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of the company. In 1877 he was made vice president of the corporation, and in 1890 sue- ceeded to the presidency. In 1891 this com- pany, together with the Southern and Collier Lead & Oil Companies, of St. Louis, amalga- mated their interests with those of the Na- tional Lead Company, and Mr. Carpenter was then placed in charge of all the interests of this great corporation in St. Louis. A man of broad business capacity and superior ex- ecutive ability, his activities during the later years of his life have covered a wide field of enterprise, and besides giving attention to the affairs of the National Lead Company, he is at the present time interested in and officially identified with the National Bank of Commerce, of St. Louis; the Tudor Iron Works, the St. Louis Safe Deposit & Sav- ings Bank, the St. Louis Smelting & Refin- ing Company, the St. Louis, Peoria & Northern Railway, and the Madison Coal Company, corporations representing, in the aggregate, large commercial, industrial and financial interests .. April 7, 1880, lie married Miss Caroline G. Greeley, daughter of A. G. Greeley, of Boston, and has two sons, George Oliver Carpenter, Jr., and Kenneth Greeley Carpenter. Mrs. Carpenter is well known as an active participant in the work of the leading literary and benevolent organizations of women in St. Louis.
Carpenter, James M., was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, October 15, 1832. He was reared in that State and educated at old Centre College, of Danville. Coming to St. Louis, a youth of seventeen years of age, in 1850, he began his business career as collector for the Phoenix Insurance Company, at a salary of ten dollars a month. That his work was satisfactory to his employers is attested by the fact that within a year he was recom- mended by them for a much more lucrative and responsible position, and became book- " keeper and cashier for the executors of the estate of Judge Bryan Mullanphy. This posi- tion he filled until the Mullanphy Relief Board was organized, when he was elected its first secretary. While filling this position he studied law for a time, but, becoming in- terested in real estate operations and finding this business to his liking, he turned his attention in this direction and has devoted his time and talents, for many years, to the development of the real estate interests of
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the city. He is president of the Rex Realty Company. and vice president of the Rex Mining Company, with mines at Joplin, Mis- souri, and operating one of the most import- ant mining enterprises in that portion of the State. He is also vice president and next to the largest shareholder in the Lindell Real Estate Company : has been president of the Jefferson Bank, and is now a member of the board of directors of that bank, and is presi- dent of the Hope Mutual Fire Insurance Company. For many years he has been a prominent layman of the Presbyterian Church, and is president of the board of trustees and deacons of Compton Avenue Church of that denomination. January 11. 1859. Mr. Carpenter married Miss Caroline Clarkson, daughter of Dr. Il. M. Clarkson, a native of Virginia, but for many years a resi- dent of Columbia, Missouri.
Carr, Alfred W., was born in Ken- tucky, in 1804, and educated at Transylvania University, at Lexington, in that State. In 1821 he came to Missouri and entered on the practice of law in the St. Charles Circuit. He gave great promise of usefulness and emi- nence, for he was the descendant of a family that had achieved high positions at the bar and in the field in Kentucky, but he died at an early age. His descendants are still living in St. Louis.
Carr, Edward Dwight, dentist, Kansas City, was born May 10. 1852, in Truxton, Cortland County, New York, son of Delevan W. and Lovenia D. (Buck) Carr. Both the father and mother were natives of that portion of the State of New York in which Edward Dwight Carr spent his early days, and the lineage is of the forceful Scotch-Irish union, furnishing a family record in which pride is amply justified. The son, Edward Dwight, was educated in the Normal School of Cortland, New York, where the preparatory foundation was laid, and later he attended the Homer Academy, an institution of learning in that vicinity. The study of the profession of dentistry was begun in the dental department of Harvard College, and the prescribed course was completed so that graduation honors were realized February II, 1874, the degree of D. M. D. being con- ferred. Dr. Carr's first location for the practice of dentistry was at DeRuyter, New
York, where he remained two years. He then followed an inclination to remove to the West and the objective point was Kansas City, Missouri, where he has continuously re- sided since that time. In the fall of 1877 he established the first dental depot in Kan- sas City, it being the supply house for the dentists of a vast stretch of territory. In this business he continued until 1881. when he sold the stock and, at the close of another vear, resumed the active practice of his pro- fession. This early experience in the work of supplying the dentists of the West with materials and instruments for their profes- sional needs won for him a wide acquaint- ance, and the name of this representative of dentistry was known throughout all the fertile country tributary to Kansas City. It was then a pioneer industry that flourished as it grew and it builded for its owner a reputa- tion that has been fruitful throughout the succeeding years. Since 1882 Dr. Carr has been prominently identified in his profession and he has also been a factor in the social affairs of the circle in which he moves. Although not a political worker. he is a be- liever in the principles of Democracy and is an earnest advocate of that party's funda- mental principles. He is connected with the Church of This World and holds a sitting in Dr. Roberts' church in Kansas City. In the world of secrets he holds memberships in the Woodmen of the World, the Independent Order of Heptasophs, the Independent Order of Foresters and the Court of Honor. lle was married October 7. 1882, to Miss A. F. Gorton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Gorton, of New Cambria. Missouri. The father of Mrs. Carr was prominently con- nected with the early history of eastern Missouri and was actively identified with the growth of Macon County during its develop- ment period. To Dr. and Mrs. Carr two children have been born, and with their parents they enjoy the ideal. modest home life. The head of the family, although unas- suming in manner. holds the confidence of his friends and acquaintances, and his career stands out as an important part of the his- tory of dentistry in western Missouri.
Carr, Robert E., manufacturer, banker and railroad president, was born August 8, 1827, in Lexington, Kentucky, and received a common school education. In 1847 he
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came to St. Louis and began life there as clerk in an iron foundry, at a salary of four hundred dollars a year. His genius for the conduct of affairs gained for him rapid promotion, and in the course of a few years he became a partner in the business, which was conducted with great success under the firm name of Dowdell, Carr & Co., until 1856. Ile retired from this business in that year, on account of ill health, but later became cashier of the Exchange Bank, and still later president of that institution. In 1868 he made a tour of Europe with his family, and soon after his return took a contract for building the Denver Pacific Railroad, which he completed in 1870. He was elected presi- dent of the Kansas City Railroad Company in 1871, and later he was also president of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Company. A man of the highest adminis- trative ability and fine social qualities, he was one of the most popular as well as one of the most widely known business men of St. Louis during the years of his active life.
Carr, William (,, was born in Albe- marle County, Virginia, April 15, 1783, and after studying law came to St. Louis in 1804. After remaining there a short time, he went to Ste. Genevieve, which seemed to be a more promising place, and there located ; but, after practicing his profession for a year, he re- turned to St. Louis, and made it his perma- nent home. His abilities and learning soon brought him into prominence, and in 1826 he was appointed by Governor Miller judge of the circuit court, a position which he held for eight years, retiring to private life in 1834. His circuit embraced five counties and ex- tended to the Arkansas line, and was a favorite field of practice for young St. Louis lawyers-among them Hamilton R. Gamble. afterward governor of the State; John F. Darby, afterward member of Congress and mayor of the city; Edward Bates, afterward Attorney General in President Lincoln's first cabinet, and Henry S. Geyer, afterward United States Senator. In 1832 charges of neglect of duty, incapacity and favoritism were brought against him, and articles of im- peachment were adopted by the Legislature, but on the protracted trial that followed he was acquitted. On his death there was a meeting of the bar, at which resolutions of respect were adopted. In 1834 he resigned
his judgeship and retired to private life, and died in 1851, at the age of sixty-eight years.
Carrington, William Thomas, edu- cator, editor and public official, was born January 23, 1854, in Callaway County, Mis- souri. His father, William Carrington, who was a native of Kentucky, was born June 2, 1815, in Montgomery County, and emigrated to Missouri with his father in 1826, settling in Callaway County. Mr. Carrington's grandfather. Randolph Carrington, was a native of Virginia and after emigrating to Missouri was a prominent citizen of Callaway County until his death in 1840. He was buried in the family burying ground, now the public cemetery of the town of Carring- ton, named after William T. Carrington's father. The Carrington family of Virginia, from which the subject of this sketch de- scends, is very large and traces its ancestry back to General Paul Carrington, who served with distinction in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Carrington's mother's maiden name was Susan Fisher, and she also was a native of Callaway County. Her father was Thomas Fisher, and her mother's maiden name was Humphreys. Mr. Carrington was educated in Sugar Grove Academy and Westminster College at Fulton, and later took a course at Kirksville State Normal School. He com- menced teaching in 1872 in the rural schools of Callaway County. He taught three winter schools, spending the remainder of the four years, from 1872 to 1876, in pursuing his studies at college. In 1876 he located at Piedmont, Wayne County, Missouri, where he remained two years teaching, and then spent one year at Arrow Rock, Missouri. He was next principal of the high school at Oak Ridge, Missouri, for two years, and was engaged for two years as superintendent of the public school of Cape Girardeau. Aban- doning teaching for a season, he removed to Jefferson City, where he accepted the posi- tion of chief clerk to the state superintendent of public schools. He remained there four years in this capacity, and then went to Springfield, Missouri, where he served as principal of the high school for five years. At the expiration of this engagement he was selected as superintendent of the public schools of Mexico, Missouri. After remain- ing at Mexico two years, he was induced to return to Springfield and take the principal-
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ship of the high school. This position he retained until December, 1898, when, having been elected State superintendent of public schools, he resigned. While chief clerk in the office of the State superintendent of public schools he founded the "Missouri School Journal," which rapidly attained an influential standing in educational circles. In 1888 he was elected president of the State Teachers' Association, of which he has not missed an annual meeting since 1874. When a boy, Superintendent Carrington had an experience of some years of roughing it in the woods, being engaged with his father in supplying railroad timbers and ties. This experience he regards as one of the most valuable of his life, as it gave him an insight into the character and worth of laboring men that has been invaluable to him. In politics he has always been a Democrat, but never sought or held public office until elected State superintendent of public schools, with the exception of holding the office of school commissioner of Cape Girardeau County from 1881 to 1883. He is a member of the Christian Church-although raised a Cum- berland Presbyterian-and is an active church worker and has held the position of deacon in his congregation. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic Lodge and also of the Order of Modern Woodmen. He was mar- ried in 1879 to Miss Mary Dillard Holloway, of Saline County, Missouri, daughter of John T. and Nannie (Batterton) Holloway. Her ancestors emigrated from Kentucky, and settled in Boone County, but her parents removed to Saline County, where her father was a prosperous farmer. Her grandfather on her mother's side was Lemuel Batterton, the founder of a large family in Boone County. Superintendent Carrington's father was for many years one of the most prom- inent citizens of Callaway County. He held the office of judge of the county court almost continuously for thirty years, from 1854 to 1884, and took a prominent part in bringing about a compromise in the celebrated bond case between the county and its bondholders. Superintendent Carrington, as an educator, has begun an educational campaign in favor of getting away from abstractions. formalities and anthority, to more concrete presenta- tions and to literature. He places culture studies above formal studies, and it is be- lieved that his administration will have a most
wholesome effect, more especially on the rural and village schools of the State.
Carroll, Charles Cecilius, lawyer, was born October 10, 18to, in Somerset County, Maryland, son of Colonel Henry James Carroll and Elizabeth Barnes (King) Carroll. The house in which he was born was the ancestral home of the King family, built by Sir Thomas King, baronet, of Ire- land, in the year 1083. This Irish nobleman came to America to escape religious persecu- tion, and was one of the founders of Pres- byterianism in the colony of Maryland. Rev. John Henry and Rev. John Hampton, both descendants of the King family, were among the founders of the first Presbytery in Phila- delphia, in 1716. From Sir Thomas King sprang several of the most distinguished families of Virginia and Maryland. Colonel Thomas King, of Revolutionary fame, was one of these, and his daughter, who became the wife of Colonel Henry James Carroll, was sole heiress to his estate. Colonel Car- roll, the father of Charles Cecilins Carroll, belonged to the family of Carrolls, of Carroll- ton, and Charles Carroll, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, was his cousin. After his marriage, Colonel Henry James Carroll continued to reside at Kingston Hall, the name which had been given to the King homestead, and there his children were born and reared. Charles Collins Carroll live.I there until his marriage, after which he settled in Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland. Having been educated for the law, he practiced his profession there until 1834, when he removed to Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland. During his residence there he served two terms in the State Legislature and gained prominence, both as a public man and as a lawyer. His brother, Thomas King Carroll, was for miny vears a distinguished citizen of Maryland, and was at one time governor of that State. In 1837 Charles C. Carroll removed to St. Louis and engaged in the practice of his profession in that city. He was long a prominent member of the bar, and was an honored resident of the city until his death, which occurred June 16, 1882. He was twice married, first, in 1829, to AAnn Olivia Smith, and after her death. to Sarah Elizabeth Belt. who became his wife in 1848.
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Carroll, Christopher J., was born December 24, 1866, in East Hartford, Con- necticut. His parents, Edward J. and Mary (Ruth) Carroll, were both born in Ireland, but came to this country with their parents in infancy, the families locating in Hartford, Connecticut. The grandparents of the sub- ject of this sketch died in Hartford County at very advanced ages. Edward J. Carroll is still living at the age of sixty-six years, and his wife is sixty-three years old. They have eight living children. C. J. Carroll received his early education in the public schools of East Hartford, Connecticut, and entered the high school in Hartford. He then took a course in a Hartford business college and, leaving that institution during his seven- teenth year, entered the employ of the Hart- ford Rubber Works as bookkeeper. He was also employed in this capacity by John W. Gray & Co., and gave early evidence of business tact and ability. In 1887 he removed to Kansas City, Missouri, and was employed by the Kaw Valley Iron Works as bookkeeper. Later he entered the Amer- ican National Bank in Kansas City, doing clerical work. In 1892 Mr. Carroll went to New York and took a course in the United States College of Embalming, having decided to give his attention to the undertaking busi- ness. He returned to Kansas City two years Jater and opened an undertaking establish- ment. He opened his present large under- taking parlors at 1222 McGee Street, Kansas City, in 1895, and has built up a large business, under the name of the Carroll- Davidson Undertaking Company, occupying a place among the most progressive and suc- cessful of Kansas City's business men. Mr. Carroll also has a large livery establishment, at 1408-10 Walnut Street, which is known as the Carroll-Marshall Livery Company. He was appointed by Governor Stephens, in 1900, a member of the State Board of Em- balming. He has been an active Democrat ever since his first vote was cast, but has never been an aspirant for elective honors. For six years Mr. Carroll has been a promi- nent member of the Order of Elks. He is a member of the Order of Modern Woodmen of America, and has passed through all of the official chairs in that society. He also holds membership in the Order of Knights of Pythias and a number of insurance organ- izations. In social affairs Mr. Carroll is
active and maintains a popularity in keeping with his personality and happy traits of char- acter. As a business man he has a sub- stantial standing and is always ready to lend a hand to wholesome movements projected in the interest of the general good.
Carroll County .- A county in the northwest central part of the State, bounded on the north by Livingston County; east by Grand River, which separates it from Chari- ton County ; south by the Missouri River, which separates it from Saline and Lafayette Counties, and on the west by Ray and Cald- well Counties ; area, 443,000 acres. The sur- face of the county is generally undulating, nearly two-thirds of it prairie, and about one- fourth level bottom land, the remainder ranging from low hills to bluffs, with belts of timber following the courses of the streams. The soil of the bottom lands is an almost black alluvial loam of inexhaustible fertility. The soil of the uplands and prairies is also loam, containing considerable sand, and of great productiveness. Originally about one-fourth of the area of the county was in timber, some of which still remains, consisting of the different varieties of oak, hickory, hackberry, walnut, sycamore, maple, locust and lind, cottonwood, etc. The Grand River, which winds along the eastern border, with its numerous small tributaries, waters and drains the eastern part of the county. The Wakenda-"God's River"-flows from the western border eastwardly, and empties into the Missouri about fifteen miles above the mouth of Grand River. Turkey Creek flows from the northwestern part of the county southwardly into the Wakenda. Other streams are Big Creek, Hurricane, Shootman, Little Wakenda and Modd Creeks. Within an area of about fifty square miles north of the center of the county, are a number of mounds, some of them as much as a hundred feet in height. At De Witt, on the Missouri River, are evidences of earth- works erected by some prehistoric race. The mounds are laid out regularly, and one large mound on an elevation commands an extensive view of the surrounding country, four different counties coming into view. The chief mineral is coal, which crops out in different parts of the county. Some years ago small quantities of iron and lead ores were found, but never in any quantity to
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justify attempts to open mines. There is abundance of fire clay and building stone of excellent quality. Of the land go per cent is under cultivation. The yield to the acre, on an average, is: Corn, 40 bushels ; wheat. 18 bushels, and oats, 35 bushels. Potatoes average 150 to 200 bushels to the acre; tobacco, 1,000 pounds ; clover seed, 2 bushels ; timothy seed. 312 bushels ; timothy hay. 212 tons. The most profitable occupations of the residents of the county are agriculture, stock-raising and fruit-growing. According to the report of the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics, in 1898, there were shipped from the county: Cattle, 25.388 head; hogs. 81,322 head ; sheep, 2.210 head : horses and mules, 2,089 head; wheat, 160,155 bushels; oats, 11,256 bushels; corn, 58,168 bushels : flour, 1,422,975 pounds ; corn meal, 28,000 pounds ; shipstuff. 82,000 pounds ; clover seed. 41.815 pounds ; timothy seed, 27,000 pounds ; lum- ber. 144,100 feet ; logs, 12,000 feet : walnut logs, 12,000 feet ; cooperage, II cars; brick, 10.250; tile and sewer pipe, 14 cars ; stone, 223 cars; wood, 84,035 pounds; tobacco .. 65.000 pounds ; potatoes, 7,200 bushels ; poul- try, 1,139.234 pounds; eggs, 543.877 dozen ; butter, 106,339 pounds; dressed meats. 8,305 pounds; lard, 4,010 pounds; tallow, 14,485 pounds ; hides and pelts, 90,336 pounds; peaches, 373 baskets; strawberries, 172 crates ; fresh fruit, 315,110 pounds ; dried fruits, 1,575 pounds; vegetables. 13.873 pounds; onions, 1,639 bushels. Other arti- cles exported were cordwood, sand. cheese, honey, molasses, cider, canned goods, nursery stock, furs and feathers. The many mounds and earthworks in different parts of Carroll County bear evidence that in ages long past, the race known as the mound-builders occu- pied that section. When the French traders visited the country, and as late as 1820, tribes of Sae and Fox Indians occupied the terri- tory immediately west of the Grand River as their hunting ground. They had two or three villages. One, on the banks of the Missouri, was occupied for some years after the first permanent white settlers located in the country. Chief among the first to estab- lish trading camps were Jean Pierre Chou- teau and Joseph Robidoux, the founder of St. Joseph. As early as 1800 these venture- some men visited the country. Chouteau, with one Blandeau, had a trading post near the Indian village at the bend of the Missouri.
near the present site of Brunswick, and Robidons had established a post about six miles from the mouth of Grand River. When the Indians began to leave the country and move westward. Robidoux followed and established a post at Black Snake Hills, now the site of St. Joseph. The first cabin in the Carroll County territory was built in the fall of 1817 by a trapper. Martin Palmer, who ventured into the country about a dozen miles from the Grand River, where he re- mained during the winter. In the spring the Indians demonstrated their displeasure toward him and he returned to the settlement on the Chariton River. The first permanent settlement within the limits of Carroll County, according to the most trustworthy tradition, was made in 18ro by John Standley and William Turner, who came from North Carolina with their families, and settled on land near the present site of Carrollton. The territory then was a part of Howard County. Soon after the Standley and Turner families were settled in their new homes, the Hard- wick, Riffe, Wooley and Carey families and a few others settled in the neighborhood. Some few settlers located on land along the Wakenda, called so by the Indians and mean- ing "God's River," on account of the abund- ance of game along its banks and the fish it contained. Owing to the rank growths along its banks and the resultant decaying vegetation, the settlers became affeeted with malaria, and soon abandoned their location. and sought homes in more healthful localities. During the next few years there was a con- tinuous immigration into the country. Ray County was organized November 16, 1820, and prior to 1833 and subsequent to 1820 the territory now Carroll County was a part of Ray County. The county was divided into two townships called Missouritan and Grand River. Afterward Missouritan was called Wyaconda or Wakenda. The first represen- tative in the State Legislature from this county, when it was part of Ray, was Martin Palmer, a hunter and trapper, an odd char- acter, of the frontier genus and Davy Crockett species. He called himself the "Ring-tailed Panther." or, as he pronounced it, "Painter," and rejoiced in the cognomen. He was uneducated, unpolished, profane and pugilistic. At the first session of the Legis- lature he attended he raised a row, got into a rough and tumble fight, and when Governor
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