death_date death_place birth_place imagesize birth_date image article_title name occupation
27 april 1946 claremont , california , united states marash , ottoman empire 200px 14 october 1861 file : georgeedwardwhite.pdf george e. white -lrb- missionary -rrb-
 george edward white missionary witness to the armenian genocide , president of the anatolia college , and
george e. white -lrb- missionary -rrb-

george edward white -lrb- october 14 , 1861 -- april 27 , 1946 -rrb- was an american congregationalist missionary for the american board of commissioners for foreign missions for forty-three years .
stationed in the ottoman empire during the armenian genocide as president of the anatolia college in merzifon , white attempted to save the lives of many armenians , including `` refused to tell '' where armenians were hiding so to save them from getting deported or killed .
thus he became an important witness to the armenian genocide .
