The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Pawlet, Rutland county, Vermont, July 15, 1812. When but two or three years of age his parents, Gilbert and Polly Everts, removed to the town of Granville, Washington county. New York, and in 1819 they again packed their worldly goods and moved farther westward, to the town of Wheatland, Monroe county. New York. The family at that time consisted of Gilbert Everts, his wife, and three children. Mr. Everts, the elder, died in the last, mentioned county, February 14, 1827, and his wife followed him April 4, 1833.

Caleb Everts is the eldest of a family of seven children. After his mother's death he worked out by the month until 1836, in the fall of which year he started for Michigan. A friend had purchased land for him in Hillsdale county, and Mr. Everts made the trip to Michigan to examine it. He returned to New York the same autumn, and. on the 11th of December following (1836) was married to Harriet Middleton, a native of Monroe county. New York. In the spring of 1837 he visited Michigan a second time, and then returned to New York, where he worked a farm for three years. In the fall of 1840 he purchased the place where he now lives from Warren Hitchins, who had cleared and broken a couple of acres, and built a small log cabin. In the fall of 1841, Mr. Everts removed his family to Michigan, and settled on the farm he had purchased the year before. He was accompanied by his wife and two children.

Mrs. Everts was born April 21, 1817, in the town of Greece, Monroe county, New York, where her father, William Middleton, had settled before the now flourishing city of Rochester was much more than a lone hamlet in the woods. He was from the State of Connecticut.

Mr. and Mrs. Everts are the parents of seven children, born as follows: William T., September 24, 1837. Gilbert, February 11, 1840 ; died March 2, 1843. Gilbert T., November 26, 1843, Angenette, November 16, 1846. Caleb, September 6, 1848. Eugene O., March 4, 1850. Harriet M., December 16, 1855. William T. Everts was married to Helen Powers March 25, 1860 ; now living in Highland township. Gilbert Everts was married to Catharine Fletcher ; now living in Rose township. Angenette is the wife of Charles House, of Highland. Caleb married Lizzie Jones, and is now living at the old place with his father. Harriet M. Everts is now the wife of James Decker, and is living in Rose township.

When Mr. Everts and his family started for Michigan, they sent one load of goods from Brockport to Buffalo by canal, and transported another load overland. His cousin, Gershom Everts, and his sister came with Mr. Everts and family. From Buffalo they proceeded to Detroit, on the steamer "Milwaukee," and from Detroit to Rose by team. Mr. Everts' wagon had not been unloaded since he left his old home, and they were therefore enabled to start immediately from Detroit. Their passage up Lake Erie was attended by much rough weather. On arriving at their farm in Rose, they moved into the old log house built by Hitchins, and occupied it as it stood for about two years, when a frame addition (standing north of Mr. Everts' present residence) was built to it, , The fine frame house Mr. Everts now occupies was built in 1856, and he moved into it the fall of that year. Mr. Everts is politically a Democrat, having always voted with that party. He has held numerous township offices during his residence in Michigan. He is the present owner of eleven hundred and sixty-five acres of land, including two hundred and eighty acres near Owosso, Shiawassee county.

Mr. Everts' great-grandfather is said to have been the first one of the Everts amily who ever set foot on American soil. The family is of English descent. Gilbert Everts, the father of Caleb, served three months in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of Plattsburg, September 11, 1814