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Note: MR. AND MRS. JOHN W. CARSON John W. Carson, a farmer and stock raiser of Adams county, was born at Beaver Creek, Maryland on the 19th of May, 1862, a son of George T. and Lena (Bishop) Carson. The father was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and the mother was also a native of the Keystone state. They afterward removed to Maryland and both have now passed away. They had a family of six children, four of whom are living.
John W. Carson, spending his boyhood and youth in his native state, pursued his education in its public schools and on his removal westward established his home in Benton county, Iowa, where he lived for seven years. In 1883 he came to Colorado where he took up mining, and followed that pursuit for a number of years, after which he turned his attention to farming in Adams county. He now operates one hundred and forty-five acres of excellent land, which is a part of the home ranch. He makes a specialty of farming and stock raising and both branches of his business are proving profitable. He works persistently and Indefatigably and his fields produce large and abundant crops. He also exercises great care in his stock raising interests and has upon his place a high grade of cattle and hogs. In 1896 Mr. Carson was united In marriage to Miss Edith Mitchell, a native of Colorado and a daughter of William and Fannie (Rosencrans [sic.]) Mitchell, who were natives of the Empire state and came to Colorado at an early period in Its development. The father passed away here but the mother is living at the age of seventy-three years. William Mitchell was a native of St. Johns Parish, Cornwall, England, and came to America when a youth of twenty-one years. Shortly afterwards he became a student in Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, and there he first met Fannie Rosencrans, whom he later married, and who also was a student there. She is directly descended from Illustrious families closely connected with our nation�s military history, and numbering among their representatives, both General Herkimer of Revolutionary fame, and General Rosecrans of the Civil war.
Mr. and Mrs. Carson have become the parents of six children. George Edgar, who sustained the military traditions of his progenitors by enlisting In the United States navy, in October,1917, was among the first to volunteer from Colorado. He was sent to the Naval Training Station at Brooklyn, New York, and In July, 1918, was assigned to active duty, with the grade of third petty officer. He was later promoted to second officer and is now on the staff of Admiral Dunn, on active service in the Azores. The other children are: Florence K., now a student at Fort Collins; J. Earl; Gladys M.; Iris N.; and Theodore Lederer. Mr. Carson votes with the (Democratic party, which he has supported since reachingadult age, but he has never been an office seeker as he finds that his business affairs make constant demand upon his time and attention: He had no special advantages at the outset of his career but has worked steadily and persistently as the years have gone by and whatever prosperity has come to him has been the direct outcome of his labors and enterprise.
History of Colorado
-Illustrated �
-Volume IV �
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1919
Chicago
Supplied by Mrs. Gladys Powers (nee: Carson)
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