W. H. Carman

biography

Carman, W. H., liveryman, Meadville, was born in this county in 1847, and is a son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Carr) Carman, the father a native of New Jersey, a carpenter by trade, and who came with his parents to this county at an early day; the mother of German and Scotch origin and a native of Pennsylvania. Our subject, the eldest of a family of seven children, was reared on a farm, acquired a common school education, and at the age of fifteen went on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad as fireman. After acting in this capacity for three and a half years he was promoted to engineer, ran the lightning train on the Emlenton, Shippensville & Clarion Railroad and has been credited with making, while on that road, the fastest time ever made on a narrow gauge railroad. After five years of this life,



Mr. Carman embarked in the hotel and livery business, and in 1879 came to Meadville to engage in his present business, that of proprietor of the Park Avenue Livery Stable, a two-story structure 50x100 feet, where he has a fine array of roadsters, elegant carriages and wagons of all descriptions. Our subject was married in 1880 to Miss Turilla Phipps, a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. Carman is a member of the K. of H., A. 0. U. W., and K. of P.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 718.