- ROBERT CARR, of the firm of TAYLOR & CARR, Koshkonong
Hotel, Edgerton; born in
- Verona, Oneida Co., N.Y., Nov. 4, 1831; came to Wisconsin
March 29, 1854; is a carpenter and joiner; enlisted March 1864,
in the 49th Regt. Wis. Vols., Co. B, under Capt. HUBBARD, as
first Corporal; served six months; was honorably discharged same
year. In 1872, Messrs. TAYLOR & CARR purchased the hotel
property known as Koshkonong Hotel, on the bank of the beautiful
lake. This house is situated most delightfully, nothing is wanting
to supply comfort and enjoyment to the pleasure-seeker; there
is abundance of fish in the lake; small game numerous; a beautiful
grove but a few rods from the house; several small steamboats
ply between the towns on the lake, which are in sight of the
hotel; the charges are more reasonable than usual at summer resorts.
Mr. CARR married Miss Helen L. WILLIAMS, daughter of Asa WILLIAM
and Sarah CARR, of New York. They had four children - Florence
L., born July 8, 1854 (died July 29, 1855); Edgar L., born Nov.
8, 1857 (died Aug. 10, 1858); Lelia D. Emma, April 28, 1860 (died
Jan. 20, 1865); Luetta, born Nov. 1, 1862 (died March 11, 1863).
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 815.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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