Portrait and biographical album of Ingham and Livingston counties, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties ... the governors of the state and of all the presidents of the United States.

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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM.

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Female Seminary at Lansing. She taught in the
college at Lansing and also at Lebanon, Ind., being Preceptress of the seminary and also Principal
of various private schools.
The original of this sketch has a family of two
children-Melvin H. is a graduate of the Howell
School and at present Division Engineer and Chief
of Construction in Mexico, of the Mexican Southern Railroad; Welton M. is a Professor of Hort I
culture in the Maine State College. He graduated
at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1888, at
twenty-five years of age. One son, Rial Lake, died
in early manhood, when about twenty two-years
of age, in Topeka, Kan. He was then acting as
Division Engineer on the Santa Fe Railroad. We
quote from an article written by his chief, the
resident engineer of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad, and published in the Topeka Commonwealth at the time of his death. "He rose rapidly and
shone brighter than those of twice his age and ex)erience, and at the early age of twenty years he
was made Division Engineer on one of the most
important and difficult divisions of the road." Mr.
Munson is in his political liking a Republican. He
has filled several municipal offices, having been
School Director for a number of years. He is regarded as one of the prominent and substantial
men of the county and one upon whose word one
may thoroughly rely. Mr. Munson has filled the
offices of President and Secretary of the Livingston
County Agricultural Society and through his influence and laborwith others greatly promoted the
interests of the same.
ILLIAM M. CARR, who is one of the
early settlers of Williamstown Township,
Ingham County, is a son of Caleb Carr who
was born in New York, October 26, 1795, but who
lived in Canada from his fifth to his thirty-fifth
year. He was there married, September 12, 1820,
to Catherine Wholsapple, who was born in New
York, October 14, 1796. Their children were
Harriet, Julius A.. William M., Julia M. alld
Charles W., all of whom were born in Canada.

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In 1834 the father of this household came to
Michigan and for a year and a half lived in Farmington Township, Oakland County. He then resides for three years in the village of Kensington
after which he removed to Locke Township and
three years later in 1842 came to Williamstown
where he remained for the remainder of his days.
He was the first blacksmith in the township and
built the first frame house therein and had the first
grist ground. His father also bore the name of
Caleb Carr and was a Methodist minister who came
to Michigan in 1836.
Caleb Carr, Jr. was a pioneer of Ingham County,
and made his home on forty acres whicli he owned
till death, although he lived for several years in
the village of Williamston. lie had been a soldier
and a prisoner in the War of 1812, and was ever a
hard working man. lIe died in 1868 and had
mourned his wife for eight years. His son, William, was born March 3, 1826, and was therefore
eight years old when the parents came to Oakland
County, Mich.
At the age of twenty-three this young man was
married, April 8, 1849, to Matilda M. Moore who
died July 26, 1850, leaving a son, George M. Carr.
Our subject was again married to Sarah B. Simons,
August 17, 1851, and she had one child who died
in infancy. Mrs. Sarah Carr was born, March 25,
1833, in Royal Oak Township, Oakland County,
Mich., where her parents, John and Martha Simons,
were pioneers. lie afterward removed to Howell,
Livingston County, where the mother died in 1845
and somewhat later the father made his home in
Williamstown, and there died, May 22, 1854.
They had four sons and three daughters. William,
Cynthia, Sarah, Henry, Joel and Martha.
Since the age of thirteen our subject has resided
in Ingham County and since 1839 when he attended the first township meeting, he has not
missed one of these meetings. His first purchase
comprised forty acres, to which he somewhat later
added eighty acres and afterward gave forty to his
son. Ile has been a hard worker and has cleared
and broken all his land and made all the improvements. Ie helped to build the first house in the
township, the first mill and the first barn.
During the war Mr. Carr was strenuous in his