Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



picture
Robert Miller Carson and Mildred Leech




Husband Robert Miller Carson 1

           Born: 28 May 1898 - near Homer City, Indiana Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: Harry Carson (1869-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Sarah Eliza "Lizzie" Miller (      -      ) 3


       Marriage: 16 Aug 1923 1



Wife Mildred Leech 1

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: Alvan V. Leech (      -1922) 1
         Mother: Rachael Wilson (      -Aft 1939) 1




Children
1 M Robert Miller, Jr. 1

           Born: 26 Feb 1927 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 



2 M William Leech Carson 1

           Born: 23 Oct 1931 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 May 1933 1
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


3 M Thomas Edward Carson 1

           Born: 25 Jun 1934 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 




General Notes: Husband - Robert Miller Carson


After graduation from the Indiana High School in 1915, he prepared himself for a career as a teacher at the State Teachers' College, from which he graduated in 1917. For a year, he taught school in Center Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and then, in the autumn of 1918, obtained a post in the Greensburg High School. However, three weeks later, on September 28, he enlisted in the Students Army Training Corps at the University of Pittsburgh. A month later, electing to serve in the Coast Artillery Corps, Mr. Carson was transferred to Fort Monroe in Virginia. Graduating on January 31, 1919, he was commissioned a second lieutenant. When the war concluded, Mr. Carson was discharged but he signed up again in the Coast Artillery Reserve Corps, and eventually held a captain's commission. Returning to his interrupted career, Mr. Carson became principal of the Fifth Ward School in Greensburg but, after a year, he became convinced that he desired a legal education. Accordingly, he attended the University of Pittsburgh, graduated in 1922 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and then, three years later, received his degree in law from the Pittsburgh Law School. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar the same year, he established himself in general practice in Greensburg in association with Bell and Bell and with George E. Barron. Mr. Carson's professional activities include membership in the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania State Bar Association and the Westmoreland County Bar Association. Always an active Republican, Mr. Carson was a school director of Southwest Greensburg beginning in 1927, and was a candidate for the office of district attorney in 1929. He was chairman of the Southwestern District of the Young Republican State Committee and was the first Westmoreland County chairman of that organization. Mr. Carson was for years an active member of the United Presbyterian Church, of which he was a trustee. He was also keenly interested in Sunday school work, being a teacher for the past fifteen years and superintendent of young people's work for five years. He was also the citizenship superintendent for Westmoreland County. Mr. Carson had wide civic interests as well, being a leader in the Americanism work of the American Legion and a local commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America. His war service was reflected in his membership in Robert G. Kotouch Post, No. 318, American Legion, and in the "40 and 8" group. Mr. Carson was also a member of the Greensburg Kiwanis Club, Lambda Chi Alpha and Delta Sigma Rho fraternities, the Westmoreland County School Directors' Association (of which he was president), and the Southwest Greensburg Volunteer Fire Company. He was also a member of the Grange. Hunting was Mr. Carson's outdoor sport, although travel and radio claimed much of his leisure time.

picture

Sources


1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 170.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1096, 1164.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1164.


Home | Table of Contents | Surnames | Name List

This Web Site was Created 15 Dec 2024 with Legacy 9.0 from Millennia