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over Sonth America and TJie Pigmies of the Andes and Other Stories. He also contributed many articles to the American press.

WHITE, Frank, governor of North Dakota, was born in Stilhnan Valley. 111., Dec. 12, 185C ; son of Joshua and Lucy A. White. He attended the Methodist school at Mt. Morris. 111., and was graduated at the University of Illinois, B.S., 18S0. He reniDved to Dakota in 1882. and estab- lished himself on a farm near Valley City. He was county surveyor for several years, and in 1891 was a representative in the North Dakota legislature. He was state senator. 1892-98. resign- ing to accompany the regiment of which he was major to the Pliilippines. He was elected gov- ernor of North Dakota in 1900 and reelected in 1902. He was married. Sept. 19, 1894, to Elsie Hadley of Valley City. N.D.

WHITE, Henry Ciay, chemist, was born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 30, 1850; son of Levi S. and Louisa E. (Brown) White ; grandson of James and Mary (Stratton) White, and of Wil- liam and Catharine (Carroll) Brown, and great- grandson of James White, of Whitby, England, who settled in Cecil county, Md., in 1784. He was graduated from the University of Virginia, B.S.. 1870, Ph.D., 1877; was professor of chem- istry in the Maryland institute, Baltimore, and in St. John's college, Annapolis, and science lec- turer in Peabody Institute, Baltimore, 1870-72 ; professor of chemistry, University of Georgia, from 1872 ; state chemist of Georgia, 1880-90 ; vice-director and chief chemist of the Georgia State experiment station from 1888, and presi- dent of the Georgia State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts from 1890. He was married, Dec. 19, 1872, to Ella Frances, daughter of Leon- ard and Rachel (De Wees) Roberts of Chester county. Pa. He was president of the Associa- tion of Official Chemists of the United States, 1881-82 ; of the Association of Agricultural Col- leges and Experiment Stations, 1897-98, and of the Georgia Chemical society, 190-3 ; vice-presi- dent of the National Educational association, 1898-99 ; was made a member of tlie American Chemical society ; fellow of the Chemical .soci- ety of London, 1880 ; of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1882, and cor- responding meml)er of the British Association for tlie Advancement of Science, 1887. He was collaborator of the Reports of cotton investiga- tions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1897), and is the author of: Elementary Geol- ogy of Tennessee (with William Gibbs McAdoo, 1873) ; Complete Chemistry of the Cotton Plant (1874) ; Lecture^ and Addresses (2 vols., 188.5-91); Manuring of Cotton m^P,)\ Dietary Studies (1902- 03) and of contributions to statistical, agricul- tural, manufactural and scientific periodicals.

WHITE, Horace, journalist and author, was born in Colebrook, N. H., Aug. 10, 1834 ; son of Dr. Horace and Eliza M. (3Ioore) White ; grand- son of Benjamin and Betsy (Wilder) White of Bethlehem, N. H., and of William and Isabel (McClary) Moore of Bedford, N.H. He re- moved with his parents to Beloit, Wis., 1837, attend the common schools, and was graduated from Beloit college, A.B., 1853, A.M., 1856. He was a reporter on the Chicago (111.) Tribune,

1858, writing up the famous Lincoln-Douglas de- bates ; and editor and co-proprietor of the same, 1864-74. He was twice married : first, April 19

1859, to Martha, daughter of the Rev. David and Mary (Gordon) Root of New Haven, Conn ; sec- ondly, Feb. 5, 1873, to Amelia, daughter of James T. and Abby (McGinnis) MacDougall of Joliet, 111. In 1883 he became co-editor with Edwin L. Godkin of the New York Evening Post, and in 1899 chief-editor, a position he still held in 1903. Beloit college conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1895. He edited Bastiafs ''Sophismes Economiques" (1876), and Luigi Cossa's "Scienza delle finanze" (1889). and is the author of : Money and Banking Illustrated by American History (1895; 2d ed., 1902); TJte Ro- man History of Appian of Alexandria, trans- lated from the Greek (2 vols., 1899).

WHITE, Hugh Lawson, statesman, was born in Iredell county, N.C., Oct. 30. 1773; son of James White, the pioneer. He received a lim- ited education, and in 1787 accompanied his father to the frontier settlement on the Holston river, Knox county, Tenn. He served as a vol- unteer under Gen. John Sevier, in the Cherokee war, taking part in the battle of Etowah, where he shot and killed the Indian chief, King Fisher. He studied law in Lancaster, Pa., under James Hopkiiis ; was admitted to the bar in 1795. and established himself in practice in Knoxville, in 1796. He was private secretary to Governor Blount; U.S. district attorney, 1797-1809; a jus- tice of the supreme court of Tennessee, 1801-07 and 1809-15, and state senator in 1809 and 1820--25. In 1815 he was elected president of the Bank of Tennessee, at Knoxville ; he compiled the Land Laws of the state, and in 1817 drew up the act prohibiting duelling, and was appointed b}- Pres- ident Monroe a member of the commission to adjust the claims of American citizens against Spain, 1820-24. He was chosen U.S. senator to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew Jackson, in 1825 ; re-elected in 1827, serving from Dec. 12, 1825-March 3, 1833, and was president pro tempore of the senate in 1832 and also chairman of the committee on Indian affairs. He opposed the Panama mission, the 8y.stem of internal improvements and the re- charter of the U.S. bank ; favored a protective