Campbell Carr

CAMPBELL CARR, who for over twenty years has been a citizen of Tyrone township, is a native of the Buckeye state, and was born in Gallia county on the 11th of April, I854. He is the third in the family of three sons and two daughters, born to Hiram and Catherine (Charberlin) Carr, of whom four are yet living, viz: Frank R., married and an agriculturist of Tyrone township; Campbell; Alice, wife of Harmon Cobeern, who is a resident of Tyrone township, is an agriculturist and ex-supervisor of his township, and Ellen, the youngest living, and wife of Asher Post, a lumberman and miller residing in Tyrone. Hiram Carr is a native of Columbiana, Ohio, and was born in 182. He was reared in his native state, where he learned and practiced the trade of a carpenter along with agriculture. He now resides in Tyrone township, having emigrated to Michigan in the year I877. Politically he is a republican and officially was supervisor of his township in Gallia county, Ohio. When the Civil war broke out he enlisted in company K, of the Seventh Ohio cavalry, and was assigned to the army of the Tennessee. He was in service during a number of the prominent engagements and received an honorable discharge. His wife was a native of Maysville, Ky., where she received her education in the public schools and later became a resident of Ohio. Mr. Carr of this biography received a common-school education and spent his minor days with his parents, to whom he gave his entire service. When of age, he came direct to Tyrone, Kent county, Mich. At that time the north part of the township was covered with forests and there were very few inhabitants. Mr. Carr is among the enterprising farmers who have changed the forests of the township into the beautiful, rich farming lands that it now contains. On September 15, 1878, he wedded Miss Caroline M. Hampton, a native of Ohio, and two children have been born to this union, namely: Myrtie A., and Guy H. The former died at the age of six months and the latter is at present attending school in the sixth grade. He exhibits some talent in drawing and takes a great interest in literary, work. The parents take an exceptionally great interest in the boy, and will do all in their power to further his education and make him a refined and cultured gentleman. Mrs. Carr was born on the 1st of February, 1857, and is the sixth in a family of six sons and two daughters, born to Bradford and Harriet (Roup) Hampton. There are three sons and two daughters now living, all residents of Meigs county, Ohio, where the sons are engaged as agriculturists. Edward, the brother of Mrs. Carr, was educated in the common and high schools, and was a teacher. The father of Mrs. Carr was born in Pennsylvania April I0, 1827, and died in October, I889. He was a gentleman of liberal education and a very successful teacher, having taught for many years. When a youth of twelve years he removed to& Ohio, there to reside until he departed this life. In his politics he was a republican, and both he and his wife were consistent members of the Protestant Methodist church. The mother of Mrs. Carr is a native of Meigs county, Ohio, and was born December 15, I831. She is still living at an old age, but her intellectual faculties and mental powers are in a good state of preservation. Mrs. Carr was educated in the common schools and is quick and active in mind or intellect. It was in the fall of 1878 when Mr. Carr, accompanied by his bride, drove to their little farm of thirty-five acres in Tyrone township. Their habitation at that time was a log cabin. They began life with scanty means, and were in debt for-their little hore, only ten acres of which were then cleared. They have done well and have themselves improved the place. In I894 they erected their neat frame residence of a modern style of architecture. Now, in I900, he has fifty-eight acres and a beautiful home and improvements, with no indebtedness, all the result of their economy and industry. Mr. Carr is a stanch republican, having cast his first presidential vote for Rutherford B. Hayes. He is a supporter of that bulwark of the state and nation, the public schools, and even canvassed his township for funds in order to keep an excellent teacher, whom he knew to be first class. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F., lodge No. 380, at Kent City, and is the representative of a family of industrious Christian people.