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Author: bchpink1
Surnames: Carr, Zeller, Fasold
Classification: biography
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Carr, Clement V. -b.1863 Ohio, son of Jacob G. & Katherine (Zeller) Carr; m. Lillie A.
Fasold
from a book on found on
HeritageQuestOnline.com -not in my line as far as I know
Title: Indiana and Indianans: a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the
century of statehood
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt
City of Publication: Chicago
Publisher: American Historical Society
Date: 1919
Page Count: 2610
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ill., facsims., maps, ports.
Reel/Fiche Number: Genealogy and local history; LH12054)
Subject Headings: Indiana -- History
Indiana -- Biography.
Indiana
Clement V. Carr
It is not merely his official position as sheriff of Wayne County which makes Mr. Carr one
of the most widely known and appreciated citizens of that section of Indiana. He had a
strong hold on the confidence and esteem of the community before he was chosen to the
office of sheriff, and has shown business judgment and integrity through all the varied
relationships of his life.
He was born in Butler County, Ohio, February 2, 1853, a son of Jacob G. and Katherine
(Zeller) Carr. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was born on a farm, lived in one of
the rural districts of Ohio until he was ten years old, when his parents moved to Wells
County, Indiana, and there as a boy he assisted his father in working the 160-acre farm.
At the age of eighteen, in 1882, he came to Richmond and learned the trade of molder in
the plant of the Hoosier Drill Company. He remained with that one firm as one of its most
reliable workers for thirteen years.
He then took employment with the Jones Hardware Company. He gave up this business
connection to go to Solomon, Kansas and take charge of a large ranch of 4,220 acres owned
by J.M. Westcott. This was one of the famous ranches of the Solomon Valley in Dickinson
County, Kansas, near Abilene. Mr. Carr remained as its manager for five years, and for
the next two years was engaged in cattle raising at Boulder, Wyoming. Returning to
Richmond in 1911, he began farming for himself on a place of 172.5 acres near Richmond.
He left the active management after five years to enter politics as primary candidate of
the office of sheriff in 1916. Ten people sought the republican nomination, and he won
out over them all and the succeeding election he defeated his democratic opponent, Ben
Drischel, by 1,700 votes. In 1918 he was again successful at the primaries and defeated
Isaac Burns for a second term by a similar plurality. The sheriff's office on
accounts has never been in better !
hands than since Mr. Carr took its management.
He is a man of vigor, courageous and prompt in decisions, and thoroughly well qualified
for his duties. On May 20, 1917, he was appointed chairman of the Wayne County
Conscription Board No. 1, and had those duties throughout the war period. Mr. Carr is a
popular member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, and the
Wayne Lodge of Moose No. 167. He is a member of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church at
Richmond.
He married Lillie A. Fasold, dau. of John Fasold of Richmond, Indiana on February 27,
1883. They had four children:
1. Herbert A., born Jan. 24, 1884; died at the age of twenty-one
2. Clifford H., born Sept. 21, 1888; accounts for the star in the service flag in the
family home. He graduated with the degree electrical engineer from the Kansas State
agricultural College at Manhattan, Kansas in 1907, and for several years was engineer of
the sales department of the Allis-Chalmers Company at Kansas City. Early in the war he
enlisted and is a present in the warrant office of the United States Navy. He married at
Manhattan Kansas.
3. Katherine Zeller, now a junior in the Richmond High School
4. Earle W., also a high school student, born in 1906, on the Westcott Ranch, Solomoan,
Kansas.
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