Raleigh R. White, Jr., M.D.

Born December 10, 1871, in Tippah County, Mississippi, Raleigh R. White, Jr., was the son of the Rev. Raleigh White, Sr., and Anna Davidson White. The Rev. Mr. White had trained as a physician, but became a Baptist minister who served a number of Texas churches after moving his family to Texas in 1882. Raleigh White, Jr., attended Baylor University and graduated from Tulane University Department of Medicine in 1893 at the age of 21. White practiced medicine in Cameron for about eighteen months before moving to Temple in 1895 when Dr. Arthur C. Scott hired him to serve as house physician at the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Hospital. Doctors Scott and White formed a medical practice partnership, and were named joint Chief Surgeons of the Santa Fe Railway in 1897. Their practice flourished, and in 1904 they established their own hospital named the Temple Sanitarium, now Scott & White Hospital. Dr. White, a gifted business partner and renowned surgeon, developed a treatment for cancer an actively promoted ethical and humane treatment of patients. Active in a number of medical associations, White contributed greatly to medicine in Texas until his early death in 1917 at age 45. (1997)

Raleigh R. White, Jr., M.D. is a historical marker in Temple, Bell County, dedicated in 1997. It is one of 226 historical markers documented in Bell County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 411 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.0784, -97.3641 near Temple. The nearest cataloged historic site is George Valter Brindley, Sr., M.D. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Arthur Carroll Scott, Sr., M.D., Scott & White Hospital, and Anna Laura Cole.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5027004169. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.