BIO: W. S. CARR, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 897 & 898.
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  W. S. CARR, president of the Curwensville Rural Telephone Company, is one of 
Pike Township's substantial citizens and lives on his farm of sixty-five acres, 
which lies three miles northeast of Curwensville, Pa.  He was born on this farm, 
September 17, 1857, and is a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Williams) Carr, and 
a grandson of Asil and Katherine Carr.
  W. S. Carr attended the Pleasant Grove school during the winter sessions until 
he was about eighteen years of age, after which his winters were mainly spent in 
the lumber regions, while he devoted his summers to farm work.  As there was no 
necessity for him to leave the homestead he remained on it and since coming into 
possession, at the death of his parents, has done a large amount of improving.  
He has cleared about one-third of the farm by himself and now has it all under 
cultivation with the exception of ten acres in standing timber.  The buildings 
erected by his father had became a little dilapidated but he repaired, rebuilt 
and otherwise improved them.  Perhaps his farm is underlaid with a vein of coal 
but he has no open bank nor has he ever leased any land.
  Mr. Carr was married first in December, 1882, to Miss Mary Thompson, who died 
in 1893.  Her burial was in the cemetery attached to the Center Methodist 
Episcopal Church, of which she was a member.  She was survived by a son, 
Benjamin Frank, who resides at Karthaus, Clearfield County, Pa.  He married 
Fannie Shearer and they have one daughter, Florence.  Mr. Carr was married 
secondly in September, 1896, to Miss Orie Bloom, a daughter of Z. M. and 
Charlotte Bloom, and they have eight children, namely:  William, Blair, Melvin, 
Phillip, Elizabeth, Edith, John and Edna.  Mr. Carr and family are members of 
the Methodist Episcopal church.  He is identified with the Republican party and 
has frequently served in political positions, having been judge and inspector of 
elections and several times a delegate to the county conventions of his party.  
He is a member of the local Grange, of which he has been overseer, and he 
belongs to the Order of the Moose, at Curwensville.