1855 31 Front Row, Memphis, Tennessee.[1]
1857-1859 30 Front Row, Memphis, Tennessee.
1858 3 Front Row, Memphis, Tennessee.
1857 January 1. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) January 1, 1857, Vol. VII, No. 246, P. 4.
Carr’s Premium Gallery! Having just returned from a business tour North with all the facilities for taking fine, durable Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, &c., I am now ready in person to serve my friends and the public generally in my lone, on the most reasonable terms.
I have no new fangled patents and clap-trap processes to offer the public. My establishment has to stand or fall amid all the blazonry of its neighbors, upon its own merits. sep2.
Advertisement ran from January 1 to July 1, 1857.
1857 January 7. The Panola Star. (Panola, Mississippi.) January 7, 1857, Vol. I, P. 3.
If You Want Fine !!! Pictures !!! Call At Carr’s Premium Gallery! When you come to Memphis. Having Just returned from a business tour North, with all the facilities for taking fine, durable Daguerreotypes, &c., I am now ready, in person, to serve my friends and the public generally, in my line, on the most reasonable terms. I have no knew fangled patents and clap-trap processes to offer to the public. My establishment has to stand or fall, amid all the blazonry of its neighbors, upon its own merits.
Advertisement ran from January 7 to 21, 1857.
1857 June 21. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) June 21, 1857, Vol. VIII, No. 80, P. 3.
Carr’s Gallery Of Fine Arts, Corner of Madison Street, No. 30 Front Row. Pictures Of All Kinds, Qualities and Descriptions Taken, Regardless Of All Clap-Trap Patent Pretenders, Work warranted as good and cheaper than any in the city. The patronage of the honest, the considerate and economical, is respectfully solicited.
Advertisement ran from June 21 to November 8, 1857.
1857 September 1. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) September 1, 1857, Vol. VIII, No. 141, P. 3.
Probable Homicide.—The particulars of a very tragic affair which occurred on Sunday night, is thus recounted by the Evening News. We have heard nothing, after the most diligent inquiry, contrary to the facts here detailed:
A man named Slider was shot last night, on Shelby street near Trezevant, by another named James R. Pollock. The weapon used was a pistol, and the ball entered the stomach. There was an unsettled difficulty between the parties, the origin and progress of which has been related to us. It appears that they have both been paying court at the shrine of a young woman who resides on Poplar street, with whom Pollock had exchanged daguerreotypes and perhaps other tokens of reciprocal affection and confidence. But, as “the course of true love never does run smooth,” a misunderstanding of some sort arose between then, upon which Pollock demanded the return of his pictured semblances. The lady complied, though, at the time of giving him possession, she took occasion to express her opinion that he was “no part of a gentleman.” Pollock replied that he could not strike a woman, but if any male friend would take her part he would resent the insult. Slider, who was present, remarked that he would stand for the lady. Pollock then drew upon him, but the interference of by-standers prevented a collision.
The parties did not meet again until last night, when Pollock escorted a lady home from church who lived on Shelby street, Slider and a friend being in advance of them. Just past the house where the lady resided, Slider halted, and when the lady entered he called to Pollock that he wished to speak with him, advancing towards him at the time. Pollock told him to stand back, and he stopped, when P. fired upon him. After the shooting Pollock entered the house and remained a few minutes, when he left and has not since been heard from. The wounded man is expected to die hourly.
Pollock was in the employ of Dr. Y. A. Carr, learning the daguerreotyping business. He came from Washington county, Ark. Slider was a blacksmith, in the employ of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad Company. He was a German.
Up to the very last hour of going to press Pollock had not been arrested. The wounded man now lies in a hopeless condition at a house on Treazavent street, near the river.
Dr. Keller is his attending physician. The wounds are in the abdomen and under the left arm.
1857 September 20. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) September 20, 1857, Vol. VIII, No. 158, P. 2.
The Very Best. I Would respectfully inform my patrons and the public generally, that I have secured the artistic services of Mr. Vassallo, one of the best artists in the Union. Come and see whether I testify truly, and whether such professional skill cannot produce for you the best pictures you ever saw of yourselves—“dead earnest.” Y. A. Carr, Picture Gallery No 30 Front Row.
Advertisement ran from September 20 to November 8, 1857.
1858 June 10. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) June 10, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 71, P. 2.
A Daguerreotypist’s Adventure.—We find in the papers the relation of an occurrence to an “itinerant catcher,” that may, for ought we know, refer to our Dr. Carr, who is away from the city on one of his artistic tours, and the narrative we copy does not mention the name of the daguerreotypist. The artist in question, having found a picturesque view in a secluded and little frequented spot, fixed his instruments and very soon had the landscape upon his plate. Just as he had finished fixing it with his chemicals, a heavy hand was laid ion his shoulder. Looking up, the artist saw a stout fellow, who demanded his purse. It was useless to attempt to resist and the store of the despairing daguerreotypist was carried off. On taking up his picture preparatory to leave the unlucky spot, he saw a small human face, daguerreotyped in the act of peeping through the foliage. A magnifying glass brought out the unmistakable features of the thief who had robbed him. The case was a plain one; “the shadow catcher” was soon packed up, and its owner showing the likeness to the police of the neighboring town; they knew the thief, arrested him and found the money upon him, which was most joyfully received by the daguerreotypist.
1858 June 26. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) June 26, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 85, P. 2.
A New Book.—The Louisville Courier of Tuesday says: “Dr. Carr paid us a visit last evening in company with our friend Archer, of the Southerner. The Doc. Is the eminent artist who is taking photographic views of the towns and places of interest along the banks of the Ohio and Mississippi, with a view of an illustrated sketch book of travel.
1858 June 27. Memphis Daily Eagle nd Enquirer. (Memphis, Tennessee.) June 27, 1858, Vol. XXIV, No. 78, P. 3.
Thanks.—To our friend J. B. Archer, of the Southerner, for a fine Photograph of the Southerner taken by Dr. Carr, of this city.
1858 June 28. Memphis Daily Avalanche. (Memphis, Tennessee.) June 28, 1858, Vol. 1, No. 145, P. 4.
Dr. Carr—The Daguerreotypist, Dr. Y. A. Carr, takes passage this evening on the steamer Daniel Boone for the South, whither he is going for the purpose of taking views of the inundated country below.
1858 August 28. Southern Shield. (Helena, Arkansas.) August 28, 1858, Vol. XIX, No. 15, P. 3.
Gallery of Fine Arts Carr and Royster, Artists. No. 3 Front Row, Memphis. As to extent of views and perfection of Artistic skill, this establishment stands at the head of Southern enterprise. Visitors to the city are respectfully solicited to call and see the character of our work. Feb. 6. Carr & Royster.
Advertisement ran from August 28 to October 9, 1858.
1858 October 24. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) October 24, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 188, P. 3.
Pictures taken at Carr’s old and reliable Picture Gallery, No. 30 Front Row, as good and as cheap as at any establishment in Memphis.
1858 October 27. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) October 27, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 190, P. 3.
Dr. Carr’s Gallery, No. 30 Front Row, has no rival in America, and takes pictures as good and cheap as any in Memphis. All boatmen, from the Captain of the Simonds to the third cook on the ferry boat, agents.
1858 October 28. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) October 28, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 191, P. 3.
Dr. Carr’s Gallery, No. 30, Front Row, authorizes Gov. Harris, Secretary Ray, Judge Wright, the Clergy and the man in the moon, to act as his agents in their especial latitudes. Work good and cheap as any in the city.
1858 November 5. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) November 5, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 198, P. 3.
Carr’s Gallery, No. 30 Front Row, is all right on the cheap goose.
Advertisement ran from November 5 to 7, 1858.
1858 November 10. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) November 10, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 202, P. 3.
Dr. Carr’s gallery asks why all the “best and cheapest galleries” in Memphis is like the most wind-shaken leaves of the South? Answer, because they are as(s)pens.
Good Days Work.—Carr’s gallery took 350 pictures yesterday, while the fool-killer was slaying all the “best and cheapest” fools on Main street.
1858 November 13. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) November 13, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 205, P. 3.
Dr. Carr’s Gallery takes good and cheap pictures.
Advertisement ran from November 13 to 19, 1858.
1858 November 21. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) November 21, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 212, P. 3.
A Capital Plan.—We learn that the Police of this city have, in obedience to instructions, made an arrangement with our friend Dr. Carr, the artist, on the corner of Madison street and Front Row, to take the pictures of all the thieves hereafter apprehended here, to be, placed in a large rogues’ frame, to be hung up in the Station House, by which the may be known and detected here and elsewhere. We believe by the adoption of this plan we shall add an additional terror to all floating thieves, who would thus object to appear in such a classification. These pictures can be seen and exchanged by such persons, and between such cities as will easily lead to the detection of such pests to the country as those who stand thus recorded here and in other larger cities where the same plan has been adopted.
We understand the thieves, when thus detected, who refuse to set for their pictures will have a placard “Public Thief” pinned to their backs, and walked through the public streets as such. Thieves, stand from under.
1858 December 9. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) December 9, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 227, P. 3.
Dr. Carr, No. 30 Front Row, furnishes in person as good and cheap pictures as any taken in the city.
Advertisement ran from December 9 to 17, 1858.
1858 December 25. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) December 25, 1858, Vol. IX, No. 241, P. 3.
Holiday Presents By The Million.—Dr. Carr, No. 30 Front Row, takes pictures from 25 cents to $200 dollars.
1858 December 25. Memphis Daily Avalanche. (Memphis, Tennessee.) December 25, 1858, Vol. II, No. 142, Whole No. 287, P. 3.
Down On All Bed Bugs.—Doodlebugs, Bed-bugs, other bugs, and bus-eaters. Dr. Carr, at his gallery No. 30 Front Row, takes superior pictures, at prices ranging from 25 cents to $200. Ease her down!
1859 March 1. Memphis Daily Appeal. (Memphis, Tennessee.) March 1, 1859, Vol. X, No. 49, P. 3.
River News. The river was rising more rapidly yesterday, and was within some two feet six inches of high water mark. The weather was fair and the mud less troublesome.
The neat steamboat Oakland, Capt. L. Barnes, leaves this evening for White river, taking the trip of the Admiral, which is detained. Passengers will be pleased with the Oakland, and not only so, but they will be delighted with her clerk, for our friend, and the favorite of every lady in Memphis and neighborhood, Dr. Carr, the celebrated and talented traveling daguerreotypist, has the control of the office. We need say nothing of the standard qualities of Dr. Carr, of his ability, and of his general qualifications; the uniform respect entertained for him proclaims his excellencies. We congratulate the proprietors of the Oakland, on having secured the assistance of so well known a favorite and so agreeable a gentleman.
Information from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99342156/young-allen-carr
Young Allen Carr.
Birth: 31 August 1819, Green County, Alabama.
Death: 18 December 1882 (Aged 63), Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee.
Dr. Young Allen Carr was a physician, Daguerreian/photographer, journalist, Spiritualist, and the author of “A Philosophical History of the Origin and Development of Vegetable and Animal Life, and of the Human Mind, with an Explanation of the Mode of the Mind’s Connection with the Spirit World, By a Spirit of the Wisdom Sphere, Through Y.A. Carr, M.D., Medium” (published in Memphis, 1857). Copyright 1857 by Erasmus T. Rose, nephew of President James Madison.
Born in Greene County, Alabama, he was a son of John Carr and Susannah Melton; grandson of Samuel Carr (1770-c1850) and Agnes McAdoo Carr, Thomas Gary Melton and Elizabeth Allen Melton. He descended from several First Families of Virginia, including the Royalls, Perrins, Walkers, Allens, among others, and Cecily Bailey Jordan Farrar.
Young Carr married 4 Oct 1847 Minerva Whitby, daughter of Richeson Whitby who had helped his sister-in-law Fanny Wright operate the Nashoba Commune near Memphis in the 1820s-30s. (See Mystery and Possibility: Spiritualists in the Nineteenth-Century South (2010) by Nancy Gray Schoonmaker, p. 214.)
Marriage Book 1, p. 17:
Carr, Y.A. Carr to M. Whitby, marriage solemnized Oct. 4th, 1847, by L.D. Mullens. D. Bryant, security. (Index incorrectly says Z.A. Carr to Minerva Whitly,)
Young Allen Carr was professor of chemistry in the Memphis Medical College (ref., Supramundane Facts in the Life of Rev. Jesse Babcock Ferguson (1865), edited by Thomas Low Nichols, p. 144.)
Faculty of the Botanico Medical College of Memphis, Tenn. (1857). Botanico-Medical College of Memphis (1846-1861) name changed in 1859 to Eclectic Medical Institute of Memphis.
In the 1850 Census, Dr. Carr was listed in Memphis living with wife Minerva and daughter Frances (age 1) in the household of his in-laws, Richeson and Perminta Whitby. Richeson Whitby, sometimes written Richerson and Richardson Whitby, died Feb. 19, 1853. He was one of the trustees of the Nashoba Commune, a utopian community dedicated to preparing slaves for emancipation. It was established in 1825 by Frances (“Fanny”) Wright on 1,940 acres northeast of Memphis and taught industrial skills and advocated gradual emancipation. Nashoba Park at Germantown is located on part of the original Nashoba Plantation. IN TIMES PAST, by Andy Pouncy: “Two men who played an important role in the experiment were Richeson Whitby, a shy Quaker from New Harmony; and a Scotsman by the name of James Richardson, who lived in Memphis and had strong convictions of moral freedom.”
Although ultimately a failure, the Nashoba Commune excited international interest and praise from many intellectual circles.
Richeson/Richardson Whitby married Fanny Wright’s sister, Camilla, 15 December 1827 in Shelby County, Tennessee. Camilla Wright Whitby died 8 February 1831 after giving birth to a daughter. The Wright sisters were natives of Scotland. Fanny Wright became a popular playwright and author of romantic verse and was a celebrity in America before she arrived here at age 22. A friend of Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein,” Fanny wrote a book about America entitled “Views of Society and Manners in America,” which was an international best-seller. In 1825 she published “A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States Without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South,” arguing for a gradual transformation from a slave economy to a free industrial society.
Richeson Whitby married his second wife, “Permentia” Barnhart, in Memphis on Sept. 1, 1831, six months after the death of Camilla Wright. Permenta Barnhart Whitby was the mother of Minerva Whitby who married Dr. Young Allen Carr. (There will be more information on these people in a forthcoming book to be published by Dr. Nancy Gray Schoonmaker.)
1849 Memphis City Directory by Twyman:
p. 13: Y.A. Carr not listed
p. 45: (businesses) Y.A. Carr not listed
Whitby: No listing
1850 Census, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee:
578/599 Richerson Whitby 56 m None 1000 S.C.
Perminta ” 35 f Tenn
Melvina ” 10 f “
Ellen ” 6 ” ” (m.21 Jan 1862 John D. Hibbitt; Marriage Book 2, p.134)
David ” 3 M ” (m. 1861 Laura A. Boon)
Rich. ” 1 (1 m written above) ” ” (Richardson Whitby)
Y.A. Carr 30 ” Daguerrean Ala.
Minerva ” 17 f Tenn
Frances ” 1 ” Miss.
1855-56 Memphis City Directory by Rainey
p.104:
CARR, Y.A. & Co., daguerreans 31 Front Row, (see adv.)
Carr, Y.A. daguerrean, 31 Front Row, r Pigeon Roost Road
An advertisement listed him over Merriman’s Jewelry Store, and noted his long experience in the business. He also offered materials and instruction.
History of Memphis, Tenn. (1888) by John M. Keeting, p.374: “Among the persons then (1855) in business whose names are familiar to the present generation were……Y.A. Carr, daguerrean artist.”
1859 Memphis City Directory by Tanner, p.60:
Carr Young A., daguerreotypist, 80 Front Row, h Pigeon Roost Road near M&C RR
p. 196: DAGUERREOTYPES, AMBROTYPES & PHOTOGRAPHS.
Carr Young A., daguerreotypist, 80 Front Row
1860 census: not found
1860 Memphis City Directory: Y.A. Carr was listed as an artist, no business address given.
1864-65 Memphis City Directory: business address was No. 412 Main Street.
1865-66 Memphis City Directory by Long, p.43:
Carr’s Gallery, 412 Main
Carr Mrs. M. (Minerva) res e Dunlap and Henry
(Y.A. Carr not listed)
1866 Memphis City Directory by Halpin p.96:
Carr, Y.A. Dr., Photographer, 412 Main
1866 Memphis City Census, p. 388: Mrs. M. Carr (45 and over female) at Old Market & Poplar
1868-69 Memphis City Directory by Edwards
p. 58: CARR Y. A. doctor, r ss Madison extended, opp. Orphan Asylum
p.179: Ramsey J.C., machinist M&C RR shop
Ramsey W.E., machinist M&C RR shop
Note: St. Peter’s Orphan Asylum is described on an internet website as having stood (1852-1980s) on the block bounded on the south by Madison Ave., north by Poplar St., east and west by Auburndale St. and McLean Blvd. respectively, but some of the present-day street names have changed. The 1865-82 Carr residence on Henry Ave. east of Dunlap is described in contemporary city directories as being across the street from St. Peter’s Asylum. This part of Henry Ave. was alternately called New Madison St. Extension or Madison St. Extended. Today all of Henry Ave. and all of Madison St. are Madison Avenue. St. Peter’s orphanage appears to have stood on what is now Madison Ave. near the current Regional Medical Center.
Memphis Daily Avalanche, March 28, 1866, p.3: “DR. J.R. NEWTON.—This gentleman, who is so widely known for his great healing power, has been induced by his friends, while passing through our city, to give tests of his remarkable skill, at Dr. Gilbert’s office, South Court street, over the Methodist Book Store, this morning, from 9 to 12 o’clock, without money and without price. Every afflicted soul is invited to come and be healed. (signed) Dr. S. Gilbert, J.E. Merriman, A.H. Merrill, Dr. G.W. Acree, Dr. E.T. Rose, Dr. A. Matson, Dr. Y.A. Carr, J.H. Melton, R. Fletcher, Wm. Sides.”
Memphis Daily Avalanche, Sept. 12, 1866, p.3:
“The Southern Life Insurance Company.
“We clip the following from the New Orleans TIMES of recent date: ‘We had the pleasure of a visit this morning from Mr. B.W. Smethurst, general agent of the Southern Life Insurance Company, holding its principal office in Memphis, Tennessee. The company is organized upon the stock and mutual principle, with a capital of $200,000, offering unusual advantages to the insured. Mr. Smethurst’s mission is to establish an office in New Orleans as general agent for the State of Louisiana. We trust his success will be commensurate with his personal merits and high standing of the Company which he represents.’
“So far as the above article alludes to the Southern Life Insurance Company, we endorse every word of it. A Memphis institution with the names of our first and most responsible citizens among its officers and directors, we look forward to the day when it will stand at the board of all our Insurance Companies. It has already, by the character of its stockholders’ equitable rates and prompt action in adjusting losses, brought itself pre-eminently and favorably forward as the first Company of our State. Its President, Mr. G.W. McCarn, has had an experience of many years in the business, and at the head of this Company will show our people that a prompt, accurate and reliable Life Insurance Company is inaugurated in the South, which, for responsibility, and standing, is second to none in the world. As an evidence of their intention to make this a Southern Company, we have only to say, that our old friend and contemporary, Dr. Y. A. Carr, formerly of the Bulletin, and latterly of the Appeal, has been appointed General Agent for the State of Alabama. A better appointment could not be made, and we congratulate them upon this acquisition to their strength. The doctor has been a worthy and prominent citizen of this city for more years than we can remember, and in removing to Mobile, where he intends making his headquarters, hereafter, we turn him over to the citizens of the great State of “Here We Rest” with our best wishes for his welfare and success in his new sphere.”
New Orleans TIMES, Oct. 9, 1866, p. 2: “We were yesterday favored with a call from Dr. Y.A. Carr, of Memphis, Tenn., who is on his way to Mobile, where he will establish a branch of the Memphis, Tenn., Southern Life Insurance Company, acting as agent for the State of Alabama. Accompanying Dr. Carr was Mr. R.M. Smethurst, the agent of the same company in this city. During his short stay here Mr. Smethurst has greatly extended a previously large acquaintance, and his excellent business qualities have won the esteem of the community. We commend Dr. Carr to the courtesies of our friends in his native State of Alabama.”
Memphis Daily Avalanche, June 10, 1868, p.3: “Our old friend, Dr. Y.A. Carr, who roamed on the bluffs in a savage state when Memphis as a boy, has returned, looking as fresh and rosy as though there had been no such a thing as a war. His face is a genial reminder of old times, and we are pleased to learn that he is in the enjoyment of excellent health.”
Memphis Daily Avalanche, Feb. 21, 1869, p.1:
SOUTHERN PRESS ASSOCIATION—First Day.
This Association met in Mobile, Wednesday, the President, Colonel A. R. Lamar, in the chair. The delegates were as follows: F.W. Dawson, Charleston Daily News; Colonel John T. Forsythe, T.C. DeLeon, Mobile Daily Register;… Y.A. Carr, Memphis Daily Sun….
Mobile Register, Nov. 12, 1869, p.3:
“Dr. Y. A. Carr, General Alabama Agent for the Southern Life Insurance Company of Memphis, Tenn.: Please find herewith the following card of thanks respecting the payment of a five thousand dollar Life Policy in your State.
Respectfully, Ben D. Lay.
Dr. Ben D. Lay, Actuary of the Southern Life Insurance Company, Memphis, Tenn.:
Dear Sir—Will you please accept my thanks and convey the same to the Company for the very prompt, ready and obliging manner in which you have met and anticipated in payment the amount, $5,000, even before it was due, which your Company insured upon the life of my late husband, James Ballard, of Sumter county, Ala., deceased, for the benefit of myself and children.
Yours, respectfully,
CLARISSA J. BALLARD,
Gainesville, Ala., Oct. 29, 1869.”
We certify that the claims of Mrs. Ballard, widow of James Ballard, deceased , and children herein referred to, were met promptly and in a manner altogether satisfactory to all parties.
BLISS & SNEDECOR, Attorneys.
October 29, 1869.”
“Alabama native Young Allen Carr, daguerrean, physician, journalist, and longtime Spiritualist, settled in Mobile to sell insurance. He wrote a column about Spiritualism in Mobile for Chicago’s Religio-Philosophical Journal, reporting that throughout the month of April 1870 a professional medium’s séances at the Campbell House had been well attended.” (Schoonmaker, Nancy Gray, Ph.d., “Seeking Solace From the Dead: The Spiritualists of Mobile,” ALABAMA HERITAGE MAGAZINE, Spring 2012, pp. 18-25; quote from p. 23.)
“Spiritualism in Mobile,” by Young A. Carr, Religio-Philosophical Journal, Aug. 24, 1872.
Memphis City directories of the 1870s show Minerva Whitby Carr residing on the east side of Henry Ave., 2 to 4 doors east of Dunlap, with her son-in-law Jones C. Ramsey. Sometimes in the 1870s Minerva was listed with her husband Dr. Y.A. Carr and once listed (incorrectly) as his widow. He was sometimes living in Mobile or at any rate away from Memphis.
1870 Mobile City Directory
Page 27: CARR Y. A. general agent Southern Life Insurance Company of Memphis, Tenn. Nw cor Commerce and Dauphin, bds Campbell House
p.235: Hotels. Campbell House, J.W. Campbell, proprietor ss Conti bet Royal and Water (see page 256)
Insurance Agents.
CARR Y.A. DR. n.w. cor. Dauphin and Commerce (see back of book)
P. 256: “CAMPBELL HOUSE.
J.W. CAMPBELL, Prop’r.
Is now open at that well-known locality, the old Mansion House, near the Theatre, on south side of Conti, between Royal and Water Streets, Mobile, Ala.
The House contains sixty-five well-ventilated rooms, and by its
location is conveniently near all places of business or amusement.
Guests will be supplied with the best the market affords, and
provided with every accommodation, on the most reasonable terms of
any House of its class in the city.
J.W. CAMPBELL, Proprietor.”
1870 Mobile, AL. census:
Ward 3, on 2 June 1870 (Campbell House Hotel)
3/3 Carr, Jas.(sic) A. 50 mw Life Ins. Agt. born in AL
1871 Mobile, AL. city Directory
p. 28: Campbell House, J.W. Campbell, Proprietor, 31 Conti
p. 30: Carr Y.A. general agent Southern Life Ins. Co. of Memphis, Tenn. For State of Ala. Nw cor Commerce and Dauphin, res se cor Wilkinson and Elmira
p. 257: INSURANCE AGENTS.
CARR Y.A., nw cor Commerce and Dauphin (see back bone)
1872 Mobile City Directory
p.32: Carr Young A. res se cor Elmira and Wilkinson
1872 Memphis City Directory by Edwards:
p. 118: Carr M.W. Mrs. R. Henry av. Nr. Dunlap
1872-73 Memphis City Directory by Boyle & Chapman
p. 71: Carr, Y.A., physician, r Henry av. Opp Asylum.
Memphis Daily Appeal 16 September 1873, p.1: This (Tuesday) morning at ten o’clock, from the residence of Dr. Y.A. Carr, opposite St. Peter’s…
Memphis Daily Appeal, 16 Sept 1873, p.1, column 4:
“CARR’S
PREMIUM GALLERY!
Having just returned from a business tour North
With all the facilities for taking fine, durable
Daguerrotypes, Ambrotypes, &c.,
I am now ready in person to serve my friends and the public generally in my line, on the most reasonable terms.
“I have no new fangled patents and clap-trap processes to offer the public. My establishment has to stand or fall amid all the blazonry of its neighbors, upon its own merits.”
1874 Memphis City Directory by Boyle & Chapman
p. 73: Carr, T.A. (sic), commercial editor, Register, r Madison extd, opp St. Peter’s Orphan Asylum.
p. 302: Ramsey, J.C., salesman, Wicks, Terry & Co., r Henry av.
1874 Memphis City Directory by Edwards:
p. 423: Ramsay, J.C. machinist, r. Henry av. Bet. Dunlap and Huppert’s av. W 8 m2 f2 t4
Carrs: Not listed (evidently with J.C. Ramsey)
1876 Memphis City Directory by Boyle & Chapman
p. 115: Carr Y.A., physician, bds ss Henry av, e of Dunlap
p. 334: Ramsey, J.C., machinist M.&C. R.R., r ss Henry av, e of Dunlap
1877 Memphis City Dir. By Sholes
p.390: Ramsey J.C., machinist M.&C. R.R.
Y.A. Carr: no listing
1878 Memphis City Directory by Sholes
Y.A. Carr: no listing
p. 380: Ramsey, John C. (sic), machinist M.&C. R.R., r ss Henry Ave. e of Dunlap
1879 Memphis City Directory by Sholes
p. 154: Carr Minerva W., wid (sic) Y.A., r ss Henry av., 4th e of Dunlap
p. 384: Ramsey John (sic) C., machinist M.&C. R.R., r ss Henry av, 4th e of Dunlap (same house)
1880 Memphis City Directory by Sholes
Carrs: no listing
p. 369: Ramsey Jones C., machinist M.&C. R.R., r ss Henry av, 2d e of Dunlap
1880 Census, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee:
Young A. Carr was listed twice. He was apparently visiting David (Davis) Whitby when the census taker arrived (listing him as brother-in-law, “doctor,” age 63), though he is also enumerated with wife Minerva Whitby at his own home in Memphis, listed there as “retired physician” with age given as 55.
121 Davis Whitby W M 33 M Farmer TN SC TN (David Whitby)
Laura A. Whitby Wife W F 27 M Keeping House TN NC AL
Melvin Whitby Son W M 3 S TN TN TN
Effie Whitby Dau W F 1 S TN TN TN
Perminta Whitby Mother W F 66 W TN TN VA (Perminta Barnhart Whitby, widow of Richardson)
Young A. Carr BroL W M 63 W Doctor AL – –
77/89 Young A. Carr W M 55 ret physician AL AL AL
Minerva W. Carr W F 47 wife TN SC TN
Fanny M. Ramsey 30 W F daughter MS AL TN
John C. Ramsey 36 W M son-in-law, machinist on R.R. GA GA GA (Jones C. Ramsey)
Ross Ramsey 10 “nephew” (sic) at school TN GA MS (He was Dr. Carr’s grandson, not nephew, and his father was born in N.C., not GA.)
(All in the same household)
1881 Memphis City Directory by Sholes
p. 197: Carr Young A., Physician, r ss Henry av, 3d e of Dunlap
p. 438: Ramsey Jones C., Foreman M. & T. R.R., r es Henry av, 2d e of Dunlap (probably same house)
1882 Memphis City Directory by Sholes
p. 224: Carr Young A., Physician, r ss Henry av, 3d e of Dunlap
p. 491: Ramsey Jones C., Foreman M.&T. R.R., r 504 Rayburn av
Comparing the 1880 census to the 1880 city directory, Margaret Doyle, widow, lived on ss Henry Av., corner of Dunlap, followed by two separate households headed by Frank May and Henry Boyd, both black, then the Ramsey/Carr household which would be technically the fourth house from the corner when counting both May and Boyd homes which may have been off the street. So depending on how they are counted, the Ramsey/Carr house was probably the second large home from the corner, as it is described in many of the directories, or the third or fourth as it is also described, but they probably were in the same house from before 1865 through 1882.
Register of Deaths, City of Memphis, p. 273:
33653 Dec. 18, 1882: Y.A. Carr, age 63, male white, widowed citizen, Nativity: Virginia (sic), residence: 35 years, cause of death: consumption, physician in attendance: Dr. Kimbro, sexton: Thorns, street: Poplar, ward 8.
Elmwood Daily Burial Record, p.87:
1882, p. 12:
Dec. 19 Y.A. Carr, death due to (not stated) age 63, lot 120, grave 14 (division H), Section Fowler.
This plot is occupied by members of the Odd Fellows lodge. Mrs. Carr appears to be buried in another part of Elmwood Cemetery. She and her daughter Mrs. Ramsey died the same year but are not known to be buried together.
[1] Memphis City Directory, 1855-1856.
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