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,
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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.