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WHITE, Stanford, architect, was born in New York city, Nov. 9, 1853; son of Richard Grant White (q.v.) and Alexina B. (Meade) White. He received his education in the common schools and under private tutors, and his architectural training with Charles D. Gambrill and H. H. Richardson, serving as chief-assistant of the latter in the construction of Trinity cliurch, Boston. He traveled and studied in Europe, 1878-80. and in 1881 became a partner in the firm of McKim, Mead and White, New York city. He was married, in 1884, to Bessie Smith, a member of a family descended from Col. Richard Smith, the original patentee of Smithtown, Long Island. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the University of the City of New York in 1881; was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects; a member of the Tile club, and of various other similar organizations. His representative work includes Madison Square Garden building (1888); the buildings of Century and Metropolitan clubs (1892); Washington Arch, New York city (1891); University of Virginia (1896); University of the City of New York (1898); and pedestals for the principal statues by St. Gaudens, including those for the Farragut monu- ment in Madison Square, New York, and Lincoln statue, Chicago. 111.

WHITE, Stephen Mallory, senator, was born in San Francisco. Cal.. Jan. 19, 1853. He was brought up on a farm in Santa Cruz county, Cal.; attended St. Ignatius college and was graduated from Santa Clara college in 1871. He was ad- mitted to practice before the supreme court of California, April 14. 1874, and settled in Los Angeles, Cal. He was district attorney of Los Angeles county, 1882; chairman of the Demo- cratic State conventions, 1884 and 1886; a state senator, 1886-90, serving as president j^^'o tempore of the senate, and in 1888 became by virtue of his office lieutenant-governor of the state. He was a delegate-at-large from California to the Demo- cratic national conventions of 1888 and 1892, serving as temporary president of the former. He was the unsuccessful candidate for U.S. senator in 1890 and served as U.S. senator, 1893- 99. He died in Los Angeles. Cal., Feb. 21, 1901.

WHITE, Stewart Edward, author, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich.. March 12, 1873; son of Thomas Stewart and Mary Eliza (Daniell) White; grandson of Thomas and Caroline AVhite and of William and Irene (Muusell) Daniell, and a descendant of Mayfotcer Whites, and Sir Philip de Mannsell of William the Conqueror's army. He attended the pviblic schools and spent his boy- hood in the Micliigan woods; was graduated from the University of Michigan, A.B., 1895. and was a student at the Columbia Law school, 1896-97, but did not enter practice, devoting himself to

literary pursuits instead. He was four years in California; four in various Western states; pros- pected in the Black Hills; cruised in little known Canadian waters for two summers; spent some time in Arizona cattle ranches; was in Paris, France, for eigliteen months, and made extensive explorations in the Sierra Nevadas. He is the author of: The Westerners (1901); The Claim Jumpers (1901); TJie Blazed Trail (1902); Con- juror's House (1903); The Forest (1903), and con- tributions to magazines.

WHITEFIELD, George, evangelist, was born in Gloucester, England, Dec. 27, 1714. Upon his father's death in 1716, his mother assumed charge of Bull inn, and during his boyhood George as- sisted in the hostelry and attended school until 1729, when he obtained employment in a hotel. In 1732 he entered, as a servitor, Pembroke college. Oxford, where he was associated with John and Charles Wesley in the so-called ''Methodist" club; was ordered deacon by the Bishop of Gloucester, June 20, 1736, and graduated from college late in the same year. He spent the fol- lowing two years in itinerant preaching, acquir- ing a wide-spread reputation for his oratorical and magnetic powers and often conducting his services out-of-doors as several of the London pulpits were closed to him owing to his extreme teachings. In 1738 he followed the Wesleys to America, but after a brief visit to Savannah, Ga., went back to England to procure funds for the founding of an orphan school. In spite of bitter denunciation from the English press, he preached to immense open air aiidiences; secured 500 acres of land for his projected school from the trustees of Georgia, and material aid amounting to £2,530, from the Countess of Huntingdon and other dis- tinguished persons. Upon his return to America, he preached in Philadelphia and New York city previous to his arrival at Savannah, when he be- gan the construction of the orphanage, called Bethesda, in March, 1740, and after preaching extensively throughout New England, revisited England a second time, and was married, Nov. 25, 1741, to a widow, Elizabeth James, of Wales. He subsequently, after his separation from Charles Wesley, preached in the Tabernacle. London, and in 1748 became chaplain to Lady Huntingdon, through whose benevolence he founded the Cal- vinistic Methodists. He returned to America in 1744, 1751, 1754, 1763 and 1769. preaching with remarkable vigor up to the time of liis sudden death. He is supposed to have preached some 18,000 times, and to audiences numbering on oc- casions 25,000. He is the author of: Voyage from London to Savannah, a journal (1738). and its continuation (1738-39), revised and abridged as First Two Parts of his Life, tcith his Journals (1756), and Letters, Sermons, Controversies, and