Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....CARSWELL, RAYMOND H. March 20, 1881 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. II, page 236, 1923

     CARSWELL, RAYMOND HENRY.  Among the energetic and progressive citizens of 
Jacksonville who find time in the midst of business activities to serve their 
fellow citizens in public capacities is RAYMOND HENRY CARSWELL.  Mr. CARSWELL 
is the proprietor of a prosperous drug business, built up through industry and 
good management, and is also serving as a member of the Board of Commissioners 
of Duval County, a position in which his experience as a business man is 
proving valuable in governing county affairs.
     Mr. CARSWELL was born March 20, 1881, at Homerville, the county seat of 
Clinch County, Georgia, and is a son of ANDREW J. and MATTIE (SMITH) CARSWELL, 
also natives of the Cracker State.  His father began life as a farmer and 
subsequently engaged in the naval stores business, eventually locating at 
Homerville, where he divided his time between conducting a mercantile business 
and carrying on agricultural pursuits.  He was held in high esteem by his 
fellow citizens, and held numerous offices, being at the time of his death 
treasurer of Clinch County.  In politics he was a democrat, and his fraternal 
affiliation was with the Masons.  He died in 1889, in the faith of the Baptist 
Church, of which he had been a life long member.  Mrs. CARSWELL, who was born 
December 12, 1843, still survives him.  They had nine children, of whom three 
are living, RAYMOND HENRY having been the seventh in order of birth.
     RAYMOND HENRY CARSWELL was but eight years of age at the time of his 
father’s death, but was given good educational advantages, first attending the 
public schools of Homerville, later pursuing courses in normal schools, the 
Georgia Normal College at Athens, Georgia, and the Georgia Normal Institute at 
Abbeville, that state.  Following the completion of his studies in the last 
named school he entered the Atlanta School of Pharmacy, and was graduated 
therefrom March 29, 1909, immediately following which he came to Jacksonville, 
Florida, and embarked in the drug business, in which he has been engaged to the 
present.  He has an excellent patronage and conducts a modern establishment 
along progressive lines, carrying a full stock of drugs, medicines, cigars, 
candies, toilet articles, sundries, etc., and catering to a high class trade.  
Mr. CARSWELL is numbered among Jacksonville’s reliable business men and is an 
active member of the Chamber of Commerce.  A democrat in politics, for a number 
of years he has taken an interest in civic affairs.  In 1918 he was elected a 
member of the Board of Commissioners of Duval County, and is now serving his 
second term.  As a member of this body his work has been constructive and 
highly gratifying to his fellow citizens.  He is likewise well known in 
fraternal circles.  He first became a member of the Masons when he joined 
Cassia Lodge No. 26, F. and A. M., at Homerville, Georgia, from which he 
demitted and became a member of Solomon Lodge No. 20, F. and A. M., 
Jacksonville, also holding membership at this time in Jacksonville Chapter No. 
12, R. A. M.  He also belongs to Jacksonville Lodge, B. P. O. E.; the Knight of 
Pythias and the Loyal Order of Moose, in all of which he is popular with his 
fellow members.
     In September, 1916, Mr. CARSWELL married Miss MEC (sic) A. BATTEY, and 
they are the parents of two children:  RAY and MILDRED.


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