Found this bio - believe it is Calvin (Otis or Grover) White not Fred C (Fred C is one of his sons from his third marriage to Julia Turrell. Am still trying desperately to sort out this family noteably is this Calvin the father of Lorenzo H White b. abt 1818 NY m. Mary Smith Alverson and Mariah Antoinette White b. 4 Jun 1836 MI m. Lewis Homer Alverson? History of Macomb County pg 843=844 Fred C White, PO Romeo, was born in Poughkeepsie, Duchess Co, NY, July 10, 1803; is the son of Otis and Hannah (Atwell) White, the former was born near Boston and was a blacksmith; he belonged to the Puritan New England stock, and was a descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in America; he died in Osceola, Mich., aged 72 years; his wife died in Swansea, N. H., aged thirty-eight; she became the mother of eleven children, six of whom survived her. Mr. White is the only living representative of the father's family. Circumstances rendered labor necessary to all the family as soon as old enough, and Mr. White, at seventeen, entered upon an apprenticeship with a shoemaker, and received $20 a year; he served a second year with another instructor, and began a business for himself at Newark, in Arcadia, Wayne Co., NY,; he was married, April 4, 1824, to Abigail Adams, of Manchester, Ontario Co., NY, where she was born December 29, 1804; in October 1830, Mr. White ! started for Michigan; he met N T Taylor, of Romeo, at Buffalo, and came with him to Macomb County; his business proved unfortunate, and, on settling with his creditors, he found himself $300 in debt, with no resources and shattered health. But his friends were lenient, and gave him time, as he says, "to die or become able to pay them." He found suitable land four miles east of Romeo, in Armada, Proceeded to Detroit and secured it and went home; he set out for Michigan again the next spring with his wife and four children. Reaching Buffalo by canal, they found the city full of emigrants and the lake full of ice. Three weeks later, they left for Detroit, which they reached in three days. A man brought them to their place of destination for $10 and an axe, and when he was paid Mr. White had not a cent left. Darius Sessions took the family into his home, and in two days Mr. White had a shanty for his family furnished with two chairs and a little flour, ten pounds of pork a! nd a few dried apples; but the humble home was a house of prayer, and whatever else was lacking faith in God was abundant. Mr. White's trade soon made the family comfortable, and they have never since suffered from privation, although a large amount of sickness and death has overtaken them, and twelve children have been reared to maturity. The first year, he managed to chop three acres of land, and projected a "bee" for the logging, but an objection arose; he was a temperance man, and sacrificed no principle to profit, and men would not work without it. On the day appointed men and teams were on the ground and a good dinner awaited them, but trouble was apparent at the outset. A neighbor informed Mr. White that they were bound to put down the temperance movement in the bud, and if he would furnish a pint of whiskey, the logging would be done in short order. He refused, and part of the men put up about an acre of logs, the rest built a log-pen ten feet high, set a pole t! hirty feet high, and named the pile White's monument, and drank from a bottle of thier own providing. Mr. White is the only one living of the participants of that day, but their places are filled by intelligent, temperant, christian men. About three years after, sickness and disaster overtook Mr. White, and he accepted an offer of $500 for his place; he paid his debts in his native state, and settled on wild land two miles farther east. He cleared fifty acres and just as prosperity seemed about to dawn, his wife died and left six children. In a few months, Mr. White married the widow of Lyman Boughton; her maiden name was Julina, daughter of Joel and Mary (Gray) Turrell; she was born in Geneva, Cayuga Co, NY, November 29, 1815; her parents settled in Macomb County, in 1833, and died at the age of eighty-three respectively. Following is the list of Mr. White's children: Mary, Eliza, William, Charlotte, Eugene, Oscar and Maria Antoinette; these were the children of his f! irst wife, and the two last were born in Armada; Frank M, Almira, Louisa, and Fred C were born in Bruce; all have been married but the last. Mr. White has seventeen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren; his eldest son, William, was killed at the raising of a barn in St. Clair; Eugene and Oscar were killed within ten minutes of each other in the war of the rebellion; Charlotte died with the scarlett fever and Almira with consumption; five sons-in-law are deceased. Mr. White became a Christian in 1830, and joined the Presbyterian Church in Newark. He transferred his membership to the Congregational Church in Romeo, the next year; his wife and four daughters belong to the same church.