CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: JOHN CARSON (1881)

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CRAWFORD COUNTY
HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.724-725 
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

JOHN CARSON, photographer, Bucyrus is a son of Robert and Bessie (Katon) Carson, and was born in
November 1828 in County Cavan. Ireland. He received but little Schooling and at the age of 7, left home to work
at whatever his hands found to do. At the age of 18 he came to America and the voyage which occupied ten weeks,
ended at New York May 2, 1848. He went to New Jersey and spent two years laboring there on a farm. He next
went to New York and shipped to New Orleans, where he remained over winter; in the spring he came up the river
and made his home in Pennsylvania, near Greensburg, where he found employment on the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad. There also he received his religious Convictions and became a member of the M. E. Church: he then
devoted three years to the trade of carriage-making and then commenced daguerreotyping at Mt. Pleasant, Penn:
in about 1859, he came to Ohio and settled in Upper Sandusky where he worked at his first trade of
carriage-making until 1864, when he came to Bucyrus and followed the same business for some five years. He was
for some time owner of a photograph gallery in Galion, Ohio, but soon returned to Bucyrus and established a
gallery in the west end of the Quinby Block, where he is now located with every facility for the production of good
pictures, possessing good taste and artistic skill. He was married in December. 1854, while in Greensburg, Penn.,
to Miss Zeruiah Steelsmith of that place and of this union, there are living six children: Mary E., Anna F., Charles
R., Rorbert R., Frank W. and George W. Three are dead: William E. and John R., who are buried in Wyandot Co.,
and Lucy B. in Bucyrus. The parent of Mr. Carson were both natives of Ireland, where the father was a
shoemaker and also a farmer. He raised seven children and with his wife he removed to this country and settled in
Albany, N. Y., where he followed his trade. Both of Mr. Carson's parents remained in this county during their lives.
On Oct. 25, 1880, Charles R. Carson, oldest son of John Carson, took charge of the photograph gallery and is
doing excellent business. He has enjoyed six years active experience in the work, and his work gives evidence of
true artistic taste and skill. Careful attention to detail is necessary to success in taking pictures and realizing this,
Mr. Carson has studied posing and lighting subjects, retouching of negatives and the toning of pictures until the
beauty and grace of his work are subjects of just pride. He has all the modern facilities for taking a large variety of
styles having just added the "Winter" and "Apple Blossom" scenes which are among the latest and most
attractive.