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Rep. John Carey, (R-OH)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Monongalia County, Virginia, United States
Death: March 17, 1875 (82)
Carey, Wyandot County, Ohio, United States
Place of Burial: Carey, Wyandot County, Ohio, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Stephen Brown Carey and Sarah Carey
Husband of Dorcas Carey
Father of Napoleon Bonaparte Carey; MacDonnough Monroe Carey; Emma Marie Carey; Cindarella Brown; Dorcas Dow and 1 other
Brother of Henderson Carey; William Carey; Isaac Carey; Stephen Carey; Naomi Carey and 4 others

Occupation: US Congressman
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About Rep. John Carey, (R-OH)

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John Carey (April 5, 1792 – March 17, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia), Carey moved with his parents to the Northwest Territory in 1798. He served under General William Hull in the War of 1812. He served as associate judge 1825–1832. He was appointed Indian agent at the Wyandotte Reservation in 1829. He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1828, 1836, and 1843. Presidential elector in 1840 for Harrison/Tyler.[1] Promoter and first president of the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, from Sandusky to Dayton, about 1845. He established the town of Carey, Ohio.

Carey was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861). He died in Carey, Ohio, March 17, 1875. He was interred in the family burial ground on the home farm. He was reinterred in 1919 in Spring Grove Cemetery, Carey, Ohio. Family

John Carey was the second son and third child of Stephen Brown Carey and Sarah Mitten Carey.[2] He married Dorcas Wilcox (1790-1867), of Worthington, Ohio, on January 9, 1817.[3] She was a native of Connecticut.[4] They had six children named Napoleon Bonaparte Carey (1818-1846), MacDonnough Monroe Carey (1820-1895), Emma Marie Carey (1822-1842), Eliza Anne Carey Kinney (1824-1904), Cinderella Carey Brown (1826-1892), and Dorcas Carey Dow (1830-1909)

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Rep. John Carey, (R-OH)'s Timeline

1792
April 5, 1792
Monongalia County, Virginia, United States
1818
June 18, 1818
Franklin County, Ohio, United States
1820
1820
1822
January 15, 1822
1824
1824
1826
May 2, 1826
1830
1830
1875
March 17, 1875
Age 82
Carey, Wyandot County, Ohio, United States
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Spring Grove Cemetery, Carey, Wyandot County, Ohio, United States