The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . held on parole. The subject of this sketch waseducated at Hudsons academy, Winsboro, and atthe academy of H. M. Bruas, , in Charleston,and entered the college of Charleston, a
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . held on parole. The subject of this sketch waseducated at Hudsons academy, Winsboro, and atthe academy of H. M. Bruas, , in Charleston,and entered the college of Charleston, and,the SouthCarolina medical college, graduating from theformer in 1846, and from the latter iu soon after began practice in Charleston, wherehe became a noted and successful physician. Atthe breaking out of the civil war, he was commis-sioned surgeon in the C. S. A., and served with dis-tinction in hospitals and in the field. In 1862, during the yellow-fever epidemic at Wilmington, N. C,he was selected as an expert by the war authorities togo to the relief of yellow-fever sufferers. At the closeof the war in 1865, he removed to New York city,where he soon acquired a large practice, and becameknown as one of the most skillful and successfulphysicians in the city. In 1876 he was selected anddelegated by the academy of medicine to attend theyellow fever patients at Savannah. Ga., during the. OF AMERICAN BIOGKAPHT. 23 prevailing epidemic, and report upon the causes ofthe scourge. In 1890 he removed from Second ave-nue to Madison avenue, wliere lie purchased an ele-gant residence, which he enlarged and White is a member of the New York Academyof medicine. County Medical society. New YorkHistorical society, the American Public Health Asso-ciation, the Lenox Medical and Surgical society, theNational Health association, and of St. Marks Epis-copal church. He married, in 1849, Claudia Rebecca,eldest daughter of Prof. John Bellinger, , ofCharleston,
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