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WHITE, Daniel Appleton, jurist, born in the part of Methuen which is now Lawrence, Massachusetts, 7 June, 1776; died in Salem, Massachusetts, 30 March, 1861. He was graduated at Harvard in 1797, was teacher of the Medford grammar-school in 1797-'9 and Latin tutor in Harvard in 1799-1803. He began the study of law at Cambridge, was admitted to the bar in 1804, and engaged in practice in Newburyport, where he resided till January, 1817, when he removed to Salem. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1810-'15, was chosen to congress in 1814, but declined to serve, and was elected judge of probate of Essex county, Massachusetts, which office he held for thirty-eight years. He was for many years an active member of the Essex institute, to which he gave 8,000 volumes, and of the Massachusetts historical society. Judge White was the author of a "Eulogy on George Washington" (Haverhill, 1800); " View of the Jurisdiction of the Court of Probate in Massachusetts" (Salem, 1822) ; "Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch" (1822); and "New England Congregationalism, in its Origin and Purity" (1861); and aided John Pickering in preparing his edition of Sallust (1805). See a memoir of Judge White by James Walker, written for the Massachusetts historical society (1863), and also one by George W. Briggs for the Essex institute (1864).
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