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Wife Dr. Maria White 1 2
Born: 1 Apr 1858 - Grove City, Mercer Co, PA 2
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Died: Aft 1897
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Father: George W. White (1812-1882) 3 4
Mother: Susanna Kerr Wallace ( -1872) 2
Children
General Notes: Wife - Dr. Maria White
She obtained her elementary education in the schools of Grove City, later attending the State Normal School at Edinboro, Pennsylvania, after which she taught school for a time, and then took a two years' course in the Grove City College. In 1881 she went to New York City as a missionary under the auspices of the United Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, and spent one year laboring among the poor of the tenement districts, being called home to Grove City in 1882, on the death of her father. Remaining at home one year, she read medicine during that time under the direction and tutelage of Dr. Van Emon, and in 1883 entered the Women's Medical College of Baltimore, Md., where she was connected as a student until her graduation in 1886, her vacations being spent in the hospitals of Baltimore. She also took a course in bacteriology at Johns Hopkins College. Dr. White then went to New York City to take post-graduate work, spending three months in a special course in the treatment of disorders of the eye and ear, diseases of children, of the nervous system, and in orthopedic surgery. After returning to Grove City, and taking leave of her friends, she sailed, under the United Presbyterian Board of Missions, from Philadelphia the fifteenth day of September, 1886, for India, being located at Sialkot in the Panjab, being the first lady surgeon sent out by that board. About one year after reaching that place she opened a hospital and dispensary in the city on a small scale. Later on she purchased land and erected a large hospital, where she remained as chief surgeon and physician eight years, also devoting a considerable portion of her time and strength to teaching many of the native girls the art of nursing. In connection with the hospital, she also established a dispensary twenty miles from Sialkot in the city of Pasrure. In 1894, Dr. White returned to America, recuperating a few months in Astoria, Oregon. Later on she came to New Castle, Pennsylvania, where she successfully engaged in the labors peculiar to her profession, and had a very large office practice. She was a devoted and enthusiastic worker in the interests of the W. C. T. U., and an ardent advocate of the aims and principles of the Prohibition party. [BOBLC, 94]