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John Blake White

WHITE, John Blake, artist, born near Entaw Springs, South Carolina, 2 September, 1781 ; died in Charleston, South Carolina, 24 August, 1859. He began the study of law in Columbia, South Carolina, but in 1800 went to England with Washington Allston. After four years of study with Benjamin West, he returned to the United States in 1804. The following year he proceeded to Boston to practise his art, but, not finding sufficient encouragement, he returned to Charleston and finished the study of law. In this profession he achieved success, and was repeatedly elected to the legislature of South Carolina. Although practising art only as an amateur, he produced several creditable historical paintings, among which are "Battle of Eutaw Springs" (1804); " Battle of Fort Moultrie" (1806) ; " Battle of New Orleans" (1816) ; and "Marion inviting the British Officer to Dinner" and "Mrs. Motte presenting the Arrows" (1836). He received from the South Carolina institute in 1840 a gold medal for the best historical painting, was elected an honorary member of the National academy in 1847, and was also the recipient of numerous other honors. Among his pot-traits are those of Charles C. Pinckney, Keating L. Simmons, John C. Calhoun, and Governor Henry Middleton. He was also noted for his literary attainments, and was the author of the dramas " Foscari, or the Venetian Exile " (1805) ; "Mysteries of the Castle" (1806); " Modern Honor" (1812) ; " Triumph of Liberty, or Louisiana preserved " (1819); and "Intemperance" (1839). He has been regarded as the pioneer of literature and art in the south.--His son, Edward Brickell, architect, born in Charleston, 29 January, 1806; died in New York city, 10 May, 1882, entered the United States military academy in 1822, and was graduated four years later. He served in the army for ten years, resigning in 1836, and during that time was frequently detached for engineering duties. Settling in Charleston, he followed successfully his profession as an engineer, being engaged in the building of various railroads. He erected also numerous residences, built Trinity church in Charleston, and designed the monument to Colonel William Washington, at Eutaw Springs, and that to William G. Simms, in Charleston. He entered the Confederate army, and served throughout the war. In 1865 he removed to New York, where he remained until his death.--Another son, Octavius Augustus, physician, born in Charleston, 8 February, 1826, was graduated at the College of South Carolina in 1846, and at South Carolina medical college two years later. He began and continued the practice of medicine with success, until the opening of the civil war, when he received the commission of surgeon in the Confederate army. At the close of the war he removed to New York, where he has since resided. He is a member of the New York academy of medicine, and other medical societies. Dr. White first introduced the practice of superficial incisions within the os uteri for the relief of stenotic dysmenorrhma. He also invented the "hysterotome," an instrument for practising safe incision within the neck of the womb; also novel instruments for the cure of hernia and varicocele, and a new form of laryngoscope, His contributions to medical literatm:e include "New Method of operating for Radical Cure of Hernia" (1851) ; "Transfusion, with Successful Results, in Cases of Flooding " (1853);"A New and Safe Treatment in Stenotic Dysmenorrhma " 1855); " Bradycsote Treatment of Yellow Fever" (1858) ; " Report on the Yellow-Fever Epidemie of Wilmington, North Carolina" (1862): " Varicocele and its Radical Cure" (New York, 1872); " Report on the Yellow-Fever Epidemic in Savannah, Georgia" (1876); and " Observations on the Pulse, introducing an Original Instrument of Precision (the Hemarumascope) for the Demonstration of Arterial and Venous Currents " (1877).

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