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At the age of twenty years he began his business career and in 1891 laid 

 the foundation of a concern which later was destined to develop into one 

 of the leading advertising establishments — The George Batten Company 

 — with branches in New York, Boston, and Chicago. As a member of the 

 1st Regiment National Guards of Pennsylvania, he served in the Pitts- 

 burgh riots. 



He was director of the American Jersey Cattle Club, life member of the 

 New York Agricultural Society, president of the Jersey Cattle Association 

 of New Jersey, member of American Game Protective Association, presi- 

 dent of Montclair Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, mem- 

 ber Colonial Society of Philadelphia, member Montclair Club, Montclair 

 Art Association, Outlook Club, Montclair Golf Club, Advertising Club of 

 New York and the Sphinx Club. A very good portrait of him may be 

 found in Bird-Lore for 1914, page 522. 



He was a man of high ideals, sound judgment and pleasing personality, 

 a combination of virtues which won for him many friends, who recognize 

 in his death a serious loss. — A. K. F. 



Dr. James Clarke White, an Associate of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union since 1913 was not a professional naturalist but throughout a busy 

 life as a physician never lost altogether the keen interest in natural history 

 of his early days. Born in Belfast, Maine, July 7, 1833, the fifth of seven 

 children of James Patterson and Mary Ann Clarke White, sturdy New 

 Englanders, he spent a boyhood in the healthy surroundings of a quiet 

 Maine town, picking up an education in the local schools and finally 

 entering Harvard College in 1849. He spent many leisure hours in the 

 college library, where he attracted the attention of the librarian Thaddeus 

 William Harris, on account of the frequency with which he asked for works 

 on natural history. He was keenly interested in the Harvard Natural 

 History Society, then a nourishing undergraduate association, with a 

 small museum, in which a collection of stuffed birds was one of the chief 

 exhibits. Of this collection he was "Curator" and writes that he spent 

 much time in mounting on perches the specimens he had shot during his 

 summer vacations. After his graduation at the age of twenty, he deter- 

 mined to study medicine and enrolled at the Tremont Medical School of 

 Boston, obtaining his medical degree in 1856. He was the first American 

 medical student to study at Vienna, where he took up the investigation of 

 diseases of the skin and laid the foundation for his later eminence as a 

 specialist in this branch of medicine. In 1857, he began a general medical 

 practice in Boston, and in 1871 was made Professor of Dermatology at 

 the Harvard Medical School, a position which he filled until his resignation 

 in 1902. He married Martha Anna Ellis of Boston, in 1862, and was 

 survived by two of his three sons. 



Although he took no active interest in ornithology in his later years, 

 he was an honored member of the Boston Society of Natural History, and 



