NJGenWeb ~ Morris County, New Jersey

The career of Samuel B. CARSON furnishes an example of what can be accomplished with but a few of the advantages of favoring circumstances but when one is endowed with ambition, ability, and untiring energy. These last qualifications young Samuel B. CARSON brought with him from Ireland and very little besides in the form of money or influence. His success is therefore a matter for just pride as it has been entirely due to his efforts and native staunchness.

The son of Robert and Elizabeth CARSON, the former of whom died in Ireland in 1869 at the age of forty-nine, Samuel B. CARSON was also born in Ireland, in county Tyrone. Cookstown was the place in Tyrone in which his parents lived, and here May 12, 1861, he was born. His education was achieved at the Cookstown Academy, but he was from an early age interested in the possibilities that beckoned to a young man from across the water. Here, therefore, when he was only twenty-one years old and without any of his blood or kindred, he came, settling first in Toronto, Canada. Here he remained for two years, leaving Canada to come to Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The disastrous flood of 1889 practically drove out a large number of people, and he was of these. Leaving Williamsport, he went to Lockhaven, Pennsylvania, where he remained for three years. This stay was followed by one of five years in Philadelphia. His final move was made March 5, 1898, when he came to Morristown, and established himself in his present business, the firm being then known as CROSBY & HILL. About four years ago in March, 1909, the name was changed to its present style of S. B. CARSON Company. This department store is the largest in Morris county, as it is also the best equipped in every device for the facilitation of business. Mr. CARSON is a Republican in his political faith, and is an attendant of the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown.

He married, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1891, Emma E. SCHALL, born in Williamsport. Her parents are both dead. They have no children.

This biography was transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003).

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