G. A. WHITE, M. D.

G. A. White, M. D., County Physician, was born in Howard County, Missouri, December 20, 1848; came to California in 1864; attended school in Sacramento, and here also studied medicine in the office of Dr. G. L. Simmons, in this city, and continued his studies in the office of Dr. H. L. Nichols; graduated at the Long Island Medical College in the class of 1869, and at the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, in the class of 1870. Returning to California he first practice his profession at Davisville for three or four months, and then removed to Sacramento and became an assistant to Dr. A. C. Donaldson, the county physician, who had partially retired from practice. The County Hospital was then at the corner of Tenth and L streets, in Sacramento. The next year the patients were removed to the new building, and the Doctor changed residence accordingly. Owing to the increasing infirmities of Dr. Donaldson, Dr. White was appointed to succeed him in office in March, 1872; and since that date, with the exception of one term of two years (1879-’80), he has held that position. (See History of the hospital elsewhere in this volume.) In 1868 Dr. White married Miss Cora J. Smith, of Butte County, who had emigrated from that part of Missouri where the Doctor had passed his boyhood, and even during the same year that he came West. They have two sons and two daughters living. Their eldest daughter and youngest son are deceased. The Doctor is a member of the orders of Freemasons, Red Men and United Workmen, and in politics is Democratic. Is also a member of the national and the county medical associations.

Transcribed by Karen L. Pratt, October 10, 2004.