472                 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

merchant and physician at Center Point, He was born in Ohio and came
to Clay county, Indiana, in February of 1857, locating in Sugar Ridge
township, near Center Point, where he bought a farm and also taught
school for two years. Moving then to Center Point he practiced medi-
cine there during the remainder of his life with the exception of four
years which he spent in Stockton. He was married in Ohio to Margaret
Curry, a native daughter of that state, and Mrs. Carrithers is the younger
of their two children, a son and a daughter. The father died in Center
Point in 1878. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Carrithers was blessed by the
birth of nine children, four sons and five daughters, namely: Rosa, Susie,
Stella, Porter (deceased), Ellen, Gertrude and three who died in infancy.
All were born and reared in Clay county.
    In 1880 Mr. and Mrs. Carrithers moved to Center Point, but after
two years there they returned to the farm and located on one hundred
and twenty-six acres of land, their present homestead. Mr. Carrithers has
been a life-long supporter of Republican principles, an active worker in
local party ranks, and he is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity.

    Frederick Morse Peavay.—Prominent among the energetic and pro-
gressive men who have been actively identified with the development and
advancement of the agricultural interests of Clay county is Frederick M.
Peavey, a well-known and highly esteemed resident of Clay City. Coming
from a long line of New England ancestry, he was born, August 2,1855,
in Moultonboro, Carroll county. New Hampshire, a son of Alvin Peavey.
    Joseph Peavey, the grandfather of Frederick M., was born, it is
thought, in Maine. He was a man of ability, and for many years was
successfully engaged in mercantile pursuits in Tuftonboro, New Hamp-
shire, where he spent his last days. His wife, whose maiden name was
Mary L. Drew, was born in Maine, and after the death of her husband
went to Boston to live with her chilciren, and died in that city at the very
remarkable age of one hundred and seven years. Of her family of
eleven sons and two daughters but one child is living, that being Mrs.
Lizzie Tower, of South Boston, Massachusetts.
    A native of Tuftonboro, New Hampshire. Alvin Peavey was reared
to habits of industry, and began his active career in Boston, being first
a bell boy in the old United States hotel, in which he subsequently worked
his way up until made clerk. He was afterwards employed as hotel man-
ager in different places, having served in that capacity in many of the
leading hotels of the East, including among others the old Willard's,
the National, the Ebbet, and the Kirkwood, in Washington; the Dixon,
at Westerly, Rhode Island; and the Fabyan, the famous White Mountain
resort, in New Hampshire. Retiring from hotel life in 1892, he assumed
charge of the estate of his father-in-law, in Meredith, New Hampshire.
and there resided until his death, September 2, 1900. He married first
Abbie Augusta Morse, who was born in Moultonboro, a daughter of
Calvin and Lydia (Moulton) Morse. She died October 15, 1869, leaving
six children, namely: Daniel W., Frederick Morse, George, Elmer Alvin,
Mortimer, and Abbie Frances. He married second Mrs. Laura (Ela)
Bedee, daughter of Joseph Ela, and widow of Daniel G. Bedee.
    Beginning life as his father’s assistant, Frederick M. Peavey worked
with him in various hotels, remaining in the East until 1873. In that
year he came to Indiana to visit his uncle, Hazen Peavey, at Howesville,
and being especially pleased with the country roundabout has since been