Allegheny County PA Archives History .....George Duffy CAROTHERS Family History May 3, 1930 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Beatty klbeatty@npgcable.com January 21, 2007, 10:10 am At home of Mrs Emma E. Russell No 1219 Porterfield St Allegheny Co., Pittsburgh, May 3d, 1930. Mrs Russell says her father, Geo Duffy Carothers was born Oct 2 [unreadable] 1845 [unreadable word] Baden, Pa & was killed at Wellsville, O shops of the PRR in a collision on a train which he was pulolmy [sic or fulolmy, writing is very shaky suddenly] on Oct 17, 1892 (1893) World Fa trcen [sic or treen or heen] his mother died when he was an infant & [he] was raised by an Aunt where he was not given the education which he so much wished & was blamed for the mischief done by others which resulted in his joining the Union Army in 1861 when a boy & served 4 yrs & was honorably discharged after the close of the war & was in the review at Washington D.C. He belonged to battery H Penna Independent Light Artillery. He was sergeant. When he returned from the war, he didn't go back to the family that raised him, came here to the home of his older brother Joe. He also had an older brother John & a sister Rose & another sister, both of whom were married & Mrs Russell will try to get me their names & where they lived. The aunt who raised him was a Mrs Patterson whose husband was the living [in] the home being a farm back of East Liverpool, O. Mrs McLane, a cousin of Geo D. lived at East Liverpool, O & her daughter Miss McLane is in the library there & can give information. Mrs Russell says she feels sure that the mother of her father's father was a Duffy. Geo D's father married a second [time] in Baden, Pa & some of his sons by 2d wife are now living there. Mrs R's aunt Rose married a Carroll, her husband was a Carroll. John is a Catholic, Mrs R is a Pres which was the faith in which she was raised. Her Uncle Joe had a big family, a number of whom died young. Living here are Charles in Allegheny, Robert, Benjamin living on north side. She thinks the youngest one. She says Benjamin can tell more about the family of his Uncle John, one of whose sons was a Robert. George D. Carothers was married at Wellsville, O Apr 14, 1870 to Esther E. Keck born in Mercer Co, Pa Oct 5, 1848 daughter of Abraham Keck & his wife Catharine Carrier. It was Abraham Keck who was one of twelve children that Franklin D. Carothers spoke of Jany 4 or 5, 1923 in San Francisco, Calif. Geo D. Carothers who was a passenger conductor on PRR running largely out of Cleveland, O where he lived & where his seven children were all born & all are now living but the oldest son George A. 1. Emma Elizabeth b Feby 1, 1871 2. George A. born Apr 28, 1873 3. Daniel born Feby 18, 1875 4. Clara born Jany 6, 1877 5. Eva Leona born Jany 28, 1880 6. Frank Keck born July 28, 1883? 7. Jane born may 11, 1886 1. Emma E. was married June 23, 1897 at Ravenna, O where she was teaching & living at the time, by the Meth minister there Rev Dr [not listed] to Edward Pollard Russell born Feby 6, 1868 at Canton, O son of Charles Edward Russell & wife Helen Johnson & died Jany 15, 1920 & is buried at Ravenna, O. He was an architect of the firm of Rutan & Russell. The Hotel Schenley was one of his buildings. No issue. The Russells were from Nantucket Island & Mrs R's great grandfather was a whaler & Mrs R. has a remarkably well preserved warming pan & a chauffer [sic] ie a box abt 1 foot cube which they took to the unheated churches of the period filled with charcoal to keep warm. Mrs Russell is teaching in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Her mother died Oct 11, 1913 in Chanute, Kansas while there on a visit & is buried beside her husband in the cemetery at Ravenna, O. 2. Geo A. Carothers was married Dec 25, 1894 in Cleveland, O to Miss Clara Moore of New Cumberland, WVA. She died of smallpox in Cleveland, O the year of the smallpox epidemic there & is buried there but probably no marker. Geo A. died July 31, 1926 after his wife & is buried in Toledo, O. Geo A. was yardmaster at Toledo of a trunk line road. He had one child by 1st wife: 1. Hazel Carothers born in Cleveland O Sept 29, 1896 who married Sumner Carlon [sic] of Beaver, Pa where they now live & have one child. 1. Sumner Carlon Jr aged 4 Geo A. married 2d a French Catholic widow who survived him but by whom fortunately he had no issue. 3. Daniel married Edna Poole from Findlay, O where her father was in oil business They were married in Findlay O. He travels for an undertaking firm of Galion, O & both are living in the Carothers homestead at 83 West Main St, Ravenna O & have had two children both born at Ravenna, O I. Daniel 1st died in infancy II. Daniel 2d born about 1912 or 1913 as he is now in Oberlin College, O a freshman. 4. Clara married Apr 20, 1903 in Ravenna, O to William Manning Fowler of Kokomo, Ind who was abt 22 yrs older than she. He died in Kokomo, Ind abt 1923 & is buried there & has a marker. He was a hotel manager. She now lives at 426 Ohio Ave Warwood, WVA near Wheeling WVA. She had one child I. William Manning Fowler Jr born at Ravenna, O aged abt 23 or 24. He is miner [best guess] 5. Eva Leonora was married at Ravenna, O to Guy A. Philbrick of a New England [family?] & both now at Cuyahoga Falls, O where he has a position with the city. Have but one child born in Cuyahoga Falls, O. I. Josephine Philbrick who married Anthony Koval of a Bohemian family. He has just graduated from a school & passed the Ohio State Board. 6. Frank K. was married in San Francisco, Calif to a Calif girl from Chico, Calif & both are living at 1695 Filbert St San Francisco, Calif where he is a public account. No issue. 7. Jane called Jennie married May 20, 1903 at Ravenna, O to John C. Mather of Alliance O where he is a foreman in a steel mill. Both living at Alliance, O at 536 East College Ave Have 3 children all born near Alliance, O I. Edna Mather II. John C. Mather Jr III. Robert Mather Mr Mather comes from the old Cotton Mather family. Mrs Russell knows of an elderly lady living in Allegheny probably in her 80's & whose name may be Machesney who is some connection of the family & from whom she thinks she can get some information for me. Wm M. Fowler Jr was born Jany 26, 1904. Clara Moore, wife of Geo A. C. died May 8, 1904 Mrs Russell treated me with royal kindness & courtesy & is a fine woman with intelligence & strong mind. She said her brother Frank was a mischievous boy & his father would not reprove him saying he had been the same kind of a boy & could not, recalling his own youth, punish him. She said her father was proud & would not talk of his Carothers relatives or let them visit them. The reason was that all of his brothers were hard drinkers & John & Joe particularly would very often get reeling drunk. Frank came to school to her & by reason of his pranks, others of the family deserted him, but she stuck to him & her influence & care were the big factors in making of him the man he is. Additional Comments: Extracted from Josiah V. Thompson Journals This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 7.5 Kb