ISAIAH H. WHITE. M. D.
Dr. White was born in Accomack county, Virginia, on July 24, 1838.
He attended school at Onancock, that county, then, in 1854-55, a
school at Alexandria, Virginia; William and Mary College, 1855-58,
the Medical College of Virginia, 1859-61, graduating with degree of
Doctor of Medicine in 1861. He entered the Confederate States army
in April, 1862, as assistant surgeon, assigned to duty at Chimborazo
hospital; in July 1862, was promoted surgeon, and assigned to duty
with the 14th Louisiana Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia; in February,
1864, was assigned as surgeon in charge of military prison at
Andersonville, and in the summer of 1864 was made chief surgeon of all
military prisons east of the Mississippi, so serving until the close of the
war. Settling in Richmond, at the close of the war, and entering into
practice there, Dr. White was, in the fall of 1865, chosen demonstrator
of anatomy at the Medical College of Virginia, which position he filled
ten years. In 1868 he assumed charge of the infirmary of the college,
which he conducted as a private hospital for three years. In March,
1886, he was appointed acting assistant surgeon, U. S. Marine Hospital
service, a position he still holds. He is a member of the Southern
Surgical and Gynecologiel Association, and of the Richmond Academy
of Medicine; an ex-president of the last-named society.
Dr. White's father was Samuel C. White, born in Accomack county
in 1799, died in February, 1888. His mother, Mary E., daughter of
Mitchell Chandler, of Accomack county, died in August, 1881, in her
seventy-fifth year. His wife, whom he married in Richmond, April 11,
1871, is Caroline W., daughter of Daniel Kern of Germany, deceased.
She was born in New York State.
