THOMAS HENRY CARSON, M. D.
Washington Carson was born in 1815, on the home farm in Fallowfield
township, this county. In
March, 1843, he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth, daughter of
Henry Allman, a
prosperous farmer of Washington
county.
The first of the Allman family
to arrive in this county was William, who was married in Maryland to Hannah
Thomas,
a native of that State,
and after their marriage they came hither, making a settlement in West
Pike Run township,
where they passed the remainder
of their pioneer lives, the husband dying first. They were the parents
of eight
children: Sarah, Elizabeth,
Hannah, James, John, William, Henry and Heyman, of whom Henry became the
father of
Mrs. Washington Carson.
He was married to Nancy, daughter of Alexander Hopkins, of West Pike Run
township,
and the young couple then
made their home in that township, passing away in after years within three
months of each
other. The following children
were born to them: Haman (in West Pike Run township), Elizabeth (Mrs. Carson),
William (in Indiana county,
Penn.), Alexander (in Youngstown, Ohio), Henry (deceased), Sarah Ann (deceased
wife
of John Johnson), Nancy
(wife of T. C. Hopkins, in Washington county). To the union of Washington
and Elizabeth
(Allman) Carson were born
children as follows; Nancy (wife of Peter Miller, of Hillsborougb), T.
H. (subject),
Margery (deceased wife of
Levi Winnett), Johanna (deceased wife of William Blythe), Frances and Elizabeth
(both at
home), and Hopkins (deceased
at the age of fourteen years). Mr. and Mrs. Carson always resided on the
home place,
which contains 220 acres
of land, and he also owned 168 acres in West Pike Run township. He died
May 27, 1889;
his widow is yet living
on the farm.
T. H. Carson, whose name
introduces this biography, was born October 26, 1853, on the home place
in Fallowfield
township, already referred
to. He attended the Southwestern State Normal School at California, Penn.,
and afterward
took a medical course at
the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1884. He then began the practice
of his
profession with Dr. J. Y.
Scott, of Washington (at that time in Bentleyville, this county), remaining
one year, at the end
of which time, his father
being an invalid, and his brother Hopkins having been killed by an accident,
our subject
abandoned for a time his
professional career, and returned to the farm. He now has charge of the
old home place,
which is situated eight
miles south of Monongahela, and four and one-half wiles west of Charleroi,
and in connection
with farming and stock raising
he has been in the real-estate business in Charleroi, where he still has
interests.
On September 14, 1892, Dr.
Carson was united in marriage with Ada, daughter of John H. and Virtue
Jenkins, of
West Pike Run township,
and of an old family in the county. Her father died in 1876; her mother
is yet living in West
Pike Run township. Their
children are Anna (wife of Prof. Hall, of the Southwestern State Normal
School), Ada
(Mrs. Dr. Carson), Walter
(a farmer in West Pike Run township), and Louise, Margaret and Roy (living
with their
mother). Dr. Carson and
his mother are members of the Methodist Church, and in his political preferences
he votes
the Democratic ticket. Squire
Henry Carson, the paternal great-grandfather of Dr. Carson, lived for years
at the
homestead where the latter
now resides, the farm having been in the family possession ever since It
was patented
from the Government by John
Hull, from whom Henry Carson purchased it.
[Further record of this family
will be found in the sketch of Jackson and Alexander S. Carson, elsewhere
in the
volume.]