Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1893 — DEATH OF BRUCE CARR, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF BRUCE CARR,

The Well Known Politician and Business Man. End of * Useful nod Honorable CareerBrief Sketch of lIU Life. Hon. Bruce Carr, ex-Andltor of Indiana. died at IfitfTanapolis, Tuesday morning. His illness began Jan. 24, on his return from a business trip to Chigago. Catarrhal fever, followed by erysipelas, finally culminating in meningetis In the most acute

form, was the cause of death. On Saturday previous to his death he became unconscious, and continued in that condition until the end. Mr. Carr would have been 44 years old in May. He was a native of Onffige county, Ind., and came of a race of soldiers, one of his grand-fathers having served with distinction In the war of 1812 and with Harrison at Tippecanoe. The grandson was but fifteen years old when he enlisted in the Sixty-sixth Indiana Volunteers, and served throughout the war of the Rebellion. For several years after the war he engaged in teaching school, having acquired an education at the State University, where he was a student for three years. He was connected with the public schools of New Albany, Gosport. Martinsville and Bedford. At Bedford he was for two years teacher of Latin in the Christian Church College, since defunct. From the school room ho drifted into the service of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., publishers of school books, ana eventually became their agent for Indiana. In 1884 lie received from the Republican party the nomination for State Auditor. He was defeated, but two years later was again nominated and elected. He was reelected in 1888 and retired from active politics in 1890, having served with honor to himself and the State. The deceased was prominently connected with various civic organizations and was a thirty-third degree Mason. He was a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 393, F. and A. Ms; also of Raper Commadery, No. 1, K. T., and also of the Scottish Rite. His first degree in Masonry was taken in Soltillo Lodge, No. 138, in Washington county, in 1870. and he did not clase in the work until the thirtythird degree had been administered. In 1882 he was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, continuing in office until 1884. He was also an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias.

HON. BRUCE CARR.