The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Center Township, pages 541-542
Charles A. White, M.D., was born near Salem, the county seat of Washington County, Ind., Jan. 4, 1845. His parents were Maximilian and Martha (Miles) White. He removed with them to Hendricks County in the autumn of 1851, locating in Liberty Township, two miles south of Belleville, then the principal business town in the county. He was reared a farmer, and received a good common school education. At the age of nineteen he began the study of medicine in the office of Drs. R.C. Moore and L.H. Kennedy, at Belleville, remaining under their preceptorship about four years, entering Rush Medical College, Chicago, in the class of 1867-'68. In the spring of 1868 he began the practice of medicine in Monroe County, Ind., near Bloomington. He formed a partnership with John Dancer, M.D., of South Milford, LaGrange Co., Ind., March 15, 1869, with whom he remained for two years, during which time he took a second course of lectures and instruction at Rush Medical College, where he graduated Feb. 1, 18871, and was unanimously chosen by the class numbering eighty-five, to deliver the valedictory address. In April following his graduation he located at the flourishing village of Wolcottville, LaGrange Co., Ind., continuing his partnership with Dr. Dancer, which relation was sustained until April 1, 1873, when on account of the failing health of his wife he returned to Hendricks County, the place of her birth, and home of their parents. He located in Danville Jan. 1, 1874, having formed a partnership with Henry G. Todd, M.D., for a period of three years. From March, 1878, till Oct. 1879, he had associated with him in the practice, Wilson T. Lawson, M.D., since which time he has practiced alone. Jan. 21, 1873, he married Miss Dee a., daughter of Toliver B. and Matilda (Gill) Miller, near Clayton, Hendricks County. They have had born to them two children--Geraldine Max Miller, born June 14, 1880, and Glyndon De Laskie Miller, born Nov. 1, 1881. Dr. and Mrs. White are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Danville. He was made a Master Mason in Ionic Lodge, at Wolcottville, in 1870. He is a Royal Arch and Council Mason, has passed the chair of Worshipful Master in both the lodges to which he has belonged, which station he now holds in Western Star Lodge, No. 26, F. & A.M., of Danville. He is a member of the county and State medical societies. He served as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers, during the war of the Rebellion.