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Carville D. Benson's cabinet card was made by the
Ashman Studio in Baltimore at the end of the
nineteenth-century.
Mr. Benson is enumerated in the 1900 census as a
Maryland-born lawyer whose birth was in August 1872.
He was married to Harriet Benson for six years and
they were the parents of Robert M. born October 1894,
John O. born April 1896 and Carville D. born January 1898.
With a little sleuthing, I discovered that Carville
D. Benson
became Speaker of the House of Delegates in Maryland in
1906,
held several other political offices and was Maryland
State
Insurance Commissioner at the time of his death in 1929.
He also served in the U.S. Congress beginning in 1918.
At the time of his death, he was survived by his widow
Harriet
C. Benson, four sons: Carville D, John Oregon, William
Howard
and Brian Miller Benson and two daughters: Harriet L.
Benson
and Mrs. Carvilla Beecher.
This photo was obtained in an e-Bay auction along with
six others
of which only two are identified, Miss Johnson and John
Thomas Varley.
Interestingly, the Bensons lived in what is now Relay-Halethorpe
area of Baltimore County. In a 1997 Baltimore Sun news
article,
a brief history of this area explained that Oregon E.
Benson and
C. R. Varley Myers were early residents. There is no
doubt a
connection to the photos below (all taken in the Varley
Photo Studio)
and the unusual given name of Oregon.
Anyone knowing the connection or especially having
a biologic link
to these folks should contact the webmaster.
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