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CARR, JOSEPH S. attorney and counsellor at law, is a native of Missouri; born in 1832; he was the oldest of a family of four children; his father, John H. Carr, was a native of Kentucky, who developed a surprising energy, that carried him forward to a successful mercantile career in the mature years of manhood; although during his early years he practiced as an attorney, through natural ability and education he became a remarkably successful trader, and became exceedingly wealthy; he was assassinated at the city hall, in the city of St. Louis, which sad event was currently reported in the newspapers of that date; at one period of his life he was robbed of $40,000 by the Indians belonging to the Comanche tribe, suffering untold hardships on the confines of a desert. Col. Carr, who heads this sketch, received his collegiate education at the old college in St. Charles, Mo.; after completing his studies he made a trip to California, where trouble arising with the Indians he enlisted, and was made 1st lieutenant of Co. F, of the 1st Bat. of Cal. Vols.; after the war he engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he continued two years; returning home on the 10th of May, 1859, he was married to Miss Ann Georgia Logan, a daughter of James and Elizabeth P. Logan; they have had a family of eleven children, of whom eight are living. In 1860, Col. Carr was admitted to the bar, in Anderson County, Mo., and in 1869 was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Illinois, a member of the State Guards when the war broke out, he received orders to report to Gen. Price; reported at the general headquarters, near Lexington, about five days before the battle in which he took an active part, and was one of the officers appointed to receive the surrender of arms; he participated in many important battles fought in the West; at Vicksburg he tendered his resignation to Jefferson Davis; in 1864 he became a resident of Kane, Greene County, where he has gained a large practice as an attorney.