Rev. W. W. Carr

Rev. W. W. Carr, native of Vermont, born in Addison county, at Middlebury, July 23, 1850, is the son of William and Harriet E. (Rogers) Carr, both active members of the Methodist church. William Carr's father, also William, was a native of Rhode Island — of old Episcopalian circles there. W. W. Carr spent his boyhood at Middlebury, obtained a good common school education, and took a preparatory course at the Middlebury High School, and at Brandon, Vt. He also taught school during this time, and labored for himself since the age of twenty-one. At the age of twenty-three he came west and entered the Northwestern University, at Evanston, graduated in the class of 1877 with an honorable record, taking some prizes. During the last two years of the college course he preached at Brighton Park, and upon graduating joined the Illinois conference, and was stationed at Yates City. He held this charge one year, then went to Trivoli, Peoria county, where he remained two years, signalizing his work by a large revival. At Ipava, Fulton county, he remained three years. There he removed a considerable church debt, repaired the old building, and built a new parsonage. A church was built in his circuit during this time. Moving to Blandinsville, McDonough county, he held remarkable revival services, and during his one-year term repaired the church there. In 1881 he was appointed to the Toulon charge, and in 1886 to that of Kewanee. He married at his old Vermont home Miss Mattie L. Piper, daughter of David Piper, of Middlebury, an old family of that town. To them three sons and one daughter were born — Ruby Pearl, Harlow Piper, George W., and Sidney McCord. Rev. Mr. Carr's relation to Stark county is best told in the history of the Methodist church and of the Masonic, Odd-Fellow and Good Templar circles of Toulon.