The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-05-04

DEATH or REV PlINY II. WHITE
Rev Pliny II. White, Pastor of the Cons
gregational church of Coventry died at his
residence on Saturday April oath Of par
alysis Of the brain. lie was born in Springs
field, Vermont, October Cd, 1922. His
education was received mostly in the COM
mon school and academy, rot having the
opportunities for pursuing collegiate
course. lie studied law with Hon. Will
lam c, Bradley, at Westminster, and
was admitted 10 the Windham County
bar, and practiced the profession for few
years. During the period Of his legal
practice, he began to write for the Brattle~
boro Eagle. The conducting ola newspa.
per being more congenial to his tastes he
abandoned the law, and became the editor
OF the Eagle, now the Brattleboro Pho
nix. He afterwards spent year or more
as the editor of the Express at Amherst.
Mass. In 1919, he became connected
with the Messrs Fairbanks, of st. Johns
fury, conducting the correspondence Of
their large and rapidly increasing business
and remained with them for several years,
and was the Secretary of Civil and Mill
tary Affairs during Gov. Erastus Fair
banks administration in 1852 Subse,
quenty he went to Montpelier and held
one or two clWkships about the Legislature
and afterward was a member of the lower
House. Finally he studied for the ministry
and on being ordained devoted himself
faithfully to it to the day of his death.
He found time, however, for an abundance
of Of her things. His note. book and pencil
were always in USE In this way he had
gathered voluminous notes and sketches
upon great variety of topics, which
would have been of value to him and others
in the future. He probably knew the
personal history and peculiar characters
tics of more Vermont men, living an
dead, than any score Of other men. He
left sketches of every clergyman in his de,
nomination in the State, as well as of
nearly every other prominent man, all
carefully and Systematically arranged.
To the early history of Vermont he was
especially devoted, and at the time of
his death held the office of President of
the State Historical Society. Among
the contributions in the Historical Rooms
at the State House, no name appears as
the donor so often as his Anything which
was old was both curious and valuable to
him. The most active and interested
man in the Society, his loss will be quite
irreparable.
Mr. White was an honorary member
of the New England Historical and G en-
ealogical Society, and corresponding men,
Der OF nearly all the Historical Societies
in this country, He was also one Of the
trustees Of the Vermont State Library,
and a trustee of Middlebury College.
The honorary degree of Master of Art,
had been conferred upon him by Amherst
and Middlebury Colleges, and the Uni
versity of Vermont.
He leaves wife and two Children
daughter who graduated at Tilden Semi-
nary last Commencement with the high
est honors, and son, n bright lad of some
IL years,
Mr. White was identified with every
movement for moral reform and gave his
especial and earnest labors for the carse
of temperance. He was the presiding of,
ficer for the last three years, of the order
Of Good Templars in this state and will
be sincerely mourned by the members OF
the order.
The Barton Standard closes its notice of
his death as follows.
ale was remarkable man, both in
the extent of knowledge, and the readi.
ness with which he could apply it on all
occasions. He was a walking encyclo
pedia of historical facts and dates, and il
will be long time before Vermont can
furnish his equal in this particular He
was warm and genial friend, temper-
ance man of the strictest sect, and as we
believe a consistent christian