Knowles from NY to Detroit MI

My dad is Melbourne Knowles, Grand-Father is Fredrick, great-grand father is Frederick, he was a penmanship teacher in Carson City,Mi about the early 1895-1900, died of tuberculosis. Grand father was married to
Marie or Mary Aldridge of Bay City,Mi. Fredrick passed in 1967 in Ca. Family moved from NY through Ohio to Detroit. Any leads helpful.