“Dr. Henry M. White was a man of distinguished appearance, sweetness of disposition and geniality in his association with all classes and kinds of man. He was thoroughly skilled in parliamentary discussions on the floor of Presbytery and Synod, a keen debater and a man of the most delicate humor. According to Dr. Hervey Woods he had an inimitable turkey story: — When after a hot debate he had been outvoted, he would say ‘well old fellow, in the words of the hunter to a broken wing-gobbler running away from him in the brush, I didn’t get you; but you’ll have to roost mighty low all the rest of your life.’” — Robert B. Woodworth, A History of the Presbyterian Church in Winchester, Virginia, 1780-1949 (1950), pp. 121-122