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Smith (DANIEL APPLETON WHITE)

DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, an American missionary, born at Waterville, Me., in 1840. 1840. He was educated at Harvard University and the Newton Theological Institution. After having been ordained a Baptist minister in 1862, he devoted himself to missionary work, becoming president of the Karen Theological Seminary at Insein, Burma, in 1876. He served until 1916, when he became president emeritus, and was also editor of the "Morning Star," a Karen monthly. He wrote "Sketch of the Life of E. A. Stevens" (1886); "Sound Principles of Interpretation" (1902); "Sermonizing and Preaching" (1904); and various Bible annotations and commentaries in the Karen language.