Clarence H. White, M. D.

Clarence H. White, M.D., practicing physician and surgeon at Reed City, was born June 12, 1848, in Erie Co., Pa. When he ws 12 years old his parents, Welcome W. and Abbie (horad) White, removed from the Keystone State to Chenango Co., N.Y. On the paternal side of his descent he is of mixed English and Irish origin. On his mother's side he descended from Henry Hoard, who went with his family in 1800 from Connecticut to the Holland Purchase in Western New York. He was a soldier of the Revolution and fought at its initiatory battle at Lexington, where he carried an old "Queen's Arm," a munition of war immortalized in the "Biglow Papers," and undoubtedly a fac-simile of the one that "Gran'ther Young brought back from Concord busted." It is a Queen Ann musket, and was issued by the English Government to the Indians im Canada to fight the French in their war with that people in 1754. The son of Henry Hoard, also named Henry, the maternal grandsire of Dr. White, enlisted in the service of the United States when the British made the attack on Buffalo, in 1812, and presented himself for duty armed with the musket that did service in the war of the Revolution. the weapon that bore a part in three wars is now in the possession of Dr. White.

On the removal of his parents to Chenango County, he became a student at the old Sherburne Academy and was graduated in 1867. On leaving school he began the study of homeopathy in the office of J.C. Owen. He came thence to St. John's, Clinton Co., Mich., two years later, and began to read for his profession with his Uncle, Oliver C. Joslin, remaining under his instructions until 1871. He attended one course of lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, and subsequently completed his studies at the Medical College at Fort Wayne, Ind. In 1871 he came to Paris, Mecosta County, then the terminus of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, where he began his practice and also engaged in the sale of drugs. He removed in 1877 to Hersey, and he continued his practice two years, sold his business and came to Reed City in the fall of 1878. Associated with his father, he erected the building in which he has since transacted his business.

Dr. White is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows and of the Masonic fraternity. He has served the county four years as Coroner, and has been Mayor of Reed City one year. He is the United States Pension Examing Surgeon, and in 1883, when the Board of Examing Surgeons was instituted, he was made its President, and still occupies the position. He is a member of the Northern Michigan Medical Society and the Surgeon of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad corporation.He was married July 1, 1877, to Anna M. Hardy. They have one child, Floyd G., born March 12, 1879, at Hersey. Mrs. White was born in 1856, at Cooperstown, N.Y., and is the daughter of William and Maria Hardy.

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