebrates. His knowl- edge of his specialty has gained for him a reputa- tion as an authority that is unequalled in certain branches of fossil life. The degree of A. M. was conferred on him by Iowa college, and he holds an honorary curatorship in the U. S. national muse- um. He is a member of scientific societies, was president of the Biological society of Washington in 1883-'4, and was elected a vice-president of the American association for the advancement of science in 1888. His writings include nearly 200 papers, of which the most important are included in the reports of the various surveys with which he has been connected, also a work on the cretaceous invertebrates of Brazil, which were collected by the Imperial geological commission, under the direc- tion of the late Charles F. Hartt, to form vol. vii. pf the "Archives of the Brazilian National Museum "(Rio de Janeiro, 1887). See " Annotated Catalogue of the Published Writings of Charles Abiathar White, 1860-1885," by John B. Marcou (Washington, 1885).

WHITE, Charles Ignatius, R. C. clergyman, b. in Baltimore, Md., in 1807; d. in Washington, D. C, 1 April, 1877. He was graduated at St. Mary's college, Baltimore, in 1823, and became a Roman Catholic priest. He was at the time of his death, and had been for twenty years preceding, the pastor of St. Matthew's church in Washing- ton, D. C. He edited the " Catholic Almanac " in 1834-'57, and founded and edited the " Religious Cabinet " in 1842, a monthly magazine, which was replaced in 1843 by the " United States Catholic Magazine." This again was replaced in 1849 by a weekly paper, the "Catholic Mirror." He trans- lated and edited Jaime Lucio Balmes's "Protestant- ism and Catholicity compared in their Effects on the Civilization of Europe " (New York, 1850) ; also Chateaubriand's "Genius of Christianity" (1856); and wrote a " Life of Mrs. Eliza A. Seton " (1853).

WHITE, Daniel Appleton, jurist, b. in the part of Methuen which is now Lawrence, Mass., 7 June. 1776; d. in Salem, Mass., 30 March, 1861. He was graduated at Harvard in 1797, was teacher of the Medford grammar-school in 1797-'9 and Latin tutor in Harvard in 1799-1803. He began the study of law at Cambridge, was admitted to the bar in 1804, and engaged in practice in New- buryport, where he resided till January. 1817, when he removed to Salem. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1810-15, was chosen to congress in 1814, but declined to serve, and was elected judge of probate of Essex county, Mass.. which office he held for thirty-eight years. He was for many years an active member of the Essex institute, to which he gave 8,000 volumes, and of the Massachusetts historical society. Judge White was the author of a "Eulogy on George Washing- ton" (Haverhill, 1800); " View of the Jurisdiction of the Court of Probate in Massachusetts" (Sa- lem, 1822) ; " Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch " (1822); and "New England Congregationalism, in its Origin and Purity " (1861); and aided John Pickering in preparing his edition of Sallust (1805). See a memoir of Judge White by James Walker, written for the Massachusetts historical society (1863), and also one by George W. Briggs for the Essex institute (1864).

WHITE, David Nye, journalist, b. in Ware- ham, Mass., 22 Aug., 1805; d. in Sewickley, Pa., 1 April, 1888. He was descended from Peregrine White, and his father, Ebenezer, served through the Revolutionary war. He removed with his parents to Ohio soon after the war of 1812; was a printer in Canton, Ohio, and Rochester, N. Y., in December, 1827, removed to Pittsburg, Pa., and in 1841 purchased the Pittsburg " Gazette," of which he was also editor. He was opposed to slavery, and, despairing of accomplishing anything to bene- fit the slaves through the existing political parties, he published a call in 1855 for a county conven- tion to form a new party. The call had few sign- ers, but, when the convention met, every district in the county was represented by a duly elected dele- gate. A ticket was nominated, and from this beginning, it is claimed, sprang the Republican party. Mr. White was collector of internal revenue of the 23d district of Pennsylvania for four years, a member of the state house of representatives three years, and a delegate at large to the Consti- tutional convention of 1873-'4.

WHITE, Edward Douglas, statesman, b. in Tennessee in March, 1795; d. in New Orleans, La., 18 April, 1847. He removed with his father, James, who was subsequently appointed judge of western Louisiana, to Attakapas parish, La., in 1799. He was educated at the University of Tennessee, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began to practise at Donaldsonville, but, on being appointed to a judgeship in New Orleans, he removed thither. He was elected to congress for three consecutive terms, and served from 7 Dec., 1829, till 15 Nov., 1834, when, having been elected governor, he resigned. He was governor of Louisiana in 1834-'8, afterward removed to a sugar-plantation near Thibodeaux, and was again elected as a Whig to congress, serving from 2 Dec., 1839, till 3 March, 1843. He was on the steamer &ldquo;Lioness&rdquo; when she was set on fire by an explosion of gunpowder, 19 May, 1833, and narrowly escaped death. &mdash; His son, Edward Douglas, jurist, b. in Lafourche parish, La., 3 Nov., 1845, was educated at Mt. St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, Md., and the Jesuit's college in New Orleans. During the civil war he served in the Confederate army. He then studied and practised law, was a state senator in 1874-'8, and judge of the Louisiana supreme court in 1878-'80, and on 29 May, 1888, was elected U. S. senator for the term beginning on 4 March, 1889.