Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Carothers, James Potter March 8, 1826 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 496
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    James Potter Carothers, one who stands high as a 
businessman and a Christian gentleman, was born on Little 
Sewickley Creek, Westmoreland county, Penna, March 8, 1826, 
and is a son of Samuel Carothers and Ruth Elliott Carothers.
    Samuel Carothers was born near Chambersburg, Penna, and 
emigrated to Westmoreland county.  He was a farmer and an 
elder in the Presbyterian church at Sewickley.  He was a 
democrat until Governor Ritner's election and after that was 
a whig.  
    He married Miss Ruth Elliott.  They had seven children: 
Catherine Carothers, wife of Robert Finley, a prominent 
citizen of Redstone township; Ruth Carothers, wife of John 
Penny of McKeesport; Matilda Carothers, William Carothers, 
Jane Carothers, Eliza Carothers, married to the late Jasper 
M Thompson, and James P Carothers.
    James P Carothers was brought up and educated as all 
farmers' sons were at that time, on the farm and in the 
subscription schools until sixteen years old when he learned 
tanning.  He engaged in tanning at Mill Grove, Westmoreland 
county, until 1854 when he removed to his present residence 
where he has been engaged in tanning for over thirty years 
near Fairchance.
    In 1848 he was married to Mary Thompson, a sister of Hon 
Jasper M Thompson.  They had five children: William 
Carothers; Leah Carothers, wife of Robert Harvey, now of New 
Mexico (formerly of London), is a bookkeeper and ex-reporter 
of the legislature for that Territory; Ruth Carothers, wife 
of Millard Scholl, in lumber and planing mill business at 
West Newton; Jasper Carothers, married to Flora Belles of 
Ohio, and resides in Kansas; and Cyrus Carothers, deceased.
    After the death of his first wife, he was married to 
Miss Fannie E Smith, daughter of John Smith and Lydia 
Bedford Smith of Georges township, both of Scotch descent 
and natives of New Jersey, and a niece of Rev Dr A G 
Fairchild.
    J P Carothers has carefully and honestly acquired a 
competency of this world's goods, but has never neglected 
the calls of charity or suffering humanity.  He is a 
republican, has served as school director, and is recognized 
as an active and effective worker in the ranks of the 
republican party.  He is a member of the Presbyterian church 
at Fairchance, of which he is an honored elder and trustee. 

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