MEADE FITZHUGH WHITE, ESQ.,
A lawyer of Staunton, was born at Warrenton, Fauquier county, Virginia,
on April 24, 1847. He was educated at the Warrenton Academy,
at Mossy Creek Academy (Augusta county), and at the University of
Virginia, and was called to the Bar at Staunton on November 1, 1870.
He has followed the profession of law, residing at Staunton, ever since,
practicing in Virginia and West Virginia, has been commonwealth's attorney
for Staunton one term, and for Augusta county two terms;
president of the Board of Visitors for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution
two terms, is an Odd Fellow, Knight of Honor, and member of
the Royal Arcanum. Only eighteen years of age when the war between
the States was ended, he had served in that war, a member of Company
H, 4th Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. (Black Horse Troop).
Hamden Aubrey White, father of Meade Fitzhugh, was born at Sudley
Mills, Prince William county, Virginia, on December 31, 1812, was a
magistrate and commissioner in chancery, and died at Charlottesville,
Virginia, on April 25, 1888, his father was John White of Millfield
Mills, Fauquier county. His wife, mother of Meade Fitzhugh, was
Caroline Battaille Fitzhugh (died at Warrenton, October 15, 1852), a
daughter of Richard Fitzhugh and Susan Meade of Oak Hill, Fairfax
county, Virginia.
At Staunton, March 23, 1873, Meade Fitzhugh White married Elvira
Callaghan Donaghe, who was born at Fincastle, Botetourt county,
Virginia. Their children are one daughter and six sons. Caroline
Briscoe, William Wood, Hamden Aubrey, George Moffet Cochran,
Edward Henry Fitzhugh, John Warwick Daniel and Thomas Leonidas
Riseur. Mrs. White is a daughter of Wm. Wood Donaghe, Jr.,
who died on April 23, 1873, and who was a son of Wm. Wood Donaghe,
Sr., and Mary Briscoe Baldwin, sister of Briscoe G. Baldwin and
aunt of John B. Baldwin, of Virginia.
