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- Death claimed one of the foremost citizens of the town of
Milton and Rock county
- Sunday afternoon about five o'clock when Hon. Solomon Carpenter
CARR answered the summons of grim reaper.
- It was but a short time ago that he was able to be out, but
an attack of pneumonia
- weakened his heart to such an extent that he could not rally.
- The funeral services were held from the Milton Junction M.
E. church Wednesday
- afternoon when a large concourse of friends and townsmen
gathered to pay their last respects. Rev. Webster MILLER
spoke words of comfort to the sorrowing friends and Rev. H. N.
JORDAN offered prayer. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd JONES
of Chicago, an old friend of Mr. CARR, was present and
gave a short personal tribute to the estimable character and
life of the deceased.
- A quartet composed of Mesdames C. S. BUTTON and J.
A. BAKER and Messrs.
- C. H. OSBORN and R. W. KELLY furnished music
for the service and the bearers were Messrs. C. S. BUTTON,
D. E. THORPE, I. B. CLARKE, G. K. BUTTS,
S. C. CHAMBERS and P. M. GREEN. The remains were
laid at rest in the Milton Junction cemetery.
- Among some of the old friends present at the funeral were
Hon. L. B. CASWELL
- of Ft. Atkinson and Judge FIFIELD, Senator WHITEHEAD
and Geo. R. BAKER of Janesville.
- Solomon C. CARR, a son of Peleg S. and Deborah CARR,
was born in Rensselaer
- county, N.Y., December 18, 1830 and came to Milton, Wis.,
in the spring of 1839, when he was nine years old.
- His mother was a sister of Joseph GOODRICH, the founder
of the village of Milton.
- His father bought a claim of Mr. GOODRICH on Sections
19 and 20, bordering on the banks of a beautiful lake; subsequently
called Clear Lake. On it he built a small log cabin and began
to cultivate the rich productive land. He had ten children
of which S. C. was the sixth.
- In 1851, Solomon C. CARR was married to Isabelle MACKEY,
an early pioneer of
- Milton, Wis. And after the death of his father in 1846,
he bought the home farm on his father's estate. On this he
and his wife worked with never ceasing industry, and the most
rigid economy for many years, and until they finally succeeded
in paying for it; and they made it one of the model farms in
Milton. Here they lived for sixty-seven years and there they
raised four children, William S. who is a conductor on the railroad
from Marshfield, Wis., north; Mnemosyne, the wife of William
C. KING of Springfield, Mass; Florence, also of Springfield;
and Kitty E., the wife of Clinton E. MARQUART, of Milton
Junction. In 1900 A.D., his most worthy wife died; who was
more than a helpmate to him.
- In 1902, Mr. CARR married Miss Alice BUTLER
of Springfield, N.J., who was a
- cousin to his former wife, with whom he lived until his death,
February 15, 1914. In 1904, he sold his farm, which he was
reluctant to leave, and moved to Milton Junction.
- Mr. CARR was a man of spotless integrity; and he always
insisted in paying in full for
- all that he got and his word was as good as the gold. He
was a devoted member of the Grange, and for many years he was
a Master of the State Grange. In politics Mr. CARR was
a staunch Republican, and in their councils he was generally
consulted. He was elected a member of the Assembly in 1865
and 1874. He also took an active interest in all local public
affairs; and he always advocated the side that was just and right.
He was a leader, rather than a follower, wherever he lived;
and in all public gatherings in which he was present, he was
generally chosen as the presiding officer. He was a man who
will be greatly missed. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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