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J. HUTCHINGS WHITE, M.D.
Vol. 3, p. 1050

One of the leading physicians and surgeons engaged in practice in
the City of Muskogee, Doctor WHITE has the distinction of claiming
the historic Old Dominion State as the place of his nativity, and
within its gracious borders his paternal and maternal ancestors
settled in the colonial era.

At Chatham, the judicial center of Pittsylvania County, Virginia,
Doctor White was born on the 17th of April, 1873, but the major part
of his childhood and early youth were passed at Danville, that
county, in which city his father was a prominent merchant and
influential citizen for many years. He is a son of Raleigh W. and
Fannie P. (NOWLIN) White, both of whom passed their entire lives in
Virginia. Profiting duly by the advantages afforded in the public
schools at Danville, Doctor White thereafter attended what is now the
Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Virginia, and for a period of
about four years after leaving this institution he was employed as a
stenographer in a railroad office in the City of New York: His
predilection and ambition finally led him to enter upon the work of
preparing himself for the profession in which he has achieved marked
success and prestige, and with this laudable end in view he entered
the medical department of the fine old University of Virginia, in
which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1896, with the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. He further qualified himself by serving
as an interne in the New York Polyclinic and later by becoming the
incumbent of the position of superintendent of the old Marion Street
Maternity Hospital in the national metropolis. After severing his
association with this institution the doctor engaged in the private
practice of his profession at Noroton, Fairfield County, Connecticut,
where he remained until 1902, in which year he came to Muskogee,
Oklahoma, where he has since continued in the successful practice of
medicine and surgery and where he has built up a substantial and
representative professional business that places him on strong
vantage-ground as one of the leading physicians of Muskogee County,
the while he has kept in close touch with the advances made in
medical and surgical science and has completed effective post-
graduate courses in leading professional institutions in the cities
of New York, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore and other places. The doctor
is a loyal and vigorous member of the Muskogee County Medical Society
and the Oklahoma State Medical Society, besides being actively
identified with the American Medical Association. From the time of
the admission of the State of Oklahoma to the Union, in 1907, until
his retirement in January, 1915, Doctor White served as a member of
the lunacy board of Muskogee County. He has contributed valuable
articles to the periodical literature of his profession, and some of
his articles have been published also in pamphlet form. He was one of
the organizers of the Oklahoma Baptist Hospital Association and has
served continuously as a member of the directorate of this
organization.

Doctor White is an uncompromising and zealous supporter of the cause
of the democratic party, and as a citizen is distinctively
progressive and public-spirited. In his home city he is affiliated
with the lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity and with the
lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, besides being a
popular member of the Rotary Club. Both he and his wife hold
membership in the Baptist Church. In 1901 Doctor White married Miss
Helen E. MCLAIN, who is a popular figure in the representative social
life of Muskogee.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Dorothy Marie Tenaza, December 10, 1998.