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Date sent: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:32:49 -0600
From: "Wilda Marshall Brown" <wbrown(a)ny.tds.net>
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Subject: [NYCAYUGA] CARRIER, MCCOLLAM
Here's another one from Michigan
EDWIN B. CARRIER. Among the prominent and most influential members of
business and social circles in Lansing, Ingham County, is our subject whose
business as stock-dealer and also as proprietor of the egg preserving
establishment are among the active enterprises of this city. He is not, one
of the pioneers of the town as he came here in 1880, but he has shown
himself deeply interested in developing the natural resources and
stimulating the enterprises of this city, and has made himself a leader in
various movements of importance.
This gentleman was born in Cayuga County, N.Y., May 13, 1832, his
parents being Bert H. and Emeline (Hanchett) Carrier. The father was a
native of New York who removed to Rice Creek, Calhoun County, Mich., in 1837
and there engaged in farming. He bought new land from the Government and
settled where there were but two families within a radius of many miles. He
cleared up a farm and made a prosperous home out of this land which he found
in the wilderness. Under his roof the earliest religious meetings were held,
and he became one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church. When a
house of worship was to be erected, he with David H. Miller, Amos Hadden,
Caleb Hanchett and David Hanchett, were the heaviest contributors toward
building the first frame church at Rice's Creek. Previous to this they had
been privileged to hold meetings in the schoolhouse, as Mr. Carrier was most
of the time an officer of the school district and also of the township. He
lived on the old farm until the time of his death, February 11, 1884, and
was then nearly four-score years of age, having been born May 4, 1807. His
amiable and excellent wife, who was so true and helpful a companion to him
in their pioneer experiences, was born September 12,1812 and died May 26,
1877.
Besides our subject his parents had three children born to them, Oscar
M., who is now deceased; Alice the wife of Sidney Thomas; and Orange A.,
Edwin Carrier received most of his education in Calhoun County, finishing
his schooling at Olivet College, after which he taught for several terms and
then engaged in farming. He bought it farm in Calhoun County and took as his
wife Miss Cornelia Root, a native of Cayuga County, N.Y., who was born there
November 26, 1831. Their marriage took place September 27, 1853. She is a
daughter of Ralph and Phoebe Ann Root.
Mr. Carrier continued farming in Marengo Township, Calhoun County,
where he owned one hundred and eighty acres of fine land, eighty of which he
still keeps in his possession. in that township he has held many of the
offices and has served with especial efficiency as Road Commissioner and
School Inspector. He served also most cheerfully and satisfactorily its
chorister of the Methodist Protestant Church at Rice's Creek for twenty-five
years and has been a member of that religious body since he was ten years
old. The work of a Sunday-school Superintendent has also been his for more
than a quarter of a century. He is deeply interested in matters of public
importance and had a strong faith in the vitality and soundness of the
Republican party to which he had been long attached. Until six years ago he
became member of the Prohibition party which he now enthusiastically
supports.
Our subject has sold a part of his farm to his daughter and her
husband, Myron Bolles who live in a handsome house on the old homestead. Mr.
Carrier has built for himself a fine brick residence at the corner of
Seymour and Willow Streets and his brother-in-law, William E. Robinson, who
bought quite a tract of land at the north end of town has built for himself
a beautiful home. Near the home of Mr. Carrier they have their egg
establishment which has a capacity of seventy-five thousand dozen eggs,
which they hold in vats in the perserving liquor until they desire to sell
them. They are building up a fine trade in this necessary article of
commerce.
Mr. Carrier has also made a specialty of buying and selling stock and
has engaged particularly in letting sheep, having had as many as twenty-five
hundred sheep let out on time. The first wife of Mr. Carrier died January
31, 1888 leaving a family of five children, namely: Ella May, who was born
July 3, 1858 and is now Mrs. Bolles; Wilbur
O., born February 28, 1860, and is now a Presbyterian minister at Wausau,
Wis.; Sarah A., born September 12, 1861, now Mrs. William J. McRoberts, of
Ironwood, Merton R., born February 20,1866, who is engaged in the wholesale
business of the Lansing Spice and Extract Company; find Esther M., was born
May 13, 1868 and is still at home. Mr. Carrier and the members of his family
are identified with the members of the Presbyterian Church of this city.
The present Mrs. Carrier bore the maiden name of Sarah McCollam, and
was born September 12, 1843, in Cayuga County, N.Y., being a daughter of
John McCollam. She there grew to maturity and taught school for several
years after which she married Mr. Elmer Slayton of that place in 1865 and
came to Michigan two years later. Mr. and Mrs. Slayton resided at Rice's
Creek, where he carried on a farm and he died there in 1885. Her oldest
daughter Arlone, is now the wife of William Williams, and the younger
daughter Emma, is at home with her mother.
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Neal F. Carrier
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