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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 306.



W. D. WHITE M. D.
Abbeville, LA

Dr. W. D. White was born in Franklin, Williamson county,
Tennessee, August 31, 1836. He is one of a family of nine
children born to Benj. R. and Eliza M. (Kennv) White. His
father was a native of North Carolina. He removed to Tennessee.
where he received his education and learned the carpenter's
trade. In I859 he removed with his family to Opelousas where he
died  in 1870.  The mother of Dr. White was native of South
Carolina.  She died in Opelousas in 1873.  Dr. White receivefl
his literary training at Shelbyville University. He learned the
carpenter's trade after leaving school and worked at this for a
short while. At the age of twenty-one years he entered the
medical school of the University of Nashville, from which he
graduated in 1860. He first practised his profession in Franklin
county, Tennessee, from whence he remove to Vermilion parish, and
the last twenty years has resided in Abbeville . He has
served as parish coroner for fifteen consecutive years. Dr.
White's experience coulpled with his extended learning make him a
physician of high merit. The Doctor has been successful in a
financial sense and owns considerable property in Vermilion
parish.  He was married in 1862 to Miss L. R. Lyons, daughter of
A. and Elizabeth (Reeves) Lyons. To this union fourteen
children have been born, seven sons  and seven daughters, eight
of whom are living, viz: James E., Mary E., Carrie. H. Bascom,
Elizabeth, Rosa;  Thomas,  Milton.   Dr. White is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, Knights Templar and K. of H.