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 102 CARR CARRIGAN. the poor, etc., rendering most efficient ser- vice in each of these positions. He has been president of many local improvement, char- itable or business societies, among them the Rock Hill Cemetery Corporation, Foxbor- ough Savings Bank, Foxborough Loan Fund & Building Association, and Kankakee Improvement Company, the Temperance Reform Club, Sylvan Association, "Pro Bono Publico ; " chairman of the committee for improving Foxborough common, build- ing town hall, and memorial hall. He was the financial backing of the " Home Library," a literary weekly local paper, in 1857 ; established and gave financial aid for several years to the Foxborough English and classical school, which was succeeded by the Foxborough high school ; organized the Foxborough fire department in 1850, and was captain of Cocasset fire engine company. He built the first cottage in Cottage City, and organized the company that built up this famous watering place, personally superintending the work. He had charge of building straw shops in Nantucket and Medfield, Medfield town hall, Sea Cliff Inn at Nantucket, Sea View House at Cottage City, Mattakeset Lodge in Katama, and the large hotel and other buildings at Shelter Island Park, L. I. On the 4th of February, 1S44, at Foxbor- ough, Mr. Carpenter married Catharine E., daughter of William and Hannah (Hall) Kerr. Of this union were Gardner Anson, William Daniels, Julia Alice (deceased), Jennie Wood (wife of Robert M. Powers), and Catherine Payson (wife of Irving W. Lane). CARR, Alonzo Augustus, was born June 7, 1836, in Hudson, Middlesex county. His early education was received in the common schools of Fitchburg and Ashby, with the exception of one term in New Ipswich Academy. While a young man, he taught school in the towns of Gardner and Ashby. He held a clerkship in Beaufort and Charleston, S. C, from 1864 to 1866. In 1866 he, with Henry C. Wilder, bought of R. S. Simonds, in Ashby, a tub and pail manufactory, under the firm name of Carr & Wilder, continuing in business together until i88t. He has since carried on the business alone. Mr. Carr was married in Ashby, January 12, 1870, to Hattie M., daughter of William and Fanny L. Whitney. This union has been blessed with a family of six children : Blanche L., Bertha G., Helen F., Lawrence Whitney, Arthur W., ami Myron A. Carr. Mr. Carr served as representative to the General Court in 1874 and 1883. He has been selectman, town clerk, and superin- tendent of schools. He is president of the Soldiers' Memorial Association, and has been a member of the church finance committee, and an officer in the Sabbath- school of the Congregational church, of which he is a member. Mr. Carr enlisted in the 1st Massachusetts cavalry, September 25, 1S61, and served three years in North and South Carolina, Florida, and Virginia. He was in Gen. Grant's army at the siege of Petersburg, Ya., and was subsequently honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of service. His father and mother are living, the former aged eighty and the latter seventy- five. Mrs. Carr's father is still living at the advanced age of ninety-one, and is father of Myron W. Whitney, the celebrated basso of Boston. The subject of this sketch, with his wife, brother, sister and aged parents, all living quite near each other, may be mentioned as a pleasant family circle, exceptionally beloved in each other's life. CARRIGAN, EDWARD C, was born in England, March 15, 1850, of Irish parents, and died in Colorado, November 7, 1888. He came to this country in 1857, being but seven years of age. He was a vigor- ous, intellectual lad, and early determined to make something of himself. When but thirteen years of age he enlisted as a drummer-boy in the 1st Vermont regiment, ami was twice wounded in action. After leaving the army, he studied at Woodstock, Vt., Dean Academy, Boston evening high school, and entering Dartmouth College, was graduated in the class of 1877. He was a member of the Dartmouth Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, secretary of the Alumni Association of New England, and a member uf the board of councilors of the Alumni. After leaving college he devoted himself to journalism, serving with characteristic energy the " Herald," " Globe," and " Jour- nal " of the city of Boston. In 1S80 he entered the law office of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, where he continued to successfully prosecute his life work. He was a grad- uate of the Boston University law school. While studying law he passed the ex- amination of the Boston school board for a certificate of the highest grade, giving him the rank of head master of the Latin anil high school. In 1881 the school board placed him at the head of the Bos- ton evening high school, of which he had been a pupil. This school rapidly ad-