The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-03

! There is no better known individual
among the 1000 employees in this world
wide known department OF Uncle Sam
than the subject Of this article, referring
of course to the Iaymen.
Frequently mentioned in these col
umns. we deem It both a pleasure and a
privilege to note his past career. cover
ing almost half a century.
Capt. John H. Carr was discovered in
the City Of Brotherly Love some time in
the year 1886 during the administration
of President James Knox Polk, and
while the United States had the war with
Mexico on hand. Owing to his aptness,
after attending the public schools for
few years he matriculated at Newark
College, Delaware. During the second
sixteen years OF age, fired with patriotic
impulses, he left college and enlisted in
Pennsylvania regiment, with which he
served until mustered out in 1866, at the
expiration OF his term of service.
During the battle OF Gettysburg, al
though wounded, he remained with the
command. In the memorable Wilderness
campaign his regiment belonged to the
famous Irish Brigade, First Division,
Second Army Corps, better known as
Gen. Hancock's. Returning to Philadel-
phia at the case of the war, not out OF
, his teens, Hon. William Kelley, of pig
from fame and one Of the leading men,
bers Of the House OF Representatives, in
6uced young Carr to go to Washington,
where he obtained for HIM situation IN
the Capitol, in which he remained about
two years.
This was before civil service in con-
nection with positions under the govern
ment had been preached. Returning to
Philadelphia, he soon secured a clerical
position under the municipal government,
but the allurements OF the nations Cap
/ ital were overpowering, and Carr re-
turned, and through the influence Of Hon.
Leonard Meyers. Representative from his
district, he obtained a position in the
Post-of1ce Department.
| Ha was obliged to resign. About this
time he married. He engaged in school
teaching and became popular with both
pupils and parents. But this vocation
was not sufficiently attractive. He next
| turned his attention to farming, and
says the land was so poor 1t was i'm
possible to raise a disturbance" Back
| again to Washington he came, when
| Frank W. Palmer, the very last Of the
grand old-time Public Printers, appointed
him a Waterman, in which capacity he
continued. 1t is not generally known that
! the worthy subject Of this article has
| survived one of the most serious ampu-
tations performed during the civil war
Desperately wounded in the left arm by
conister shot during the terrible on
| slaught in front of Petersburg, Va, June
| Is, 1864, the limb was so dreadfully man
| gled that the surgeons were obliged to
remove the arm from the socket. Doubt
| less few veterans of the civil war are
| living at this time who were obliged to
undergo a similar amputation. This is
the honorable record Of one Of the
brightest persons whom II is a delight
to meet OF a sunny disposition, well
informed on all questions, a radical anti
knocker, and suffering almost unendura-
bly, betimes from his old wounds Of al
most half a century ago, he bears his
cross patiently, with a superabundance
OF grit.