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Surnames: O'Neil, McLaughlin, McHugh, Byrne, Powers, Clay, Howe, McSpaden, Mortimer
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin, publ. 1901 - page 214
TERRENCE CARRIER is a very popular and successful hardware merchant in the city of Boscobel, and has filled the office of sheriff of Grant county with marked ability. He became a resident of the county in 1855, at which date he located in Muscoda, and engaged in farming. In 1858 he moved to Boscobel, and resumed his trade of wagon maker, which he followed for some years. Failing health obliged him to seek a change of occupation, and he became a hotel man, being landlord of the leading hotel in the city for some ten years. In 1872 Mr. CARRIER was elected sheriff of Grant county, and served his term of office with general satisfaction, as the results of the manner in which he conducted its business. In 1874 he returned to Boscobel, and entered into the hardware business, in which he is still engaged.
Terrence CARRIER was born in Cambridge, Vt., Dec. 5, 1827, a son of Patrick and Bridget (O'NEIL) CARRIER, both natives of County Monaghan, Ireland. The parents were reared and married in their native county, and came to the United States in 1826, settling in Vermont. Patrick CARRIER was a linen weaver in Ireland, but became a farmer in this country. In 1837 they moved West, to the town of Tallmadge, Summit Co., Ohio, and in the spring of 1849 came to Wisconsin, settling on a farm at Watertown, where the remainder of their days were spent. He died at the age of eighty-three, and she when seventy-five. They had a family of seven children of whom Alice, the eldest, married Michael Reynolds, and lives in Vermont. Terrence lives in Boscobel. Mary died at the age of seventeen. Nancy married John McLAUGHLIN, and lives at Watertown, Wis. Amelia has been twice married, her first husband being Francis McHUGH, and her second Luke BYRNE, of Watertown, Wis. James resides in Grant county. John lives in California.
Terrence CARRIER removed with his parents to Ohio, and in 1848 made a journey of exploration into Wisconsin. Being thoroughly satisfied with the outlook, he carried back such a report to Ohio that the following year the entire family came West. In 1852 he was married to Miss Amelia POWERS, who was born at Gardner, Maine, a daughter of James and Julia (CLAY) POWERS, and at the time of her marriage was residing in Janesville, Wis. To this union three children were born, Mary being the eldest; she married William E. HOWE, Martha Jane married Michael McSPADEN, of Boscobel. Alice is the widow of Fred MORTIMER, and has her home in Boscobel. Mr. CARRIER is a Republican, and was formerly a Whig. He has held various local and county offices, has served on the county board, and has acted as president of the village, and has been generally regarded as a man of more than usual ability and character. Mr. CARRIER owns a fine farm of 450 acres near Boscobel, and also owns the business in which he is engaged.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck