John Carey (congressman)

John Carey (April 5, 1792 – March 17, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

John Carey
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 9th district
In office March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861
Preceded by	Lawrence W. Hall
Succeeded by	Warren P. Noble
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the Marion & Crawford county district
In office December 1, 1828 – December 6, 1829
Preceded by	new district
Succeeded by	Robert Hopkins
In office December 5, 1836 – December 3, 1837 Serving with Otway Curry
Preceded by	James H. Godman
Succeeded by	Otway Curry Stephen Fowler
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the Delaware & Crawford county district
In office December 4, 1843 – December 1, 1844 Serving with William Smart
Preceded by	George W. Sharp I. E. James
Succeeded by	James B. Shaw
Personal details
Born	April 5, 1792 Monongalia County, Virginia
Died	March 17, 1875 (aged 82) Carey, Ohio
Resting place	Spring Grove Cemetery, Carey, Ohio
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Dorcas Wilcox
Children	six

Biography

Born in Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia), Carey moved with his parents to the Northwest Territory in 1798. He served under General William Hull in the War of 1812. He served as associate judge 1825–1832. He was appointed Indian agent at the Wyandotte Reservation in 1829. He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1828, 1836, and 1843. Presidential elector in 1840 for Harrison/Tyler.[1] Promoter and first president of the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, from Sandusky to Dayton, about 1845. He is the namesake of the town of Carey, Ohio.[2]

Carey was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861). He died in Carey, Ohio, March 17, 1875. He was interred in the family burial ground on the home farm. He was reinterred in 1919 in Spring Grove Cemetery, Carey, Ohio.

Family

John Carey was the second son and third child of Stephen Brown Carey and Sarah Mitten Carey.[3] He married Dorcas Wilcox (1790-1867), of Worthington, Ohio, on January 9, 1817.[4] She was a native of Connecticut.[5] They had six children named Napoleon Bonaparte Carey (1818-1846), MacDonnough Monroe Carey (1820-1895), Emma Marie Carey (1822-1842), Eliza Anne Carey Kinney (1824-1904), Cinderella Carey Brown (1826-1892), and Dorcas Carey Dow (1830-1909).[6]

Notes

1. Taylor 1899 : 193
2. Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 23.
3. Kinney Grimes 2010 : 2
4. Kinney Grimes 2010 : 109
5. Kinney Grimes 2010 : 30
6. Kinney Grimes 2010 : 110-115

References

• United States Congress. "John Carey (id: C000144)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... 1. State of Ohio. p. 193.
• Kinney, Muriel; Kinney Grimes, Carol (2010). The Biography of John Carey: An Ohio Pioneer. Outskirts Press. ISBN 978-1-4327-5828-8.
• John Carey at Find a Grave

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.