THOMAS HENRY CARSON, M. D. Washington Carson was born in 1815, on the home farm in Fallowfield township, this county. In March, 1843, he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Allman, a prosperous farmer of Washington county. The first of the Allman family to arrive in this county was William, who was married in Maryland to Hannah Thomas, a native of that State, and after their marriage they came hither, making a settlement in West Pike Run township, where they passed the remainder of their pioneer lives, the husband dying first. They were the parents of eight children: Sarah, Elizabeth, Hannah, James, John, William, Henry and Heyman, of whom Henry became the father of Mrs. Washington Carson. He was married to Nancy, daughter of Alexander Hopkins, of West Pike Run township, and the young couple then made their home in that township, passing away in after years within three months of each other. The following children were born to them: Haman (in West Pike Run township), Elizabeth (Mrs. Carson), William (in Indiana county, Penn.), Alexander (in Youngstown, Ohio), Henry (deceased), Sarah Ann (deceased wife of John Johnson), Nancy (wife of T. C. Hopkins, in Washington county). To the union of Washington and Elizabeth (Allman) Carson were born children as follows; Nancy (wife of Peter Miller, of Hillsborougb), T. H. (subject), Margery (deceased wife of Levi Winnett), Johanna (deceased wife of William Blythe), Frances and Elizabeth (both at home), and Hopkins (deceased at the age of fourteen years). Mr. and Mrs. Carson always resided on the home place, which contains 220 acres of land, and he also owned 168 acres in West Pike Run township. He died May 27, 1889; his widow is yet living on the farm.
T. H. Carson, whose name introduces this biography, was born October 26, 1853, on the home place in Fallowfield township, already referred to. He attended the Southwestern State Normal School at California, Penn., and afterward took a medical course at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1884. He then began the practice of his profession with Dr. J. Y. Scott, of Washington (at that time in Bentleyville, this county), remaining one year, at the end of which time, his father being an invalid, and his brother Hopkins having been killed by an accident, our subject abandoned for a time his professional career, and returned to the farm. He now has charge of the old home place, which is situated eight miles south of Monongahela, and four and one-half wiles west of Charleroi, and in connection with farming and stock raising he has been in the real-estate business in Charleroi, where he still has interests.
On September 14, 1892, Dr. Carson was united in marriage with Ada, daughter of John H. and Virtue Jenkins, of West Pike Run township, and of an old family in the county. Her father died in 1876; her mother is yet living in West Pike Run township. Their children are Anna (wife of Prof. Hall, of the Southwestern State Normal School), Ada (Mrs. Dr. Carson), Walter (a farmer in West Pike Run township), and Louise, Margaret and Roy (living with their mother). Dr. Carson and his mother are members of the Methodist Church, and in his political preferences he votes the Democratic ticket. Squire Henry Carson, the paternal great-grandfather of Dr. Carson, lived for years at the homestead where the latter now resides, the farm having been in the family possession ever since It was patented from the Government by John Hull, from whom Henry Carson purchased it.
[Further record of this family will be found in the sketch of Jackson and Alexander S. Carson, elsewhere in the volume.]
Text taken from page 1434 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).Transcribed January 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project.
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