Carr, Thomas (2)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Washington County, Pa., Feb. 23 1793. He removed, when quite young, with his father to Tuscarawas County, O., was converted in his youth, and, after, spending some years as local preacher, was admitted into the Ohio Conference, wherein he continued to travel until 1824, when he joined the Pittsburgh Conference. Subsequently he became a member of the Erie Conference, and in it labored to the close of his life, Sept. 27, 1856. Mr. Carr was a most successful preacher, his mind well disciplined, and his life exemplary. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1857, p. 375.
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