Orange County Biographies

LEWIS J. CARSON

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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the worthy assistant in the postoffice of San Diego, and the superintendent of 
carriers, was born at Merrimac Iron Works, Phelps County, Missouri, June 10, 
1864, being the youngest in a family of five children. His father was in the 
iron business, formerly at Pilot Knob, Missouri. In 1877 they moved to 
Phillipsburg, Montana, and in 1879 returned to Missouri. Lewis received his 
preliminary education in common schools, and in 1883 entered the School of 
Mines, at Raleigh, Missouri, a branch of Columbia University. After sixteen 
months of study he went to Butte, Montana, as assistant assayer of the Lexington 
Mining Company. In 1887 he went to his home in Missouri, and on March 15, of the 
same year, started for San Diego, and on the 27th of March entered the employ of 
the Government as letter carrier at San Diego, and October 1, 1888, for 
efficient service was promoted to superintendent of carriers, which position he 
now (December, 1889) holds. He is unmarried and lives with his mother and two 
brothers.
        He is a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge No. 216, at Salem, Missouri.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  895