Bio of Carruth, O. P. (b.1829) Wabasha Co., MN
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, farmer, was born in Jefferson county, New York, September
8, 1829. He was one of eight children born to William and Eleanor
Patterson-Carruth, natives of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Fort Anne,
New York, respectively. The subject of our sketch was raised in Jefferson
county, and when twenty-one years of age he went to Auburn, New York,
where he spent six years in a boot and shoe establishment. October 27,
1859, he was married to Mary Veeder, a native of that county, and a
daughter to Dr. Veeder, one of the old residents of this township.
Immediately after his marriage he located on his present farm in Mount
Pleasant. His wife died March 19, 1879. She was the mother of four
children, two of whom are living : Fred. H., who is running a flourishing
newspaper at Estilline, Dakota, and Ellen B. January 3, 1880, he wedded
Sarah L. Eastman-Gorton, of Athens, Vermont. Mr. Carruth is a member of
Lake City lodge, No. 22, I.O.O.F. In politics he is republican, and since
1876 has been chairman of the board of supervisors.