Biography of Erasmus Theodore Carr



Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



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ERASMUS THEODORE CARR was born at Greenville, Saratoga county, New York, October 28, 1825. He is the son of Almond Carr, 

whose mother was a King, an Runt of the distinguished New York statesman, Rufus King. Almond Carr married Arathusia Maria 

Morse, a lady of Scotch and English parentage. E. T. Carr became a bricklayer and a mason, with a decided taste for 

architecture and mechanics. In 1852 he removed to Syracuse. where be carried on the business of a builder for three years. 

After this he located at St. Paul, Minn., where be remained only one season, when he was offered the superintendency of 

certain work at Fort Leavenworth. In the fall of 1855 he came to Fort Leavenworth, and at once commenced the erection of 

buildings. He opened an office as architect in Leavenworth, but in 1859 resumed work for the government. In 1863 he was 

selected as architect for the Kansas State Penitentiary. He drew plans for the State Normal at Emporisa and was 

instrumental in the improvements at the Agricultural College at Manhattan. He built many courthouses, churches, 

schoolhouses and jails in Kansas. He superintended the construction of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Topeka. 

December 8, 1859, he married Miss Margaret Redfern Cubbins. He served his home town of Leavenworth many years in the city 

council and as a member of the school board. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason and has been very prominent and useful in 

the Masonic order. He is still actively engaged in business at Miles City. Mont.



(Included with the article "Reminiscences Concerning Fort Leavenworth In 1855-'56", page 375)