Union-Drew County ArArchives Biographies.....White, Daphney E. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/arfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Sanchez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006574 August 16, 2009, 8:05 pm Source: See Full Citation Below Biography Author: S. J. Clarke DAPHNEY E. WHITE, M. D. Dr. Daphney E. White, a well known physician and surgeon of El Dorado, was born in Monticello, Arkansas, February 22, 1898. His parents, John W. and Elizabeth (Rog-land) White, are both representatives of old southern families. The father was born in Drew county, Arkansas, while the mother's birth occurred in Macon, Georgia. They have resided continuously in Drew county and in Monticello since their marriage, having for the last thirty years made their home in Monticello. Mr. White served as sheriff of Drew county for a period of four years and has long been prominently known throughout the southern part of the state as a leading dealer in live stock. Dr. White, having completed a course in the Monticello high school, spent one year in the pursuit of a premedical course in the University of Arkansas and then devoted four years to the study of medicine in Vanderbilt University of Tennessee. There he won his M. D. degree as a member of the class of 1919 and made high standing, becoming the honor man of the class, being awarded the Founder's Medal, which is conferred upon the scholar having the highest average during the four years' course. He was also further honored by being made president of the scholarship fraternity known as the Phi Kappa Chi, membership in this fraternity requiring a yearly average of not less than ninety for the first three years. These high positions to which he attained indicates the splendid work he did through his university course, thus qualifying for the great responsibilities that devolve upon the physician and surgeon. Following his graduation he served as interne for eighteen months in Vassar Brothers Hospital at Poughkeepsie, New York, and during that period took special instruction in eye, ear, nose and throat work. In June, 1921, be came to El Dorado and entered upon the active practice of the profession in partnership with Dr. Cathey, thus forming the medical firm of Cathey and White. In this connection Dr. White specializes upon diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, while his partner gives his attention to other divisions of medical and surgical practice, mainly surgery. The firm is recognized as one of prominence in southern Arkansas and Dr. White is accorded high rank by reason of his splendidly developed ability in his chosen field. He belongs to the medical fraternity, the Phi Beta Pi. also has membership in the Union County Medical Society, the Arkansas State Medical Society, the Tri-State Medical Society, the Nashville Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association. On the 29th of June. 1919, Dr. White was united in marriage to Miss Mary Lynn Jaggers of Monticello, Arkansas. Dr. and Mrs. White occupy an enviable social position and they hold membership in the Presbyterian church, their interest centering in those channels through which flows the greatest good to the greatest number. Additional Comments: Citation: Centennial History of Arkansas Volume II Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1922 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/union/bios/white423bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/arfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb