Class of 1875

Carrie Eliza Carr, wife of Clarence Edgar Carr, died in Andover, N. H., February 14, 1925. She was born in Northfield, Vt., April 9, 18SS, and in 1865 came with her parents to Andover, which was her home thereafter. She was graduated from Colby Academy, New London, N. H., in the class of 1875, at the head of her class, and thereafter spent two years at the New England Conservatory of Music. She was married to Mr. Carr September 5, 1879, and is survived by him and their two boys, Proctor Carr, Harvard 1904, and John P. Carr, Harvard 1911 and Harvard Law School 1914, and by a step-daughter, Miss Ella Carr, now living at Andover with her father. Prior to her last long illness beginning in 1909, Mrs. Carr was interested in all movements for the public welfare,—in church and educational matters. She served on the Andover school board for four years, and improved the character and condition of the schools. Returning from Europe in 1899 with her daughter, they were shipwrecked on Belle Isle when the "Scotsman" went ashore on the rocks in the fog, and barely escaped with their lives. Mrs. Carr suffered much from chronic bronchitis and asthma following an attack of influenza in 1908-9, and from nervous breakdown. due to overwork.

Secretary, Concord, N. H.