Salida Mail 30 Jan 1917

The Salida Record Feb. 2, 1917
The people of Salida were both surprised and shocked last Tuesday morning when a telegram came to the stricken family announcing the sudden death of Howard Carson at Detriot, Michigan, where he had gone , with the brightest of prospects only ( a few weeks before to take a special course in electrical engineering at the Y. M. C. A. school at that place. He entered the school in January and besides taking the advanced course in electrical engineering, he was a teacher of mathematics and had just taken charge of his class when on January 23, his 23d birthday, he was stricken with pneumonia and taken to the Ford Hospital at Detroit. His sister, Mrs. Anna Roddis, of Salida, who is a professional nurse, immediately hastened to his bedside, and for several days it was a struggle between the weakening effects of the disease, and strong constitution of the young man. Then the latter seemed to gain the mastery, and the word came home that the fever was subsiding and the chances for a speedy recovery were good. Very soon following the letter came the telegram announcing his death. The sudden change from Gilman, Colorado, an altitude of about 10,000 feet to the cold damp climate and heavy atmosphere of an eastern city is believed by his friends to be the cause of the attack, for the young man was of splendid physique and always in the best of health. James Howard Carson was born January 23, 1894, at Wichita, Kans., but came to Salida when yet a little baby and grew to manhood's estate here. He was a graduate of the Salida high school with the class of 1913. While in school he was known as a model young man and an athlete of ability, being a member of the basketball team that held the championship of this section of Colorado that season, and above all his moral character was such as few young men attain. From Salida Mr. Carson went to Boulder where he took an 18 months' course in electrical engineering which fitted him for a responsible position with a big mining company at Gilman, Colorado, a position he held with credit until just recently when he resigned to enter the school at Detroit. Deceased was the son of Mrs. Mary Carson, of Salida, and besides his mother he leaves eight sisters and one brother in his immediate family. The sisters are: Mrs. Adda Parker, of Kansas; Mrs. Carrie Filson, of Gilman, Colo.; Mrs. Hattie Means, of Sargents, Colo.; Mrs. Anna Roddis, Misses Eva, Franc, Inez and Jeanette Carson and ; Master Robert, 13 years of age. Mrs. Roddis started westward with the body of her brother on Wednesday and arrived in Salida this morning. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, Rev. W. F. Clark, officiating.

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