Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-24
DEATH OF COLONEL WHITE.

 George M. White, Passes Away After a Long Illness-End of Useful | Career-Sketch of His Lffe-His Ex- celIent Reputation.
 Colonel George M. White after a long characteristics fortitude, died peacefully \ yesterday at noon.
 He was born in Bristol, Conn, Decem Der 6, 1889, but spent most of his life in New Haven. Immediately after the out break of the civil war he entered the mili- tary service of his country as second lieu tenant of Company 0 in the First regiment of Connecticut volunteers. In August, 1862, he became captain of Company E in the Fifteen regiment. which position he held until the end of the war. The com mission of colonel of the Tenth regiment had been at one time offered to him but he declined it.
 In January, 1885 he was appointed as- sistant adjutant general of Connecticut with the rank of colonel, and by success sive reappointments he retained that office until the time of his death. His official duties were very numerous and important and were discharged with consummate fidelity and skill. The Record of service of Connecticut men in the army and navy of the United States" during the war of the revolution and the subsequent wars in which the republic has been engaged was to very large extent the work of his faithful and laborious hand. He was a brave soldier, ,an unassuming and scholarly gentleman and loyal friend. His mem ory will be cherished with porfound re- spect by all who knew him.
 At the age of thirteen he left home and school to care for himself and engaged in various occupations, including teaching district school two winters in Litchfeld county. He entered General Russell's New Haven in 1859, with the purpose of fitting for Yale college At the commence ment of the war in 1861, when the three months regiments were encamped in Now Haven, young White was one of the sev- eral students of Russelps school who were sent as drill masters to the First regiment. Two hours before the First regiment was to embark on the Biennial for Washington, Colonel Dan White offered him second ieuten- ants commission on condition that he would follow with Colonel Terry's regi- | ment the next day and join the First in w WdSuluSGOu alGCI uuSUy COaSu1tupiOli | with General Russell, White accepted the offer, embarked with the Second regiment the following day, and joining the First, was given his commission and assigned to | Company c, in which position he served until the muster out of the regiment. He then returned to school, where he | remained as adjutant until the call for | troops in 1869. The temptation then was great to enter college with his classmates, but he opened recruiting office instead, raised company with the 'Lyon Regi ment," and entered the service again af | captain of Company E, Fifteenth Connec. | ticut Volunteers.
 Late in 1864 he was commissioned by l Governor Buckingham as colonel of the l Tenth c. V., but on reporting to General Butler at Bermuda Hundred was inform
 ed that he could only be mustered in that | grade on condition that the regiment wal
 recruited up to the maximum required by
 orders. He declined detail on recruiting
 service for that purpose, and returned tt
 the Fifteenth and to his rank of captain
 He was captured with his regiment neal
 Kingston, N. O., where General Cox wal
 moving up from New Berne to meet Sher
 man at Goldsboro, where he was anxiously
 engaged for three days and nights trying
 to cross the Roanoke river on raft ane | SOG GO P1lSOh tuIOO OnyS III 0O uuC'
 of his regiment.
 He was stricken with typhoid fever whil
 in Libby prison, but was carried to tn
 boat by his comrades when the regimen
 was paroled and knew nothing more of tn
 war until he "came to himself' in the maya
 school hospital in Annapolis after Lee
 surrender.
 Returning to New Haven Captain Whit
 was at once made chief of police, whicl
 position he filled with conspicuous abilit,
 until he resigned to accept better salar
 as general superintendent of gold minin
 company in North Carolina. Five year
 were given to this service, when, durin
 the Ku-Klux excitement, the mills and ma
 chinery of the company were burned t
 the ground, and he returned to the north
 He then accepted the position of superin
 tendent of the New Haven Water company which he held until made president an
 superintendent of the Connecticut Wate
 Pipe company.
 After three years' employment in thi
 capacity he served for like period 6
 superintendent of the Connecticut Ger
 eral hospital at New Haven. He next en parked in the manufacture and introdut
 tion of patent air bed of his own inver tion, but soon disposed of his interest t other parties. Five years' service with th
 Diamond Match company, followed by six months engagement in the mining It gions of Colorado, and like period
 Journalism" brought him to the openin of the presidential campaign in 1884, wLe he entered upon the duties of secretary (
 the Republican Town committee in Ne1 Haven.
 On Jan. 8, 1885, when General Stephe R, Smith took the position of Adjutan
 general on the staff of Governor Harrison : he appointed Col. White assistant adjutan general, which position he most satisfa,
 torily filled to the end of the term. H was then re-appointed by AdjutantG Ger
 eral Camp, and confirmed by Gove1nc
 Lounsbury.
 } Colonel White was long time membe
 of the Grand Army of the Republic, an
 held, in 1883, the position of Post Con
 mander of Admiral Foote Post in Ne Haven, resigning while in Colorado. 4 the fall election in 1886, he was elected member of the board of selectmen of Ne, [ Haven. In politics Colonel White hs never been other than a straight republ can. He was three times elected by the C l A. R. veterans member of the depar ment of administration.
 Colonel Whites health began to fail s' 7 riously last October, since which time
 had been under Dr. Anderson's care. Colonel Whites family consists of l widow and three daughters as follows: En ma, aged seventeen, Gertrude, fourtee
 years of age, and Mabel, aged twelve. Few men in the city enjoyed more popr larity than the deceased, whose death wi , be mourned by the members of Foote post which recently reelected him commander
 and by his many friends in military an other social circles. For integrity, homes ty, and uprightness and true manliness c | character he had few equals In his death so much and so sincerely lamented, ther
 is consolation in the fact that his excellen } reputation will survive him indefinitely. l The members of the Fifteenth Regimen ) Veterans association will hold meetin this afternoon to take action regarding hi
 death. There are about one hundred mem bers of the association in the city. Tn , official call for the meeting will be foun E in another column.
 , TRIBUTE FROM THE STATE.
 The following was last night issued fror adjutant generals office:
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT.