Carlton.Robert.1794.Unknown.BIOS

ROBERT M. CARLTON, one of their sons, was born in Berks Cuonty, N.C., in the
year 1794, and was with his father's family when they came to Indiana in
1816.  He married LEVINA BARLOW of Kentucky, about 1821, and together they
reared a family of six children, these five now living:  WILLIAM, AMBROSE,
MARIA L. (HUSTON), JAMES and ROBERT H.  Robert M. Carlton was one of the
principal men of the county, and at different times carried on farming,
grist and saw milling, wool-carding and merchandising on the river to New
Orleans.  In politics he was a Jeffersonian Democrat, and held several
important positions in the county, among them being that of Representative
in the State Legislature during the term 1837.  His youngest son is Robert
H. Carlton, born November 27,1834, and has been engaged in the drug trade at
Bedford ever since 1855.  He received a high school education, and is
considered one of the best mathematicians in the county, having followed
civil engineering on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad for some
time.  His marriage to Miss SALLY L. DENSON, of Bedford, was June 19, 1877.
He is Master Mason, and has held nearly all the offices in Bedford Lodge No.
14.  Politically he is a Democrat, and as such was Treasurer of Bedford two
years and in 1880 was elected County Clerk, being the only Democrat in the
county elected that year.


Submitted by: Diana Flynn <ivie@tima.com>
Date: 25 Jun 1997