[)r. William Carson. 6i 



Dr. Carsoti lias lived in the house where he saw his last, 138 

 E. Third street, for the past thirty years, and has there reared 

 his family. 



In 1S54 he married Miss Louisa Whiteman, daughter of 

 Louis Whiteman. In 1863, his former wife having died, he 

 was married to Miss Ksther A. Irwin, daughter of Archibald 

 Irwin, of this city. She, too, died June 8, 1891. 



The children are Miss Jane F. Carson, Mrs. James J. Faran, 

 wife of Fire Commissioner Faran ; Miss Mary C. Carson and 

 Dr. Arch. I. Carson, who was associated with his father in 

 practice. One other son, Louis Whiteman Carson, died an 

 infant. The other relatives of Dr. Carson are two brothers 

 and two sisters, Mr. Erskine Carson, of Hillsboro, who was 

 at the bedside of his brother at his death ; Mr. David Carson, 

 of West Plains, Mo.; Mrs. S. F. McCoy, of Chillicothe ; Miss 

 Alice Carson, of Georgetown, D. C. 



The death of a gentle, refined, upright and broad-minded 

 intelligent citizen is a shock to every community correlative 

 with his acquaintance in that community. Death emphasizes 

 worth, hence a man's worth is only fully appreciated when he 

 is stricken by the fell destroyer, however well his work and 

 attainments when living may have been known. When that 

 man has been identified in one place for upward of forty years 

 in the practice of medicine, the power of good he has wrought 

 is inestimable, and his loss is deplored, because of the certain 

 knowledge to many that in life he possessed the demonstrated 

 ability to help, to strengthen and to save. 



By the death of Dr. Carson, the Cincinnati Society of Nat- 

 ural History loses one of its active and most valued members; 

 the medical profession of Cincinnati is bereft of one who was 

 an example of the highest type of the physician ; and the 

 community at large is deprived of the services of a broad- 

 minded citizen, a wise counselor and an upright man. L. 



