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Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918), American educator and diplomat, helped found Cornell University and became its first president.

Andrew Dickson White was born in Homer, N.Y., on Nov. 7, 1832. At the age of 17 he entered the Episcopal-oriented Geneva (Hobart) College in western New York, but he disliked it and after a year dropped out and entered Yale. Upon graduating in 1853, he and his friend Daniel Gilman went to Europe. White studied languages and history in Paris and Berlin, and during 1854-1855 he served for 6 months as an attaché to the American minister in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In 1856 White received his master of arts degree from Yale and then accepted an offer to be professor of history at the nonsectarian University of Michigan. The young, innovative teacher was an immediate success. During his 6 years there he conceived of a new university for central New York that would be shorn of outworn traditions and would offer the broadest opportunities for study in higher education.

When his father died in 1862, White returned to New York to handle the business affairs of his father's bank. In 1864 he became a state senator, and in the New York Legislature he joined with another senator, Ezra Cornell, on the problem of utilizing the land grant of the Morrill Act (1862), which provided the state with the means of offering education in agriculture and mechanical arts. White fought to concentrate the Federal aid in one institution, and Cornell agreed to give $500, 000 and land for a site to bolster that aim. The result was Cornell University, officially inaugurated in October 1868, with White as its president. He retired from this post in 1885.

During his years at Cornell, where White taught history as well as being chief administrator, he brought to reality his earlier concept of a nonsectarian, coeducational university where not only the classics but also modern subjects including science, agriculture, mechanical arts, and even military science would be taught - a place where every student could study just what interested him or her. White's reforms in teaching and in the curriculum gained him national attention.

White took a leave of absence from Cornell to serve as U.S. minister to Germany (1879-1881). After he retired from the university he served as U.S. minister to Russia (1892-1894) and U.S. ambassador to Germany (1897-1902). He was also minister to the Hague Peace Conference in 1899. He spent his later years in writing and influencing educational projects. He died on Nov. 4, 1918, in Ithaca, N.Y.

Further Reading

The main sources for White's life are Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White (2 vols., 1905), and Walter P. Rogers, Andrew D. White and the Modern University (1942). A good summary of his educational career is in Carl L. Becker, Cornell University: Founders and the Founding (1943).

Additional Sources

Altschuler, Glenn C., Andrew D. White, educator, historian, diplomat, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979.

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White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918, American educator and diplomat, b. Homer, N.Y., briefly attended Geneva (now Hobart) College, grad. Yale, 1853. He studied in France and Germany, served (1854-55) as attaché in St. Petersburg, and toured Europe. While teaching history (1857-63) at the Univ. of Michigan, he developed the idea of a university detached from all sects and parties and free to pursue truth without deference to dogma. After his father died (1860) he returned (1863) to New York a comparatively rich man. He sat (1864-67) in the New York state senate and was chairman of the education committee, which dealt with the founding of a land-grant college. With the financial aid of a fellow senator, Ezra Cornell, the land grant was made available for the institution that became Cornell Univ. White, as first president (1867-85), expanded the institution to teach not only agriculture and mechanical arts but also other fields of knowledge. He was one of the first educators to use the system of free elective studies. As Cornell was nonsectarian, the charge of "godlessness" was made against it. White, a practicing Episcopalian, maintained that freedom was beneficial to religion and wrote his History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896) and Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1910) to develop his concept of free inquiry. Later White was minister to Germany (1879-81) and to Russia (1892-94). He was also ambassador to Germany (1897-1902) and was chairman of the American delegation to the First Hague Conference (1899). He persuaded Andrew Carnegie to build the Palace of Justice to house the Hague Tribunal.

Bibliography

See his autobiography (1905); study by W. P. Rogers (1942).

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Andrew Dickson White

White in 1885
In office
1866 – 1885
Preceded by None
Succeeded by Charles Kendall Adams
In office
June 19, 1879 – August 15, 1881
Preceded by Bayard Taylor
Succeeded by Aaron Augustus Sargent
In office
1884 – 1885
Preceded by None
Succeeded by George Bancroft
In office
July 22, 1892 – October 1, 1894
Preceded by Charles Emory Smith
Succeeded by Clifton R. Breckinridge
In office
June 12, 1897 – November 27, 1902
Preceded by Edwin F. Uhl
Succeeded by Charlemagne Tower Jr.
Born November 7, 1832(1832-11-07)
Homer, New York
Died November 4, 1918, age 85
A.D. White House, Ithaca, NY
Resting place Sage Chapel, Ithaca, NY
42°26′50″N 76°29′05″W / 42.447307°N 76.484592°W / 42.447307; -76.484592Coordinates: 42°26′50″N 76°29′05″W / 42.447307°N 76.484592°W / 42.447307; -76.484592
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Mary A. Outwater (1859-1888)

Helen Magill (1890-1918)
Residence A.D. White House, Ithaca, NY
Alma mater Yale (A.B., M.A)
Religion Episcopalian[1]
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Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University.[2]

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Biography

Family and personal life

Andrew Dickson White was born on November 7, 1832 in Homer, New York to Clara (née Dickson) and Horace White.[3] Clara was the daughter of Andrew Dickson, a New York State Assemblyman, and Horace was the son of Asa White, a farmer from Massachusetts whose once successful farm was ruined by a fire when Horace was 13. [3] Horace, despite little formal education and an impoverished background, became a wealthy merchant and, in 1839, opened a successful bank in Syracuse. [4] Andrew Dickson White thus entered the world, never to experience the poverty his father and grandfather had. He was baptized in 1835 at the Calvary Episcopal Church on the town green in Homer.[5]

White married twice. He first married Mary Amanda Outwater (February 10, 1836 - June 8, 1887) on September 27, 1857 and they remained married until her death in 1887. Together, they had three children: Frederick Davies White, who committed suicide in 1901 after a prolonged series of illnesses while A.D. White was in Germany, Clara (White) Newbury, whom Andrew also outlived, and Ruth (White) Ferry. Following Mary's death in 1887, White went on a lecture tour and traveled in Europe with his close friend, Cornell's librarian, Daniel Willard Fiske.[6] In 1890, White married Helen Magill, the daughter of Swarthmore College's second president, Edward Magill She holds the distinction of being the first female Ph.D. recipient in the United States. Like her husband, Helen was a successful social scientist and educator and the two met at a conference where she was presenting. Together, Helen and Andrew had one daughter, Karin White.[6]

His cousin was Edwin White, an artist of the Luminism/Hudson River schools, [7], and his nephew was Horace White, governor of New York.

Education

Beginning in the fall of 1849, White spent his first year of college at Geneva College (known today as Hobart and William Smith College) at the insistence of his father.[8] He was inducted as member of Sigma Phi. In his autobiography, he recalled that he had felt that his time at Geneva was "wasted" at the small Episcopalian school, instead of "one of the larger New England universities".[8] Rather than continue "wasting" his time, White dropped out in 1850. After a resulting period estrangement from his father, White successfully convinced his father to allow him to transfer to Yale University.

White as a junior or senior at Yale, wearing his Skull and Bones pin

At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society and would remain close friends, traveling together in Europe after graduation and serving together on the Venezuela Boundary Commission (1895-96). His roommate was Thomas Frederick Davies, third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1889–1905.[4] Other members of White's graduating year included Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet and essayist, Wayne MacVeagh, Attorney General of the United States and U.S. Ambassador to Italy, and Hiram Bingham II, the missionary, collectively comprising the so-called "famous class of '53". [9] According to White, a great influence on his academic career was Professor Noah Porter (later, Yale's president), who personally instructed him in rhetoric and remained a close personal friend until Porter's death.[10]

Alpha Sigma Phi inducted White as a member in 1850 and he served as editor of the fraternity's publication, The Tomahawk. White remained active in the fraternity for the rest of his life, founding the Cornell chapter and serving as the national president from 1913-1915.[11] He also served as an editor of The Lit., known today as the Yale Literary Magazine and belonged to Linonia, a literary and debating society.[4] As a junior, White won the Yale literary prize for the best essay, writing on the topic "The Greater Distinctions in Statesmanship", a great shock to the campus as a senior traditionally wrote the winning essay.[4][12] Also as a junior, he joined the junior society Psi Upsilon. In his senior year, White won the Clark Prize for English disputation and the De Forest prize for public oratory, speaking on the topic "The Diplomatic History of Modern Times". A medal valued at $100, the De Forest prize was, at the time, the largest prize of its kind at any educational institution American or otherwise. [13] In White's honor, an anonymous donor later gave money endowing a prize for the best senior essay in American, European, or Third World history to be awarded in his name annually.[14][15] In addition to academic pursuits, White was on the Yale crew team and competed in the first running of the Harvard–Yale Regatta in 1852.[16]

After graduation, White left with his classmate Daniel Coit Gilman to travel and study further in Europe. Between 1853 and 1854, he studied at the Sorbonne, the College de France, and the University of Berlin. Following his time in Europe, White returned to Yale to earn an M.A. in History and be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 1856.[17]

Early professional life

In 1858, White accepted a position as a Professor of History and English literature at the University of Michigan, where he remained on faculty until 1863. White made his lasting mark on the grounds of the university by enrolling students to plant elms along the walkways on The Diag.[18]

Cornell University

Further information: History of Cornell University
White, in 1865, when he co-founded Cornell University with Ezra Cornell.

In 1863, White returned to reside in Syracuse for business reasons and, in November, was elected to the New York State Senate running on the Union Party ticket.[19] In the senate, White made the acquaintance of fellow upstate senator Ezra Cornell, a self-taught Quaker farmer from Ithaca who had made a modest fortune in the telegraph industry.[6] Around this time, the task came upon the senators to decide how to best use the higher education funding provided by the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, which allocated money in the form of timber land in the midwest that could be sold as states saw fit. Through effective management by Cornell, New York generated about $2.5 million (~$43 million in 2008 dollars) from its allotted scrip, a greater yield per acre than any state, except, perhaps, California.[20] The initial push in the senate was to divvy the funds amongst the numerous, small state colleges. White fervently opposed this proposal, arguing that the money would be more effectively used if it endowed only one university. Ezra Cornell agreed, telling White "I have about half a million dollars more than my family will need: what is the best thing I can do with it for the State?" To which, White immediately replied "The best thing you can do with it is to establish or strengthen some institution of higher learning."[6] The two thus combined their efforts to form a new university.

White pressed that the university should located on the hill in Syracuse (the current location of Syracuse University) due to the city's attractive transportation hub, which would ease the recruitment of faculty, students, and other persons of note. Cornell, however, insisted that the university be located in Ithaca on his large farm on East Hill, overlooking the town and Cayuga Lake. White ultimately relented and convinced Cornell to give his name to the university "in accordance with [the] time-honored American usage" of naming universities after their largest initial benefactors.[6] On February 7, 1865, White introduced a bill "to establish the Cornell University" and, on April 27, 1865, after a many month long debate, Governor Reuben E. Fenton signed into law the bill endowing Cornell University as the state's Land-Grant institution.

White became the school's first president and served as a professor in the Department of History. He commissioned Cornell's first architecture student William Henry Miller to build his mansion on campus.

Diplomatic career and later work

White's official portrait as ambassador to Russia (1892-94)

While at Cornell, in 1871, White took leave to serve as a Commissioner to Santo Domingo along with Benjamin Wade and Samuel Howe at the request of President Grant in order to determine the feasibility of an American annexation of the Dominican Republic. Though their report (available here) supported the annexation, Grant failed to gain political support to take further action. Later, White was the first U.S. Minister to Germany (1879-1881), and first president of the American Historical Association (1884-1886). Upstate New York Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to nominate him for governor in 1876 and for congress in 1886. Following his resignation as Cornell's President in 1885, White served as Minister to Russia (1892-1894), President of the American delegation to The Hague Peace Conference (1899), and as the first U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1897-1902).[21]

While serving in Russia, White—a noted bibliophile—made the acquaintance of author Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy's fascination with Mormonism sparked a similar interest in White, who had previously regarded the Latter-Day Saints (LDS) as a dangerous, deviant cult. Upon his return to the United States, White took advantage of Cornell's proximity to the original Mormon heartland near Rochester to amass a collection of LDS memorabilia (including many original copies of the Book of Mormon) unmatched by any other institution save the church itself and its university, Brigham Young University.

In 1891, Leland and Jane Stanford asked White to serve as the first president of the university they had founded in Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University. Although he refused their offer, he did recommend his former student David Starr Jordan.

Death

White's sarcophagus features important institutions in his life including nations where he had been an ambassador and universities where he had studied

On October 26, 1918, White suffered a slight paralytic stroke following a severe illness of several days.[6] On the morning of Monday, November 4, White died at home in Ithaca.[22] Three days later, on November 7, on what would have been White's 86th birthday, White was interred at Sage Chapel on the Cornell campus. The chapel was filled to capacity by faculty, trustees, and other well-wishers.[23] White's body resides in the Memorial Room with other people deemed influential in the founding and early years of the university, including co-founder Ezra Cornell and benefactor Jennie McGraw-Fiske. The Art Nouveau marble sarcophagus that holds his body features crests of countries and institutions that played important roles in White's life. For example, the picture on the right shows the crests of the two countries where White was an ambassador; the coat of arms of Imperial Germany is on left and Saint George, a variation on the coat of arms of Moscow, representing Russia, is on the right.

In his will, White left $500,000 (over $7 million in 2008 dollars) to Cornell University. White had already donated considerable sums to Cornell earlier in his life.

Legacy

Conflict thesis

At the time of Cornell's founding, White announced that it would be "an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion".[24] Up to that time, America's private universities were exclusively religious institutions, and generally focused on the liberal arts and religious training (though they were not explicitly antagonistic to science).

In 1869 White gave a lecture on "The Battle-Fields of Science", arguing that history showed the negative outcomes resulting from any attempt on the part of religion to interfere with the progress of science. Over the next 30 years he refined his analysis, expanding his case studies to include nearly every field of science over the entire history of Christianity, but also narrowing his target from "religion" through "ecclesiasticism" to "dogmatic theology."

The final result was the two-volume History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896), whose primary contention was the conflict thesis. Initially less popular than John William Draper's History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), White's book became an extremely influential text on the relationship between religion and science.

Cornell University

“ During my life, which is now extending beyond the allotted span of threescore and ten, I have been engaged after the manner of my countrymen, in many sorts of work, have become interested in many conditions of men have joined in many efforts which I hope have been of use; but, most of all, I have been interested in the founding and maintaining of Cornell University, and by the part I have taken in that, more than by any other work of my life I hope to be judged. ”

—Andrew Dickson White, The Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White (1904)

Gallery

1882 - Seated right of center with the Cornell faculty

1885 - Seen sitting on the far right with the founding members of the American Historical Association

1910

1915 - Featured in the New York Times

An undated photograph of White published in the Cornell Alumni Magazine on the occasion of his death

Circa about 1915 - Standing near his statue on the Cornell campus

The statue of White on the Cornell Arts Quad by Karl Bitter

White's mansion

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Andrew Dickson White". Encycolpedia.com. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Andrew_Dickson_White.aspx. Retrieved May 20, 2009. 
  2. ^ "Dr. A.D. White Dies; A Cornell Founder; President of University for 18 Years Dies in Ithaca Close to His 86th Birthday. Twice Envoy to Germany; Educator Who Sought to Broaden Scope of Colleges Had Also Served as Minister to Russia. Fought for Reform in Colleges. Spent Many Years in Education. His Gifts to Cornell," New York Times. November 5, 1918.
  3. ^ a b "'The White Family'". 'The Political Graveyard'. http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/13559.html. Retrieved May 15, 2009. 
  4. ^ a b c d "'ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, M.A., LL.D., L.H.D.'". 'Rootsweb'. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyononda/FAMILY/WHITE.HTM. Retrieved May 15, 2009. 
  5. ^ "Homer, N.Y.: A Town and its Hall". Village of Homer, NY. http://www.homerny.org/townhallhistory.pdf. Retrieved May 15, 2009. 
  6. ^ a b c d e f Andrew Dickson White. Cornell Alumni Magazine. November-December 1918. http://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/3536/34/021_07.pdf. Retrieved May 20, 2009. 
  7. ^ Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (D. Appleton and Company, 1889), pp. 467-8. With etching image of ADWhite, and signature reproduction.
  8. ^ a b White (1904), pg. 54
  9. ^ Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs (1909). Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine. p. 1174. http://books.google.com/books?id=3X-4t4qKo-IC&printsec=titlepage. 
  10. ^ White (1904), 31
  11. ^ ΑΣΦ. "ΑΣΦ - Rockledge". http://www.alphasig-rockledge.com/history.php. Retrieved May 22, 2009. 
  12. ^ White (1904), pg. 32
  13. ^ , "Yale College--The De Forest Prize.", New York Times, June 18, 1853, [1]
  14. ^ "Other Undergraduate Honors". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. May 21 - June 21 1999. http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v27.n33/story109.html. Retrieved May 24, 2009. 
  15. ^ Tom Tryniski. "Old Fulton Postcards". http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=42&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2Fnewspaper%25202%2FUnion%2520Springs%2520NY%2520Advertiser%2FUnion%2520Springs%2520NY%2520Advertiser%25201906-1908%2520pdf%2FUnion%2520Springs%2520NY%2520Advertiser%25201906-1908%2520-%25201223.pdf&ei=2m0ZStSjGKPFtgfR0MyBDQ&usg=AFQjCNGmDl0uIHCk5c9f0RN35EWvqmF3wA&sig2=o_V1gqR49q1YdpSNh9PhjA. Retrieved May 21, 2009. 
  16. ^ White (1904), pg. 33-4
  17. ^ Charles Elliott Fitch (1916). Encyclopedia of biography of New York. American Historical Society. pp. 321–326. http://books.google.com/books?id=qSoEAAAAYAAJ. 
  18. ^ http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/04/trees.php
  19. ^ "The State. Miscellaneous Returns". New York Times. November 4, 1863. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F06EED61138EF34BC4C53DFB7678388679FDE. Retrieved May 27, 2009. 
  20. ^ Clarence J. Karier (1986). The Individual, Society, and Education. University of Illinois Press. p. 68. 
  21. ^ http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/presidents/view_item.php?sec=3&sub=8 Retrieved 2008-01-30.
  22. ^ "Cornell University-Office of the President-Andrew Dickson White". Cornell University Office of the President. http://www.cornell.edu/president/history_bio_white.cfm. Retrieved May 20, 2009. 
  23. ^ Jacob Gould Schurman (1918). 26th Annual Report of the President. Cornell University. p. 5. http://books.google.com/books?id=MWfOAAAAMAAJ. 
  24. ^ Lindberg and Numbers 1986, pp. 2–3

Sources

  • White, Andrew Dickson (1904). Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White. The Century co.. 
  • Morris Bishop (1962). A History of Cornell. Cornell University Press. 

Selected works by White

For a more comprehensive list, see Bibliography of Andrew Dickson White
  • Outlines of a Course of Lectures on History (1861).
  • Syllabus of Lectures on Modern History (1876).
  • A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, 2 vols. (1896), online at Gutenberg text file.
  • Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1910).
  • The Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White (1911), online at Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White: Vol. 1, Vol. 2
  • "Fiat Money Inflation in France" (1912), Free E-Text available at LibertarianPress.com: [2]

Works about White

  • Altschuler, Glenn C. (1979), Andrew D. White — Educator, Historian, Diplomat, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
  • Drechsler, Wolfgang (1989), Andrew D. White in Germany. The Representative of the United States in Berlin, 1879-1881 and 1897-1902, Stuttgart: Heinz
  • Lindberg, David C., and Ronald L. Numbers (1986), "Introduction" to God & Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science, ed. Lindberg and Numbers, Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Lindberg and Numbers (1987), "Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science", Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 39:140-149 (accessible through an external link [3])
  • Engst, Elaine D. and Dimunation, Mark. A Legacy of Ideas: Andrew Dickson White and the Founding of the Cornell University Library (Ithaca: Cornell University Library, 1996) (accessible through an external link [4])

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See also: Andrew Dickson White House and Ivy League Presidents
Academic offices
Preceded by
(none)		 President of Cornell University
1866–1885		 Succeeded by
Charles Kendall Adams
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Bayard Taylor		 United States Ambassador to Germany
1879–1881		 Succeeded by
Aaron Augustus Sargent
Preceded by
Charles Emory Smith		 United States Ambassador to Russia
1892–1894		 Succeeded by
Clifton R. Breckinridge
Preceded by
Edwin F. Uhl		 United States Ambassador to Germany
1897–1902		 Succeeded by
Charlemagne Tower, Jr.
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