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GREENOUGH WHITE. Ferdinand Eliot White was born in 1788, and was a merchant in the city of Boston. He was graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1854. He was twice married, his second wife being Dorothy Gardner, who was born in 1799, and a niece of Madam Hancock. To them were born four daughters and three sons, our subject’s father, John Gardner White, being born in 1833. Our subject’s maternal grandfather, George Beach, was born in 1788, and for many years was president of the Phoenix Bank in the city of Hartford. For his second wife he married Maria, daughter of C. Nichols, of Hartford. She was born in 1799. One of her sisters married George Beach, Jr., the eldest of Grandfather Beach’s seven sons by his first marriage, and another sister became the wife of Isaac Toucy, Senator and Secretary of the Navy under James Buchanan. Our subject’s mother was a Miss Beach. She was married to John Gardner White in June, 1862, and our subject, Greenough White, was born on September 17, 1863, it being the anniversary of the death of his uncle, William Greenough White, on the battle-field of Antietam. Greenough, our subject, was prepared for entrance to Harvard College at the private school of G. W. C. Noble, of Boston, and entered the university in the autumn of 1880, and in June, 1884, he received his degree as B. A. (cum laude, and with honorable mention in English). Through the following year he pursued courses in literature, ecclesiastical history and the history of art, and was graduated as Master of Arts in June, 1885. In the same month he was appointed assistant professor of modern languages in the University of the South.