Bio of WHITE, Dr. Solon Marx (b.1873), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 562-565
SOLON MARX WHITE, M. D.
Dr. Solon Marx White, a Minneapolis physician, specializing in internal medicine
and identified with the Nicollet Clinic, was born in Hokah, this state, on the
16th of July, 1873, and is a son of Dr. Solon C. and Anna (Armstrong) White, the
former a native of Canada, while the latter was born in Washington county, New
York, whence she removed to Wisconsin about 1859 and later became a resident of
Minnesota. Solon C. White also devoted his life to the medical profession and
engaged in practice in Hokah for a number of years. His uncle, Ebenezer Vining
White, was the first president of the Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis and
later moved to Gladstone, Michigan, where he passed away at the notable old age
of ninety-four years.
Solon Marx White pursued his elementary education in the public schools of
Sandwich, Illinois, and afterward attended the State University at Champaign,
Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1895, with the Bachelor of Science
degree. Having determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work he
matriculated in the Northwestern Medical College at Chicago in 1897 and
completed a full course there. Following his graduation he became interne in
Cook County Hospital at Chicago, filling the position for eighteen months and
gaining that broad and valuable experience which is never secured as quickly in
any other way as in hospital work. On the 1st of December, 1898, he came to
Minneapolis as instructor of pathology and bacteriology in the medical
department of the University of Minnesota and in 1915 he was made professor of
medicine in the university and in 1921 chief of the department of medicine in
the medical school. He also became chief of the medical staff of the University
Hospital in 1920 and so continues. His entire professional career has been one
of steady progress and of constantly broadening scope and power. He took a
helpful part in war activities, being chief of the medical service at Base
Hospital, No. 26, with the rank of major and thus he served in France until
after the signing of the armistice in 1918. He was in the service altogether for
more than a year, most of the time overseas. Dr. White had previously pursued
postgraduate study in Vienna, Austria, in 1904, and in Vienna, Berlin and London
in 1914, having been in London with his family when war was declared.
On the 25th of July, 1900, Dr. White was married to Miss Sara Miner Abbott of
Sandwich, Illinois, and they have become parents of three children: Asher Miner
Abbott, Anna Elizabeth and Mary Grace. The religious faith of the family is that
of the First Baptist church and Dr. White is one of the church officials. He
belongs to the Midland Hills Golf Club. He also has membership in the
Minne­apolis Club and in the Skylight Club, but the major part of his attention
is given to his professional interests and duties and to that end he is
constantly broaden­ing his knowledge and promoting his efficiency. He has
membership in the American Medical Association, the Minneapolis Medical Society,
the Minnesota Medical Society, the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, the
Association of American Physicians and the Central Interurban Clinical
Club-organizations in which his ability is recognized, his colleagues and
contemporaries in the profession bearing testimony to his eminent position and
his highly developed skill.