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Author: bchpink1
Surnames: Carr
Classification: biography
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Carr, Thomas -b. 1777 PA -father of George Whitfield (b. Indiana) & John F.
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
Thomas Carr, born in Chester County, Pa, December 12, 1777, was a member of the Democratic
State Convention of 1816, and served in the legislature afterwards. His father died in
1784, and he went to live with an uncle at Perrysville, Kentucky, where he grew up,
married and in 1804 removed to Indiana, locating near Charlestown. In 1813 he moved to
Valonia, where he had command of the blockhouse.
Thomas Carr had two bachelor brothers, John and Samuel, who were in the mounted Rangers,
and were with Harrison at Tippecanoe. In 1816, after the war, he located on a farm on
"Pea Ridge," where he lived until his death, March 10, 1847.
He was the father of George Whitfield Carr, a delegate from Lawrence County and President
of the Constitutional Convention of 1851, and John F. Carr, was in the House or the Senate
continuously from 1835 to 1845 and was also a delegate of the Convention of 1851.
George W. was born on his father's farm, on "Pea Ridge" near Charlestown,
Indiana, October 7, 1807. He lived on the farm until he was 17, when he was apprenticed
to Marmaduke Coffin, a tanner, at Salem, and worked for him for four years. In 1829, he
and his brother opened a tannery on their father's farm, which was continued until
1831, when George removed to Leesville, in Lawrence County, and conducted a tannery there
for ten years. Between 1839 and 1850, he was five times elected representative, and three
times senator. After the Convention, Gov. Wright appointed him, with Lucian Barbour and
Walter March, commissioners to revise and simplify the Code. George W. was Receiver of
the Land Office at Jeffersonville from 1852 to 1854, when the office there was abolished,
after which he farmed the old Carr homestead, near Charlestown, until 1886, and then
removed to Crawfordsville, where he died on May 27, 1892. He was a Jackson Democrat,
later an adherent of Douglas, and a!
fter 1860 became a Republican.
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