Henry Clay White

After graduation from the University of Virginia, he briefly worked at a chemical company in Baltimore and lectured at what would later become the Maryland Institute College of Art.^[4]

From 1871 to 1872, he was a professor at St. John's College in Annapolis, but he left before the end of the term to take up a post at the University of Georgia.^[4]

From 1872 to 1927, he was professor of chemistry at the University of Georgia.^[5] In 1893 he was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.^[2]

In 1909, he organized a conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.^[4]

In 1926, he wrote a biography on Abraham Baldwin, the founder of the University of Georgia.^[6]

He died on November 30, 1927, in Athens, Georgia.^[2][5]

He married Ella Frances Roberts on December 19, 1872.^[7] They had no children.^[4]