El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-10
DEATH OF DIR. AWARD WHITE.
He Passes Peacefully Away at 700 q.
m. TOday-General Sorrow.


m. TOday-General Sorrow.
Dr.. Award VIII lie, formerly city ply
stefan and one of the best known ply
sicians of the country, died this Morn
log at 7 O'Clock, at his residence on
Myrtle avenue, and the deepest regret
is expressed everywhere at the loss of
an honored member of the. profession
and q most valuable citizen.
The doctor was taken seriously i'll on
Friday last, after feeling badly for sew
eral days previous. He thought it
and that he would soon be out and
around again ate nding to his many
calls upon suffering humanity. But il
was developed on Sunday that he had
pneumonia. The attention that insi-
dious disease calls for, was Immediate
ly given, ard the medical profession
generally of this city was at the call Of
the family. For few days it seemed
as though DR.. White would pull
when HERALD reporter called q,
the house he was assured that the
patient was improviug-was in fact
encouragingly better. But this proved
only to be the apparent improvement
that 30 often appears just before the
end. During the evening, the doctor
took worse turn, and at midnight,
he began to eink. Drs. Villas, Gallagher
and Wright had been with him, and
DR.. Wright remained all night. But the
course of the disease could not be
stemmed, the sufferer drew steadily
worse, became delirious, and though
at times he would recognize his wife,
brothers and relatives who stood by
his bedside, and then slowly sank until
death came at the hour smed above.
The funeral will be held at 200 D. ~,
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with interment at Evergreen. Under
taker Negley has charge of the fun
era]
DR.. White leaves q wife, the sister of
NJ ss-e. w. T.. David ard Jesse P'yne,
two Sons, AVA ageu u, u stu enJ at
the school of mir g. Golden Colo, and
Owen aged 10, a stud Mt at the state
university, Austin, and q daughter
L Ugh. aged IA, in school here. The
remains were removed ,odav to the adj
rining ree.deace of ex-Alderman
Payne where they will remain until
- ken to church, and thence to their
last resting place.
In the death of DR.. White light
has gone cut, for h. "as one of the
,po.t beloved ply. lei ans the Ell Paso'
"a Talbot county. M .ryland, Septem-
Der 3, 1917. AMI was TIA arefore in his
52nd year.> HIS fataer, grandfather and
great grandfather before him were
physicians 80 that mbracing medicine
as his profession came natural enough
to him. He graduated from one of the
medic al schools of Baltimore, and sub
sequently took course of study At
the Bellevue Medical college in New
York. DIR. White first came to FL Paso
in 1852, and was U. 9. army surgeon,
but afterwards went back, returning to
FL Paso, however, in 1873, 80 that the
most valuable part of his life has been
given to suffer ing humanity in this
southwest country. The physicians of
this city are meeting this afternoon in
DR.. Villas Office take suitable action
on the death of their brother physi-
clan, and the funeral tomorrow will
surely be very largely attended.
DR.. White gave his life to the al
eviation Of human suffering. In fact,
this was the main thought of his life,
and his kindnesses to the INDECENT sick
were too numerous to be kept account
of. There was many a time that where
DR.. White knew u patient was unable
to buy the needed medicine, he would
go out quietly and fill the prescrip-
ton at his own expense, and say no.
thing about it afterwards. He bad 4
heart that was a good deal larger than
thies were continually going out to the
sick and the suffering. That this was
Q fact was demonstrated during the
last few hours of his illness when his
mind was continually occupied rs
though in the writing of prescri ptions
and with expression and inquiries as to
pssssles No s SHs s Sysr t bsd
we're not given medical aid
on application, whether they had mo-
ney or not. The death of such a man
is loss to any community, and it is
with regret that the HERALD fluids it.
self unable to give the DOCTORS por-
trait with this obituary. But Mrs.