Carr, Capt. J. W.

CARR, FRICK

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 12/5/2012 at 14:58:58

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

CARR, Capt. J.W. - Jackson Twp - pg 644-5. Attorney at law. This gentleman is a native of Logan county, Illinois. Was born April 26, 1839. At the age of four years his mother died, and three years later, his father, when he was taken by his grandmother to raise. When about eight years of age, young Carr was brought by his uncle, Stephen R. Moore, and his grandmother, to the county (December, 1847). He was raised on a farm and received all the advantages of the common schools supplemented with two years of college study at the Iowa College of Grinnell. On the breaking out of the Rebellion, while in college, he was roused from his student dreams. The call of April, 1861, for troops saw young Carr in the very front of those who sprang to answer the treasonable roar of the guns upon Fort Sumter. J.W. Carr enlisted in company F., Tenth Iowa infantry as second lieutenant, and in February, 1862, he resigned on account of sickness and returned home. Soon after regaining his health he organized company C of the Twenty-eighth, in September, 1862, and was elected captain and served with distinction until the close of the Rebellion, and just before his muster out he was brevetted major. On his return home, he engaged in the mercantile business for three years, when he was urged by his friends to accept the nomination of clerk of the courts, and was elected and re-elected three consecutive terms, and served to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. During this time he studied law with Judge L.C. Blanchard, and was admitted to practice in February, 1877, and is now a member of the firm of Redman, Carr & Fariner. These gentlemen enjoy a large and lucrative practice. In his own home Captain Carr has been well blessed; the partner of his joys and sharer of his life - s ills he found in the person of Miss Lottie Frick, a native of New York, whom he married January 10, 1866. Two children, Fred and Tad, are the complement of their family circle.