physician, author, local historian, b. Kinross, Scotland. He migrated with his parents to the U.S. and to Wisconsin in 1855, settling in Watertown. He graduated from Northwestern Univ. (M.D., 1873), interned at Mercy Hospital, Chicago (1873-1874), and from 1874 to 1914 practiced medicine in Watertown. Whyte was a member of the State Board of Health (1898-1924), and was its president from 1903 to 1924. He was the author of numerous articles on local and Wisconsin history, and served for many years as a curator of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. After retiring from active practice in 1914, he moved to Madison, where he made his home until his death. Wis. Mag. Hist., 10; Wis. State Board of Health, Bull., 4 (12), 1926; Madison Wis. State Journal, Dec. 26, 1926; W. F. Whyte Papers.

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