GEORGE THOMAS CARR

Sacramento County

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GEORGE THOMAS CARR

George Thomas Carr was born in Merrimac County, New Hampshire, June 18, 1837, his parents being Thomas Tyler and Caroline (Connor) Carr, Both of the same county and State. Thomas Tyler Carr was the son of John Carr, and was the youngest of his family of five children, viz.: Samuel, Abigail, Almira, Emma and Thomas Tyler. He grew up on the old homestead and made his home there before and after his father died, living to see his children grow up to manhood and womanhood. He died at the home of his son Frank, February, 1889, and his wife died there in the fall of 1876. They had six sons and two daughters, viz.: Philip A., born August 15, 1833, died March 22, 1844; John A., born May 30, 1835, resident in Boston, Massachusetts; George, born June 18, 1837; Thomas T., born April 2, 1839, resident in Texas; Frank H., born February 4, 1841, resident in New Hampshire, near the old homestead; Charles, born July 10, 1845, who was wounded in the Shenandoah Valley, and died from the effects of it November 24, 1864; Caroline E., born January 27, 1849, resident in Concord, New Hampshire; and Helen B., born June 27, 1851, died about 1878. George T. Carr, subject of this sketch, was raised on a farm. He lived with his parents until he was twenty-one years of age, then went to work on a neighboring farm; he was afterward engaged at a sash, door and blind factory, at North Ware, till the war broke out in 1861. In April of that year, he enlisted in the United States Navy as a landsman on the receiving vessel Vermont, subject to a draft to supply crew for different vessels in the service. He remained there but a short time and was then drafted and placed on the United States sailing vessel Supply, which was fitted out with an armanent similar to that of any other man-of–war. Their business duty was to carry provisions and necessaries to other vessels stationed on blockade. He served one year when was discharged, his time being up. He returned home, where he stayed until the next April, when he started for California. He left New York on the 1^st, came via Panama and arrived in San Francisco after a voyage of twenty-eight days. He went to work on a farm in Marin County, remaining there until June; thence to Austin, Nevada, and worked at farming there about two years. He then went to work in the mines, still working for wages, and followed that pursuit for nearly a year. He next came to Sacramento County and bought 680 acres on the Lagoon, just below Buckeye Valley. In 1875 he sold that place and purchased a ranch of 700 acres on the Cosumnes River, three miles south of Elk Grove; he afterward sold 500 acres, and the remaining 200 form the ranch on which he makes his home. He has improved it greatly, and the fine appearance which it offers to all passers by is entirely due to his skill and industry. His fine new residence was erected at a cost of $3,000. Mr. Carr cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, in the fall of 1860, and since that time has always acted with the Republican party. He was united in marriage on the 14^th day of February, 1872, to Eliza Coppin, a native of Canada; they have six children viz.: Charles C., Caroline E., George, Eliza, John and Gracie.

Transcribed by Karen Pratt.

Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 529-530. Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.

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