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WHITE

cliief of the Asiatic station, 1875-77; at the Tor- pedo station, Newport, R. I., 1878; instructor in seamanship at the Naval academy, 1879-83; executor in seamanship at the NaA'al academy, 1879-82; executive officer on the flagship Hart- ford, Pacific station, 1882-84; on special duty in the navy department, 1884-85, and at the training station, Newport, R.I., 1885-86, being promoted commander, March 4, 1886. He com- manded the training ship Portsvwuth, 1886-88; served as equipment officer at the Portsmouth (N.H.) navy yard, 1888-92, and in April of the latter year was ordered to the command of the U.S.S. Concord, ascending the Mississippi river to Memphis, Tenn., and subsequently going to Cairo, III. He cruised with the North Atlantic squadron during the summer of 1893; served on the coast of Venezuela and the Isthmus of Panama, 1892-93, and was attached to ihe review fleet of Admiral Gherardi in March, 1893. He served as equipment officer of the New York navy yard, 1893-95; at the Naval War college, Newport, R. I., 1895; as commandant of cadets, U.S. Naval academy, 1895-98; was subsequently appointed to the command of the Terror, and in October, 1898, to the flagship Philadelphia, Pacific station, being advanced to captain, Dec. 25, 1898. He was present at the action at Apia, Samoa, March and April, 1899, and was retired, on account of ill health, with the rank of rear-ad- miral, in December, 1899. He subsequently re- sided in Princeton, N.J.

WHITE, Eliza Orne, author, was born in Keeue, N.H., Aug. 2, 1850; daughter of the Rev. William Orne and Margaret Eliot (Harding) White; grandfather of Daniel Appletou White (q.v.) and Eliza (Orne) W^hite, and of Chester (q.v.) and Caroline (Woodruff) Harding. She attended the common schools and a private school, and subsequently devoted hei'self to literary production, removing to Brookline, Mass., in 1881. She is the author of: Miss Brooks (1890); WinterhoroughilSm); WJien3Iolly was Six {18U); The Coming of Theodora (1895); A Little Girl of Long Ago (1869); A Browning Courtship and Other Stories (1897); A Lover of Truth (1898): Edna and Her Brothers (1900); Lesley Chilton (1903).

WHITE, Emerson Elbridge, educator, was born in Mantua, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1829; son of Jones and Sarah (McGregory) White; grandson of Calvin and Phoebe (Titus) White and a de- scendant of Capt. Thomas White, who came to Weymouth, Mass., from England as early as 1633. He attended the common schools and the academy at Twinsburg, Ohio, 1846, and matric- ulated at Cleveland university in 1848, but left in his senior year to become principal of a grammar school in Cleveland. He was married, July 26,

1853, to Mary Ann, daughter of Henry M. and Clara (Church) Sabin of Hudson, Ohio. He was principal of the Central High school of Cleveland, 1853-56; superindendent of public schools, Ports- mouth, Ohio, 1856-60; Ohio state school com- missioner, 1863-66; eAitoxoitliQ Ohio Educational Monthly, 1861-75; president of Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind., 1876-83, and superintendent of the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1886-89. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferreil upon him by Marietta, 1857, and by Western Reserve, 1865, and that of LL.D. by the University of Indiana, 1876, and in the same year by Marietta, of which latter college he was a trustee, 1869-73. He was president of the Ohio Teacher's Associa- tion, 1863; of the National Superintendent's as- sociation. 1868; the National Educational asso- ciation, 1872, and of the National Council of Edu- cation, 1884-86. He was editor and proprietor of the Ohio Eucational Monthly, 1861-75, and of the National Teacher, 1870-75, and the author of the memorial and bill creating the National Bureau of Education, presented to congress in 1866. He also published: A Series of Mathematical Text- Books (1870-86); New Complete Arithmetic {ISSZ); Oral Lessons in Number (1884); Revived School Records (1886); Elements of Pedagogy (1886); First Book of Arithmetic (1890); School Man- agement (1893); Elements of Geometry (1895); School Algebra (1896); The Art of Teaching (1901). He died in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1902.

WHITE, Emory Calvin, traveler and writer, was born in Monterey, Allegany county, Mich., Oct. 15, 1857; son of Joseph Henry and Harriett (Clark) White; grandson of Jonah and Sarah (McGregor) W^hite and of Reuben and Elizabeth (Satterlee) Clark, and a direct descendant of Sir Thomas White, member of Long Parliament under Cromwell. He attended Michigan college, 1879-80; Purdue university, 1880-83, where he was also instructor during the same period; was superintendent of schools, Albion, Ind., 1883-84; was president of the American college, Callao, Peru, S.A., 1884-85. His first wife died in 1878, and he was married, secondly, Oct. 1, 1900, to Mary Josephine, daughter of Carlos Hilton and Josephine (Hall) Gould of Cincinnati, Ohio. He made explorations and archaeological and ethno- logical investigations among the ruins of the Incas, 1885-86; discovering on summit of Huacca Puna the onh" Pigmy city ever found on the American continent, April 26, 1885, which he again visited in 1897-98 and 1900-01. He was recommended as U.S. minister to Peru under President Harrison's administration, and was made a member of the Geographical Society of Lima, Peru. He was engaged many years in compiling a complete " History of The Incas," and had in preparation (1904) ^4 Wedding Journey