CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  John P. White - Austin, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pages 182-183 

JOHN P. WHITE.

John P. White, of Austin, was born at Fruit Hill near Abington, 
Virginia, March 7, 1832.  He was graduated from Emory and Henry 
College in 1850, receiving the Robertson medal for oratory, and 
then took a law course in the Univer­sity of Virginia.  In the 
latter institution he was selected as the anniversary orator of 
the Jefferson Literary Society.  He now read law for two years in 
the office of Hon. Samuel Logan and in 1853 was admitted to the bar 
and shortly thereafter removed to Texas, locating in Seguin.  His 
industry and talent soon won him recognition and he built up an 
extensive practice.  When the war came on in 1861 he raised and 
com­manded as captain Company E of the Sixth Texas Infantry, Col. 
Garland's regiment.  In 1874 he was appointed district judge by Gov. 
Coke, and in 1876 was elected one of the three judges of the Court 
of Appeals.  Upon the death of Judge Ector in 1879 he was elected 
presiding judge of the court. He was one of the original members of 
the same, serving upon its bench three terms, resigning April 26, 1892, 
after a continu­ous service of sixteen years.  The day after his 
resignation he was appointed reporter for the Court of Appeals, after-
wards the Court of Crimiual Appeals.  He is the author of several law 
text books, his Annotated Penal Code, and Anno­tated Code of Criminal 
Procedure with forms for pleading and practice, being highly regarded 
by the bar.  Judge White was married in 1853 to Miss Annie Stuart 
Lewis of Charlottes­ville, Va.  Their children are James L., Milton 
and Walter L. -all three well known lawyers in Austin; Annie L., 
wife of Dr. John Preston of Lockhart; Mary M., wife of B. M. 
Cren­shaw, of Austin; Dr. M. L. White, a dentist in New York City, 
and Miss Bessie White.  Judge White and the members of his family 
are staunch Episcopalians.  He has lived in Austin for the past 
fifteen years.