Rev. Greenough White, eldest child of John Gardner White and Mary Beach, b. Sept. 17, 1863 at Cambridge, Mass. He was named for his paternal uncle, Lieut. William Greenough White, who died on the same date one year earlier at the battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg, MD).
A graduate of Harvard University (A.M. 1984; B.D. Episcopal Theo. Coll. 1892), from 1888-89 he was a professor at Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) and from 1893 until shortly before his death a professor at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN. He was the author of seven works, his last "An Apostle of the Western Church, Memoir of the Right Reverend Jackson Kemper..." completed in 1899 at Sewanee and published at New York in 1900. He never married and died July 2, 1901 at Sewanee:
Boston Evening Transcript, July 3, 1901, p. 5, col. 1.
Recent Deaths - Professor Greenough White
• Rev. Greenough White, late processor of ecclesiastical history and polity at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., was found dead in his room yesterday. He had taken his life during the night by drinking carbolic acid. Professor White had been mentally unbalanced for some time, though he had had long periods of lucidity since his trouble first manifested itself in Boston, ten years ago. Recently his condition became so bad that his resignation from the faculty was necessary. Professor White wanted to plead his case, but this was denied him last week.
He was interred July 8, 1901 at the White family plot at Mount Auburn, Cambridge, Mass.
A graduate of Harvard University (A.M. 1984; B.D. Episcopal Theo. Coll. 1892), from 1888-89 he was a professor at Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) and from 1893 until shortly before his death a professor at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN. He was the author of seven works, his last "An Apostle of the Western Church, Memoir of the Right Reverend Jackson Kemper..." completed in 1899 at Sewanee and published at New York in 1900. He never married and died July 2, 1901 at Sewanee:
Boston Evening Transcript, July 3, 1901, p. 5, col. 1.
Recent Deaths - Professor Greenough White
• Rev. Greenough White, late processor of ecclesiastical history and polity at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., was found dead in his room yesterday. He had taken his life during the night by drinking carbolic acid. Professor White had been mentally unbalanced for some time, though he had had long periods of lucidity since his trouble first manifested itself in Boston, ten years ago. Recently his condition became so bad that his resignation from the faculty was necessary. Professor White wanted to plead his case, but this was denied him last week.
He was interred July 8, 1901 at the White family plot at Mount Auburn, Cambridge, Mass.
Rev. Greenough White, eldest child of John Gardner White and Mary Beach, b. Sept. 17, 1863 at Cambridge, Mass. He was named for his paternal uncle, Lieut. William Greenough White, who died on the same date one year earlier at the battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg, MD).
A graduate of Harvard University (A.M. 1984; B.D. Episcopal Theo. Coll. 1892), from 1888-89 he was a professor at Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) and from 1893 until shortly before his death a professor at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN. He was the author of seven works, his last "An Apostle of the Western Church, Memoir of the Right Reverend Jackson Kemper..." completed in 1899 at Sewanee and published at New York in 1900. He never married and died July 2, 1901 at Sewanee:
Boston Evening Transcript, July 3, 1901, p. 5, col. 1.
Recent Deaths - Professor Greenough White
• Rev. Greenough White, late processor of ecclesiastical history and polity at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., was found dead in his room yesterday. He had taken his life during the night by drinking carbolic acid. Professor White had been mentally unbalanced for some time, though he had had long periods of lucidity since his trouble first manifested itself in Boston, ten years ago. Recently his condition became so bad that his resignation from the faculty was necessary. Professor White wanted to plead his case, but this was denied him last week.
He was interred July 8, 1901 at the White family plot at Mount Auburn, Cambridge, Mass.
A graduate of Harvard University (A.M. 1984; B.D. Episcopal Theo. Coll. 1892), from 1888-89 he was a professor at Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) and from 1893 until shortly before his death a professor at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN. He was the author of seven works, his last "An Apostle of the Western Church, Memoir of the Right Reverend Jackson Kemper..." completed in 1899 at Sewanee and published at New York in 1900. He never married and died July 2, 1901 at Sewanee:
Boston Evening Transcript, July 3, 1901, p. 5, col. 1.
Recent Deaths - Professor Greenough White
• Rev. Greenough White, late processor of ecclesiastical history and polity at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., was found dead in his room yesterday. He had taken his life during the night by drinking carbolic acid. Professor White had been mentally unbalanced for some time, though he had had long periods of lucidity since his trouble first manifested itself in Boston, ten years ago. Recently his condition became so bad that his resignation from the faculty was necessary. Professor White wanted to plead his case, but this was denied him last week.
He was interred July 8, 1901 at the White family plot at Mount Auburn, Cambridge, Mass.
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