WHITE, Andrew Dickson, American diplomat, educator and author: b. Homer, N. Y., 7 Nov. 1832; d. Ithaca, N. Y., 4 Nov. 191& i He was graduated from Yale in 1853 and studied at the College of France, Paris, and at the University of Berlin. He was attache of the American legation at Saint Petersburg in 1854-55 at the time of the Crimean War, and in 1857, shortly after his return to the United States, became professor of history and English literature at the University of Michi gan. In 1863 he returned to Syracuse and was elected to the New York State senate, where he was especially interested in educational leg islation, obtaining the passage of bills organiz ing the State normal system and providing for the codifying of the educational laws. He also had an Important part in the founding and organization of Cornell University, contribut ing $300,000 for the purpose, and also procuring for that institution the national land grant for agricultural colleges; in 1867 he became president of the university and was also pro fessor of history. He maintained his connec tion with Cornell until 1885, when he resigned both presidency and professorship. He gave to the university his excellent historical library of about 30,000 volumes, and on the acceptance of this gift the departments of history and economics were reorganized as the White School of History and Political Science. While
president of Cornell, he was also active in pub lic affairs; in 1871 was one of a commission to study and report on the desirability of annexing Santo Domingo; in 1878 was honorary com missioner to the Paris Exposition, and in 1879 8l Minister to Germany, during which time he had lease of absence from the university. In
he was Minister to Russia; in 1896 was one of the commissioners to investigate the Venezittla boundary question, and in 1897 1Q02 was Ambassador to Germany, holding that position longer than any other American Min ister. Before his retirement from the German Ambassadorship he was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. In 1899 he was president of the United States delegation to The Hague Peace Conference. He retired from public life in 1Q02 and passed his remain ing years at Ithaca. His published works in clude 'History of the Warfare of Science against Theology' (1898), an enlargement of his 'Warfare of Science' (1876); 'Studies in General History);