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Frank L. White (c. 1867 – February 15 1938) was an African American chef best known as the model featured on Cream of Wheat breakfast cereal boxes. White was born in Barbados in 1867 before immigrating to the U.S. in 1875 and becoming a citizen in 1890. White lived much of his life in Leslie Michigan and was working as a master chef at a Chicago restaurant at the time he was photographed for the cereal box in 1900.
