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Theological Education in Harvard college, and first presiilent of tlio Salem Lyceum and of the Essex Institute. He is the author of: ^1 View of the JnrisiUction ami Proceed i nys of the Court of Probate in Massactiusetts (\S'2'2); yew England Congregationalism (ISGl); also eulogies on George Washington (ISOK), Xathanicl Boirditch (1838), and John Pickering (1SI7). and addresses. He died in Salem. Mass.. March:U). 18G1.

WHITE, Edward Douglass, governor of Louis- iana, wjus l)orn in Naslivillo. TiMin., in March, 1795; son of Judge James White. He removed with his parents to Attakapas Parish, La., in 1T'J9, upon his father's appointment as judge of western Louisiana; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the University of Tennes.see. He was admitted to the bar, and prac- tised law in Donaldson vilk", La. He was made judge of the city court, 1825; was a Whig repre- sentative from Louisiana in the 21st-23d con- gresses, 18'29-34, resigning on November 15 of the latter year to become governor of the state, serv- ing until 1838. He was returned to the 2Cth and 27th congresses, 1839-43, and subsequently re- tired to his sugar estate in La Fourche parish, La. He was married to a Miss Ringgold. He died at New Orleans. La.. Ai)ril 8, 1847.

WHITE, Edward Douglass, jurist, was born in La Fourche parish, La., Nov. 3, 1845; son of Edward Douglass AVhite (q.v.). He at- tended Mount St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, Md., the Jesuit college at New Orleans, La., and was graduated A.B. from Georgetown (D.C.) college. He served as a private in the Confederate army; subsequently studied law; was ad- mitted to the Louis- iana bar in Decem- ber, 1808, and began practice in Louisiana. He was state senator, 1874-78; associate justice of the su- preme court of Louis- iana, 1878-91, and elected U.S. senator by the Republican party in 1890 for the term expiring, March 3, 1897, but re.signed, Feb. 19, 1894, upon his aiipointment as associate justice of the U.S. supreme court. He declined an ap- pointment from President McKinley to serve as a member of the Peace commission in 1898.

WHITE, Edwin, arti.st, was born in South Had], y. Mass.. May 21. 1817. His arti.stic talent manifested itself at an early age. He was made an associate of the National Academy of Design,

1848, and an Academician, 1849; continued his studies abroad, 1850-54 and 1869-75, and in the latter year located in New York citj'. His paint- ings, many of them representing historical sub- jects, include: in Age's lieivry in the U.S. Mili- tary academy (1847); Washington Resignirig his Commission, now the property of the state of Maryland; Milton's Visit to Galileo; Old Age of Milton (1848); Requiem of DeSoto; Pocahontas informing Smith of the Conspiracy of the Indians; First Printing of the Bible; Evening Hymn of the Huguenots; Giotto sketching the head of Dante: Chapel in Church of St. ^egidius, Nu- remberg; Cafe at Cairo; Moonlight on the Arno; Antiquary, in the Metropolitan museum of New York city; Leonardo da Vinci and his Pujnls. at Amherst college (18G8), where his unfinished can- vas of the Signing of the Compact of the May- flower also hangs, the last tlnee i)aintings, bequests of the artist; Murillo Sketching the Beggar Boy, Museum of Fine Aits, Boston (1868): Interior of the Bargello, Florence (1875). He died in Sara- toga Springs, N.Y., June 7, 1877.

WHITE, Edwin, naval officer, was born in Ohio, in 1843; son of Lyman and Louise (Morrill) White; grandson of John and Fear (Perry) White and of Dudley and Sarah Sargent (Pattee) Morrill, and a descendant of John White of Taunton, who married Hannah Smith, Feb. 24, 1669. and died, Sept, 3, 1726. He entered the U.S. Naval acad- emy, Nov. 29, 1861; was graduated midshipman November, 1864; was attached to the receiving- ship Vermont, New York navy yard, 1805; and to the Colorado and Shamrock, European station, 1865-66 and 1867-68, respectively, being com- missioned ensign, Nov. 1. 1860. He was promoted master, Dec. 1, lieutenant, March 12, 1868; .served as navigator on the Yantic in the West Indies, 1868-69, and promoted lieutenant-conmiander, Sept. 15, 1869. He was married in 1870 to An- tonia Thornton, daughter of Admiral George Foster (q.v.) and Frances Antonia (Thornton) Emmons of Princeton, N. J. He served in the hydrographic office of the navy department, 1870; at the Naval academy and Philadelphia navy j-ard. 1870-71, and was ordered as executive officer to the U.S. steamer Kansas in September, 1871. At Greytown, Nicaragua, in 1872; the command of the .ship devolved upon Lieutenant- Commander White, and in that capacity he suc- ce.ssfully convoj'ed the American steamer Vir- ginius to sea from Aspinwall, Columbia, where she was blockaded by the Spanish man-of-war Pizarro. For this service he received the written commendation of the navj' department. He commanded the U.S.S. Onward on the Peru- vian coast, 1872-75, serving frequently as .senior officer; was on board the Tennessee as principal aide to Rear-Admiral Reynolds, commander-in-