WHITE, Andrew Dickson, educator, born in Homer, New York, 7 November, 1832. He was of New England parentage, studied one year at Hobart college, New York, and passed the remainder of his collegiate course at Yale, where he was graduated in 1853. After graduation he spent about two years in Europe, chiefly at Paris and Berlin, in the prosecution of historical studies. He was also attache to the American legation in St. Petersburg for six months, and travelled on foot through many of the historical localities of the continent, especially in northern and western France He returned home in 1856, studied history for one year at Yale, and in 1857 was elected professor of history and English literature in the University of Michigan. In 1862 he resigned in consequence of impaired health, returned to Syracuse, where he had formerly resided, was elected to the state senate for that place, and was re-elected in 1864. While slate senator he introduced bills that codified the school laws, created the new system of normal schools, and incorporated Cornell university. In 1867 he became first president of Cornell, which post he filled until failing health compelled him to retire in 1885. He visited Europe in 1867-'8 for the purpose of examining into the organization of the principal schools of agriculture and technology and of purchasing" books and apparatus for his university at the request of its trustees. In January, 1871, he was appointed one of the United States commissioners to Santo Domingo, and aided in preparing the report of the commission. He was president of the Republican state convention of New York in October, 1871, and was United States minister to Germany from 1879 till 1881. From his own resources President White contributed about $100,000 to the equipment of Cornell university, and on 19 January, 1887, he endowed the new school of history and political science in that institution with his historical library numbering 30,000 volumes, besides 10,000 valuable pamphlets and many manuscripts, all of which cost him more than $100,000. As a permanent tribute to him the board of college managers decided to designate the new school as "The President White school of history and political science." Besides contributions to periodicals, he has published " Outlines of a Course of Lectures on History" (Detroit, 1861); "A Word from the Northwest" (London, 1863), in response to strictures in the American "Diary" of Dr. William Howard Russell: "Syllabus of Lectures on Modern History" (Ithaca, 1876); "The Warfare of Science" (New York, 1876) ; " The New Germany" (1882) ; " On Studies in General History and in the History of Civilization " (1885): and "A History of the Doctrine of Comets" (1886).--His cousin, Edwin, artist, born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, 21 May, 1817; died in Saratoga Springs, New York, '7 June, 1877, began to paint when he was a boy, was elected an associate of the National academy in 1848, and in the following" year became a full academician. In 1850, and again in 1869, he went abroad, and studied in Paris, Rome, Florence, and Dusseldorf. He returned to the United States in 1875, and opened a studio in New York. He executed a large number of paintings, most of them historical. These include " Washington resigning his Commission," which was bought by Maryland for , $6,000, and now in Annapolis;" Milton's Visit to Galileo": " Requiem of De Soto "; "Pocahontas informing Smith of the Conspiracy of the Indians"; " Old Age of Milton" (1848) ; and "First Print, lug of the Bible." Among his portraits are those of Elihu Burritt and S. Wells Williams. He bequeathed his "Antiquary" to the Metropolitan museum (New York), " Leonardo da Vinci and his Pupils" (1868) to Amherst college, and an unfinished picture of the signing of the compact on the "Mayflower" to Yale. The New York historical society owns his " Murillo sketching the Beggar-Boy " (1865) ; the Museum of fine arts, Boston, his "Interior of the Bargello, Florence" (1875): and his " Age's Revery " (1847) is at the United States military academy. West Point.