CARR, WILLIAM HENRY, son of John P. and Fanny A. (WOODS) CARR, was
born in Waterford, Vermont, in 1848. John CARR came from southern New Hampshire
to Waterford early in the last century and settled on the farm now owned
by A. DANIELS, which he cleared and there reared a large family, of whom
John P. was the eldest son, and remained on the farm. John P. CARR was
an industrious and enterprising farmer and cattle dealer, an esteemed and
prominent citizen of Waterford. He purchased and united his father's farm
and that of his father-in-law, Captain Ebenezer WOODS, and built the present
excellent farm buildings. He reared a family of eight children, four of
whom are now living. William H. CARR graduated from St. Johnsbury academy
in 1869, and entered Dartmouth college in the class of 1873. After attending
one year he was called home by the premature death of his father, and during
the decade ensuing the care of the farm and of the family largely devolved
upon him. Meanwhile for several years he taught in high schools and academies.
He was an early and prominent member of Green Mountain grange, No. 1, and
an organizing deputy of the National Grange, P. of H.
Mr. CARR came to St. Johnsbury in 1880, and entered the Fairbanks
Scale Works, where he remained twenty years, and was working in the sealing
department on contract when ill health in 1900 compelled him to change
his occupation. He soon after bought the stock of goods at the Hovey store,
corner of Portland street and Concord avenue, where he is doing a thriving
business in the line of choice family groceries and provisions. Mr. CARR
enjoys a wide and intimate acquaintance, both among the townspeople and
the farmers of this vicinity, with whom he is doing a very considerable
barter trade on favorable terms. Although a man of affairs, he has always
been a student, has collected an excellent and standard private library,
and is unusually well informed in literature, science, and current affairs.
Naturally retiring in his habits, he has avoided rather than sought public
office. In 1878 he married Natio BISHOP, a scion of a prominent family,
whose ancestor fought with Ethan ALLEN in the Montreal campaign. They have
three children: Nellie J., a graduate of St. Johnsbury academy and a student
of Boston Conservatory of Music, Arthur B., and Walter P. CARR. For a third
of a century Mr. CARR has been a member of Passumpsic lodge, F. & A.
M., and is also a member of Haswell chapter.
Source: Successful Vermonters,
William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical Publishing Company,
1904, page 56-57.
Prepared
by Tom Dunn January 2003
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