Samuel H. Carr

As printed in 1902

SAMUEL H. CARR.

Samuel H. Carr, who is proprietor of a livery stable in South Charleston, was born near Jeffersonville, in Fayette county, Ohio, December 23, 1842, and is a son of Michael and Mary (Lohr) Carr. The father was also a native of Fayette county and there spent his entire life, passing away in 1870, when fifty-eight years of age. Samuel H. Carr spent his boyhood days on the home farm and acquired a fair common school education, working through the summer months in the fields and meadows and thus obtaining a practical knowledge of agricultural pursuits. He was a young man of eighteen years when his patriotic spirit was aroused by the attempt of the south to overthrow the Union and he enlisted in Company C, of the Nintieth Ohio Infantry, as a private. He participated in several battles, including the engagements at Perryville, Kentucky, Wild Cat Mountain, Nashville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Kenesaw Mountain. At the last named he was wounded in the left arm by ` a mine-ball and was then sent to the field hospital. Later he was in the hospital at Big Shanty, at Chattanooga, at Nashville and at Louisville, and at the last named: place the arm was amputated because gangrene had set in. The injury had been received on the 20th of June and it was on the 13th of July that the member was amputated. Mr. Carr then returned home on a furlough and again reported for duty at Columbus where he was honorably discharged in December, 1864, after two years of service, having enlisted in 1862.

In 1868 Mr. Carr entered the livery business in Jeffersonville, Fayette county. Although his beginning was a small one, for he had but one horse and buggy, he soon enlarged his stock, however, carrying on a business there until 1872, at which he was the owner of five horses and buggies. Removing to South Charleston he here established a livery stable and after three years removed to his present location. At that time he also purchased a third interest in the Miami House and has since become sole owner. He had formerly been proprietor of the Ackly House and livery stable for three years. He conducted the hotel business in the Miami House for twelve years, but has since given his whole time to the livery business, but still retains the ownership of both properties. Mr. Carr has been continuously in the livery business since 1868 and so far as is known the longest in that business of any man in Ohio.

Mr. Carr was married in Jeffersonville, Ohio, in-1868, to Miss Ardiila A. Mclntyre and unto them were born three children: Charles Lester, who died in Dayton, Ohio, at the age of twenty-four years; Mary M., who is the wife of John Brown and has two children; and Addie B., at home. The wife and mother died in April, 1886, and Mr. Carr has since been again married, his second union being with Miss Grace Mahoy, of Fayette county, by whom he has one son, Leon Harold.

Mr. Carr votes with the Republican party but is not an active, politician, though he has served as a member of the school board and township trustee. He has never missed a vote since his return from the war. At the age of fifteen years he became a member of the Christian church and, upon his removal to South Charleston, as there was no church of that denomination here, he joined the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is a class leader, trustee and steward. He belongs to McMillan Post, G. A. R. Mr. Carr is well known among his fellow townsmen through the possession of many qualities of genuine worth.: He is energetic and reliable in business and his influence is ever on the side of measures and movements for the public good.

As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.