Carson, R. W.

CARSON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/25/2008 at 16:10:08

R. W. Carson

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.175, Minden Twp.)
R. W. Carson, farmer, P. O. Minden, was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1827. He is the son of James and Martha (Williamson) Carson, both natives of Ireland. His father died in Canada in 1864, and his mother in the same country in 1836. They had eight children - three sons and five daughters. Our subject began life as a farmer. He came to Canada in 1841, and clerked in Kingston, Canada, for six years. In January, 1877, he wen5t to city of Paris, Lamar Co., Texas, where he lived until January, 1879, when he came to this county and bought 120 acres of improved land. He was married, in Canada, April 2, 1852, to Harrett Russell, born in Canada August 23, 1832. She is the daughter of Timothy and Eliza (Tate) Russell. Her father was born in Utica, N. Y., in 1805. He is a farmer, and is still living, in De Kalb County, Ill. Her mother was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1803, and lives in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Carson have had eight children - Sarah Louisa, Ann Eliza, Robert Williamson, George Russell, James David, Mary Harriett, Ernest Edwin and Charles Russell. Ann Eliza, their second child, died in Texas in September, 1877. Our subject was a magistrate in Canada, and is a member of the Royal Orange Institution of British North America. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church, and in politics is an Independent. He is engaged in general farming.