John L. Carson and Ellen Thompson Taggart

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Husband John L. Carson ¹

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           Born: 13 Oct 1860 - near Mercersburg, Franklin Co, PA 1
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         Father: David Carson (1824-1862) 2
         Mother: Mary E. Patterson (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 25 Oct 1888 1

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Wife Ellen Thompson Taggart ³

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           Born: 6 Apr 1861 1
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         Father: Robert Taggart (1831-1909) 4 5
         Mother: Angeline Smith (1836-1920) 6

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Children

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1 M Dale Bradford Carson ⁷

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2 F Eleanor Lucile Carson ⁷

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3 M John Lind Carson, Jr. ⁷

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General Notes: Husband - John L. Carson

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In 1884 he engaged in banking under the tutelage of his uncle John L. Carson, Sr., of Lincoln, Nebraska, who was president of the Carson Bank at Brownsville, of the South Auburn Bank, and later of the Lincoln National Bank at Lincoln, Nebraska.
At the end of three years' experience, he took a position with the First National Bank at Omaha, and in 1890 was elected assistant cashier of one of its associated banks, the Union Stock Yards National Bank at Omaha.
In 1900 he was asked by Swift and Company of Chicago to become treasurer of one of its subsidiary companies, the North Packing and Provision Company of Boston, which he accepted.
In 1905 he became associated with the Jacob Dold Packing Company of Buffalo, New York, handling its finances and directing its office force. At the time of its reorganization in 1912 he was elected treasurer and director both of the parent company and its subsidiaries at Omaha and Washington. He retired in 1926.
Mr. Carson was a member of the Park, the Athletic and the Automobile Clubs of Buffalo and of the American Bankers' Association.

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General Notes: Wife - Ellen Thompson Taggart

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She was born in Bank Lane, above the old canal, Duquesne Borough, later included in the north side of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended Mrs. Marshall's private school, the Irwin Ave. public school and graduated as English salutatorian from the Pittsburgh Female College in 1880.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 187.

2 Editor, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 852.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 182.

4 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 289.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 88.

6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 181.

7 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 189.