J. M. Carson
Hon. J. M. Carson was born in Jackson Township, this county, June 7, 1846, and continued in that township engaged in farming until 1863. In July, 1863, he enlisted in Co. G, 9th O. Cav., and followed Sherman in his march to the sea, receiving his discharge in August, 1865. After the war be educated himself and taught school a portion of the succeeding eight years. In 1876 he became a member of the Lower House of the General Assembly, where, after serving two years, he was elected to the State Senate for the same period. In 1879 he accepted a clerkship in the Navy Department, and so remained in Washington, D. C., until April, 1881,when he came to Anna and took charge of a warehouse. In 1862, he was elected Mayor of the town of Anna, and Justice of the Peace. He is now here, engaged in the grain, salt, lime, coal, flour and seeds trade, doing a general warehouse business. His father was a native of Ohio, and died in 1852. His mother, a daughter of Benjamin Wallingsford, belonged to the pioneers of Jackson Township, and died here in 1850. Mr. Carson married Bessie E. Staley January 1, 1872. They have three children, named Millard Everett, Oliver Paine, and Victor Vance.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883