Friday, April, 19, 1907, Morning Star, (Rockford, IL) Page 5
Long Residence in One Home
Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Carrico Have Record of Many Years
The noticeable activity at the city quarry, with its many workmen and noisy apparatus, recalls to old citizens a time when the land in the vicinity of the now noisy quarries was a barren tract, too stony for successful farming or pasture land.
In this tract, which stretches from Avon street to Rockton avenue, and from School street to Auburn, were opened two of the most valuable stone quarries in this section. Both are more valuable at the present time than ever before.
One is owned by Hart & Page. This was the first to be opened and was the old Kilburn quarry, started by the late Benjamin Kilburn more than fifty years ago.
About the time the quarry was first opened T.W. Carrico married Mr. Kilburn's daughter and entered into the work of developing the quarry with his father-in-law. Mr. Carrico eventually became owner of the valuable tract and soon opened another quarry to the east of the first. He has been more than successful in the stone business and his son, a graduate of Wisconsin university, now has charge of the workings known as the Carrico and city quarry. One acre of this ground was sold to the city for more than the cost of the original tract composed of 160 acres.
T.W. Carrico, now retired, is one of Rockford's oldest and most respected citizens, having lived in the same place for nearly fifty years on Kilburn avenue, once known as the Trask bridge road. The house now occupied by Mr. Carrico and his wife is thirty-eight years old and was built on the foundation where one of Rockford's pioneer houses formerly stood. The house now stands in Rockton avenue and is still a strong building, all of the timbers being of oak and walnut brought from the Pecatonica bottoms.
Although Mr. Carrico is advanced in years he is in good health and takes a keen interest in passing affairs.
Wednesday, September 23, 1908 Daily Register-Gazette (Rockford, IL)
Death Takes T.W. Carrico
Head of Carrico Stone Company Expires After Brief Illness
Funeral on Thursday
Rockford Lose Good Citizen In His Passing—Active for Years in the Business World
Thomas W. Carrico, described by one who had known him over fifty years as "one of the gentlest, kindest and most wholesome of men," died Tuesday night at his home, 1109 Kilburn avenue. For several years the old citizen had been in ill health, but it was not until a week ago he found himself unable to leave his room. The weakness of age and a complication of heart trouble was the cause of his death.
Funeral services will be held at the residence at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Rev Thornton Anthony Mills will conduct them. Mr. Carrico was a member of the Church of the Christian Union.
The pallbearers will be Dr. Bryant Kerr, W.C. Butterworth, Fay Lewis, Dr. M.R. Harned, H.C. Porter, S.F. Needham.
Announcement of the passing of Mr. Carrico has been received with sorrow in many Rockford homes. He was one of the men whose lives linked the busy city of today with the infant village of the early fifties. He was in touch with the city's commercial growth and a factor in its development into a larger business importance. He was an employer of labor for scores of years and perhaps the best-liked man in the city in this respect.
A man who had worked for him for years heard of his death as he was playing a game of billiards.
"I can't play anymore tonight if Tom Carrico is dead." Said this man, and he put up his cue.
The little incident indicated the love and respect Mr. Carrico's employees bore for him. It has been said it was more of a relation of comradeship than employer and employee, for although a man of firmness. It is told of him that he never spoke crossly to one of his men. In his business affairs as in his family life he was even-tempered, exerting a good influence to a degree not easily estimated, but which was instantly appreciated by every person who knew him in any walk of life.
Mr. and Mrs. Carrico celebrated their golden anniversary November 10 of last year. A beautiful friendship existed between them and Mr. and Mrs. Hiram H. Waldo all those years. Mrs. Waldo, whose death occurred a few months ago, was the bridesmaid, and Mr. Waldo the best man, at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Carrico, and a short time afterward the latter were attendants at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo. On the anniversary day last November Mr. and Mrs. Waldo were guests at the Carrico home, where both weddings had taken place. Before they separated for the day the old friends stood in the same places they had occupied when the nuptial ceremonies were performed, first Mr. and Mrs. Carrico, as their wedding table had been arranged, and then Mr. and Mrs. Waldo. It was a charming incident of the quiet observance of the golden wedding.
He had lived here since 1854 and was 78 years old. He was born in June, 1830. Among the stone quarries opened by the Carrico Stone Company was what is now known as the Hart & Page quarry.
The deceased was a member of the Church of the Christian Union.
Mr. Carrico was a native of Beverly, Mass., and when he came here he was accompanied by an uncle, the Rev. W.F. Parish, who was the pastor of the old First Baptist Church. His marriage to Miss Mary L. Kilburn was solemnized at the Kilburn home in Kilburn avenue. Nov 10, 1857, Rev Parish of Connecticut performed the ceremony. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Carrico located on a quarter section of government land northwest of the city. At that time, the tract was considered in the country but not so now, the growth of the city having been great since that time. Mr. Carrico early engaged in the stone and sand business and material from his quarry and sand pit have entered in the construction of hundreds of Rockford's finest homes and business blocks. Although nearly four score years of age, Mr. Carrico still retains an active interest in the business of the Carrico Stone company, now in charge of his son, Fred W. Carrico.
Mr. Carrico is survived by his wife and one son, Fred Carrico of Ashland avenue. Misses Mary and Margaret Saltar, granddaughters, have made their home with their grandparents since childhood. William Miller Carrico is the only grandson.
Long Residence in One Home
Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Carrico Have Record of Many Years
The noticeable activity at the city quarry, with its many workmen and noisy apparatus, recalls to old citizens a time when the land in the vicinity of the now noisy quarries was a barren tract, too stony for successful farming or pasture land.
In this tract, which stretches from Avon street to Rockton avenue, and from School street to Auburn, were opened two of the most valuable stone quarries in this section. Both are more valuable at the present time than ever before.
One is owned by Hart & Page. This was the first to be opened and was the old Kilburn quarry, started by the late Benjamin Kilburn more than fifty years ago.
About the time the quarry was first opened T.W. Carrico married Mr. Kilburn's daughter and entered into the work of developing the quarry with his father-in-law. Mr. Carrico eventually became owner of the valuable tract and soon opened another quarry to the east of the first. He has been more than successful in the stone business and his son, a graduate of Wisconsin university, now has charge of the workings known as the Carrico and city quarry. One acre of this ground was sold to the city for more than the cost of the original tract composed of 160 acres.
T.W. Carrico, now retired, is one of Rockford's oldest and most respected citizens, having lived in the same place for nearly fifty years on Kilburn avenue, once known as the Trask bridge road. The house now occupied by Mr. Carrico and his wife is thirty-eight years old and was built on the foundation where one of Rockford's pioneer houses formerly stood. The house now stands in Rockton avenue and is still a strong building, all of the timbers being of oak and walnut brought from the Pecatonica bottoms.
Although Mr. Carrico is advanced in years he is in good health and takes a keen interest in passing affairs.
Wednesday, September 23, 1908 Daily Register-Gazette (Rockford, IL)
Death Takes T.W. Carrico
Head of Carrico Stone Company Expires After Brief Illness
Funeral on Thursday
Rockford Lose Good Citizen In His Passing—Active for Years in the Business World
Thomas W. Carrico, described by one who had known him over fifty years as "one of the gentlest, kindest and most wholesome of men," died Tuesday night at his home, 1109 Kilburn avenue. For several years the old citizen had been in ill health, but it was not until a week ago he found himself unable to leave his room. The weakness of age and a complication of heart trouble was the cause of his death.
Funeral services will be held at the residence at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Rev Thornton Anthony Mills will conduct them. Mr. Carrico was a member of the Church of the Christian Union.
The pallbearers will be Dr. Bryant Kerr, W.C. Butterworth, Fay Lewis, Dr. M.R. Harned, H.C. Porter, S.F. Needham.
Announcement of the passing of Mr. Carrico has been received with sorrow in many Rockford homes. He was one of the men whose lives linked the busy city of today with the infant village of the early fifties. He was in touch with the city's commercial growth and a factor in its development into a larger business importance. He was an employer of labor for scores of years and perhaps the best-liked man in the city in this respect.
A man who had worked for him for years heard of his death as he was playing a game of billiards.
"I can't play anymore tonight if Tom Carrico is dead." Said this man, and he put up his cue.
The little incident indicated the love and respect Mr. Carrico's employees bore for him. It has been said it was more of a relation of comradeship than employer and employee, for although a man of firmness. It is told of him that he never spoke crossly to one of his men. In his business affairs as in his family life he was even-tempered, exerting a good influence to a degree not easily estimated, but which was instantly appreciated by every person who knew him in any walk of life.
Mr. and Mrs. Carrico celebrated their golden anniversary November 10 of last year. A beautiful friendship existed between them and Mr. and Mrs. Hiram H. Waldo all those years. Mrs. Waldo, whose death occurred a few months ago, was the bridesmaid, and Mr. Waldo the best man, at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Carrico, and a short time afterward the latter were attendants at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo. On the anniversary day last November Mr. and Mrs. Waldo were guests at the Carrico home, where both weddings had taken place. Before they separated for the day the old friends stood in the same places they had occupied when the nuptial ceremonies were performed, first Mr. and Mrs. Carrico, as their wedding table had been arranged, and then Mr. and Mrs. Waldo. It was a charming incident of the quiet observance of the golden wedding.
He had lived here since 1854 and was 78 years old. He was born in June, 1830. Among the stone quarries opened by the Carrico Stone Company was what is now known as the Hart & Page quarry.
The deceased was a member of the Church of the Christian Union.
Mr. Carrico was a native of Beverly, Mass., and when he came here he was accompanied by an uncle, the Rev. W.F. Parish, who was the pastor of the old First Baptist Church. His marriage to Miss Mary L. Kilburn was solemnized at the Kilburn home in Kilburn avenue. Nov 10, 1857, Rev Parish of Connecticut performed the ceremony. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Carrico located on a quarter section of government land northwest of the city. At that time, the tract was considered in the country but not so now, the growth of the city having been great since that time. Mr. Carrico early engaged in the stone and sand business and material from his quarry and sand pit have entered in the construction of hundreds of Rockford's finest homes and business blocks. Although nearly four score years of age, Mr. Carrico still retains an active interest in the business of the Carrico Stone company, now in charge of his son, Fred W. Carrico.
Mr. Carrico is survived by his wife and one son, Fred Carrico of Ashland avenue. Misses Mary and Margaret Saltar, granddaughters, have made their home with their grandparents since childhood. William Miller Carrico is the only grandson.
Friday, April, 19, 1907, Morning Star, (Rockford, IL) Page 5
Long Residence in One Home
Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Carrico Have Record of Many Years
The noticeable activity at the city quarry, with its many workmen and noisy apparatus, recalls to old citizens a time when the land in the vicinity of the now noisy quarries was a barren tract, too stony for successful farming or pasture land.
In this tract, which stretches from Avon street to Rockton avenue, and from School street to Auburn, were opened two of the most valuable stone quarries in this section. Both are more valuable at the present time than ever before.
One is owned by Hart & Page. This was the first to be opened and was the old Kilburn quarry, started by the late Benjamin Kilburn more than fifty years ago.
About the time the quarry was first opened T.W. Carrico married Mr. Kilburn's daughter and entered into the work of developing the quarry with his father-in-law. Mr. Carrico eventually became owner of the valuable tract and soon opened another quarry to the east of the first. He has been more than successful in the stone business and his son, a graduate of Wisconsin university, now has charge of the workings known as the Carrico and city quarry. One acre of this ground was sold to the city for more than the cost of the original tract composed of 160 acres.
T.W. Carrico, now retired, is one of Rockford's oldest and most respected citizens, having lived in the same place for nearly fifty years on Kilburn avenue, once known as the Trask bridge road. The house now occupied by Mr. Carrico and his wife is thirty-eight years old and was built on the foundation where one of Rockford's pioneer houses formerly stood. The house now stands in Rockton avenue and is still a strong building, all of the timbers being of oak and walnut brought from the Pecatonica bottoms.
Although Mr. Carrico is advanced in years he is in good health and takes a keen interest in passing affairs.
Wednesday, September 23, 1908 Daily Register-Gazette (Rockford, IL)
Death Takes T.W. Carrico
Head of Carrico Stone Company Expires After Brief Illness
Funeral on Thursday
Rockford Lose Good Citizen In His Passing—Active for Years in the Business World
Thomas W. Carrico, described by one who had known him over fifty years as "one of the gentlest, kindest and most wholesome of men," died Tuesday night at his home, 1109 Kilburn avenue. For several years the old citizen had been in ill health, but it was not until a week ago he found himself unable to leave his room. The weakness of age and a complication of heart trouble was the cause of his death.
Funeral services will be held at the residence at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Rev Thornton Anthony Mills will conduct them. Mr. Carrico was a member of the Church of the Christian Union.
The pallbearers will be Dr. Bryant Kerr, W.C. Butterworth, Fay Lewis, Dr. M.R. Harned, H.C. Porter, S.F. Needham.
Announcement of the passing of Mr. Carrico has been received with sorrow in many Rockford homes. He was one of the men whose lives linked the busy city of today with the infant village of the early fifties. He was in touch with the city's commercial growth and a factor in its development into a larger business importance. He was an employer of labor for scores of years and perhaps the best-liked man in the city in this respect.
A man who had worked for him for years heard of his death as he was playing a game of billiards.
"I can't play anymore tonight if Tom Carrico is dead." Said this man, and he put up his cue.
The little incident indicated the love and respect Mr. Carrico's employees bore for him. It has been said it was more of a relation of comradeship than employer and employee, for although a man of firmness. It is told of him that he never spoke crossly to one of his men. In his business affairs as in his family life he was even-tempered, exerting a good influence to a degree not easily estimated, but which was instantly appreciated by every person who knew him in any walk of life.
Mr. and Mrs. Carrico celebrated their golden anniversary November 10 of last year. A beautiful friendship existed between them and Mr. and Mrs. Hiram H. Waldo all those years. Mrs. Waldo, whose death occurred a few months ago, was the bridesmaid, and Mr. Waldo the best man, at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Carrico, and a short time afterward the latter were attendants at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo. On the anniversary day last November Mr. and Mrs. Waldo were guests at the Carrico home, where both weddings had taken place. Before they separated for the day the old friends stood in the same places they had occupied when the nuptial ceremonies were performed, first Mr. and Mrs. Carrico, as their wedding table had been arranged, and then Mr. and Mrs. Waldo. It was a charming incident of the quiet observance of the golden wedding.
He had lived here since 1854 and was 78 years old. He was born in June, 1830. Among the stone quarries opened by the Carrico Stone Company was what is now known as the Hart & Page quarry.
The deceased was a member of the Church of the Christian Union.
Mr. Carrico was a native of Beverly, Mass., and when he came here he was accompanied by an uncle, the Rev. W.F. Parish, who was the pastor of the old First Baptist Church. His marriage to Miss Mary L. Kilburn was solemnized at the Kilburn home in Kilburn avenue. Nov 10, 1857, Rev Parish of Connecticut performed the ceremony. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Carrico located on a quarter section of government land northwest of the city. At that time, the tract was considered in the country but not so now, the growth of the city having been great since that time. Mr. Carrico early engaged in the stone and sand business and material from his quarry and sand pit have entered in the construction of hundreds of Rockford's finest homes and business blocks. Although nearly four score years of age, Mr. Carrico still retains an active interest in the business of the Carrico Stone company, now in charge of his son, Fred W. Carrico.
Mr. Carrico is survived by his wife and one son, Fred Carrico of Ashland avenue. Misses Mary and Margaret Saltar, granddaughters, have made their home with their grandparents since childhood. William Miller Carrico is the only grandson.
Long Residence in One Home
Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Carrico Have Record of Many Years
The noticeable activity at the city quarry, with its many workmen and noisy apparatus, recalls to old citizens a time when the land in the vicinity of the now noisy quarries was a barren tract, too stony for successful farming or pasture land.
In this tract, which stretches from Avon street to Rockton avenue, and from School street to Auburn, were opened two of the most valuable stone quarries in this section. Both are more valuable at the present time than ever before.
One is owned by Hart & Page. This was the first to be opened and was the old Kilburn quarry, started by the late Benjamin Kilburn more than fifty years ago.
About the time the quarry was first opened T.W. Carrico married Mr. Kilburn's daughter and entered into the work of developing the quarry with his father-in-law. Mr. Carrico eventually became owner of the valuable tract and soon opened another quarry to the east of the first. He has been more than successful in the stone business and his son, a graduate of Wisconsin university, now has charge of the workings known as the Carrico and city quarry. One acre of this ground was sold to the city for more than the cost of the original tract composed of 160 acres.
T.W. Carrico, now retired, is one of Rockford's oldest and most respected citizens, having lived in the same place for nearly fifty years on Kilburn avenue, once known as the Trask bridge road. The house now occupied by Mr. Carrico and his wife is thirty-eight years old and was built on the foundation where one of Rockford's pioneer houses formerly stood. The house now stands in Rockton avenue and is still a strong building, all of the timbers being of oak and walnut brought from the Pecatonica bottoms.
Although Mr. Carrico is advanced in years he is in good health and takes a keen interest in passing affairs.
Wednesday, September 23, 1908 Daily Register-Gazette (Rockford, IL)
Death Takes T.W. Carrico
Head of Carrico Stone Company Expires After Brief Illness
Funeral on Thursday
Rockford Lose Good Citizen In His Passing—Active for Years in the Business World
Thomas W. Carrico, described by one who had known him over fifty years as "one of the gentlest, kindest and most wholesome of men," died Tuesday night at his home, 1109 Kilburn avenue. For several years the old citizen had been in ill health, but it was not until a week ago he found himself unable to leave his room. The weakness of age and a complication of heart trouble was the cause of his death.
Funeral services will be held at the residence at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Rev Thornton Anthony Mills will conduct them. Mr. Carrico was a member of the Church of the Christian Union.
The pallbearers will be Dr. Bryant Kerr, W.C. Butterworth, Fay Lewis, Dr. M.R. Harned, H.C. Porter, S.F. Needham.
Announcement of the passing of Mr. Carrico has been received with sorrow in many Rockford homes. He was one of the men whose lives linked the busy city of today with the infant village of the early fifties. He was in touch with the city's commercial growth and a factor in its development into a larger business importance. He was an employer of labor for scores of years and perhaps the best-liked man in the city in this respect.
A man who had worked for him for years heard of his death as he was playing a game of billiards.
"I can't play anymore tonight if Tom Carrico is dead." Said this man, and he put up his cue.
The little incident indicated the love and respect Mr. Carrico's employees bore for him. It has been said it was more of a relation of comradeship than employer and employee, for although a man of firmness. It is told of him that he never spoke crossly to one of his men. In his business affairs as in his family life he was even-tempered, exerting a good influence to a degree not easily estimated, but which was instantly appreciated by every person who knew him in any walk of life.
Mr. and Mrs. Carrico celebrated their golden anniversary November 10 of last year. A beautiful friendship existed between them and Mr. and Mrs. Hiram H. Waldo all those years. Mrs. Waldo, whose death occurred a few months ago, was the bridesmaid, and Mr. Waldo the best man, at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Carrico, and a short time afterward the latter were attendants at the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo. On the anniversary day last November Mr. and Mrs. Waldo were guests at the Carrico home, where both weddings had taken place. Before they separated for the day the old friends stood in the same places they had occupied when the nuptial ceremonies were performed, first Mr. and Mrs. Carrico, as their wedding table had been arranged, and then Mr. and Mrs. Waldo. It was a charming incident of the quiet observance of the golden wedding.
He had lived here since 1854 and was 78 years old. He was born in June, 1830. Among the stone quarries opened by the Carrico Stone Company was what is now known as the Hart & Page quarry.
The deceased was a member of the Church of the Christian Union.
Mr. Carrico was a native of Beverly, Mass., and when he came here he was accompanied by an uncle, the Rev. W.F. Parish, who was the pastor of the old First Baptist Church. His marriage to Miss Mary L. Kilburn was solemnized at the Kilburn home in Kilburn avenue. Nov 10, 1857, Rev Parish of Connecticut performed the ceremony. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Carrico located on a quarter section of government land northwest of the city. At that time, the tract was considered in the country but not so now, the growth of the city having been great since that time. Mr. Carrico early engaged in the stone and sand business and material from his quarry and sand pit have entered in the construction of hundreds of Rockford's finest homes and business blocks. Although nearly four score years of age, Mr. Carrico still retains an active interest in the business of the Carrico Stone company, now in charge of his son, Fred W. Carrico.
Mr. Carrico is survived by his wife and one son, Fred Carrico of Ashland avenue. Misses Mary and Margaret Saltar, granddaughters, have made their home with their grandparents since childhood. William Miller Carrico is the only grandson.
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