In the book's own words, not ours, with obvious scanning errors fixed. Families often supplied these stories to the publisher, so check key dates.
From A Biographical record of Boone County, Iowa (1902)
CHARLES R. CARLSON.
[This passage is too damaged in the scanned book to reproduce. See the original book.]
As printed in A Biographical record of Boone County, Iowa (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
The printed record stops around 1902. We trace your line from there down to you, with every source cited.