Capt. S. T. Carrico
Carrico was born in Green County, Illinois, 1840. He attended school in a log school house until he was 18 years old. He went to Chicago to Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, graduating June 14, 1859.
Carrico was clerk on a lower Mississippi steamer L. M. Kennett, Capt. J. R. Keach, commanding during the fall of 1859 and spring 1861. Carrico was in New Orleans May 1, 1861, and witnessed review of the Louisiana Tigers. He was with the Washington artillery and other organizations. He left New Orleans in May 1861, under the Confederate flag and arrived in St. Louis the night of the capture of Camp Jackson.
Carrico then went home and enlisted in Co. B. 61st Ills. Vol. Infantry, Nov. 1861. Carrico resigned as captain, May 29, 1864. Out of his company none of the original officers were left except himself, and 18 out of 83 who went in with him.
Carrico came to Harper, Kansas, in 1884. He was postmaster 1885 to 1890. He came to Alva Sept. 16, 1889 and was the chairman of townsite board No. 10. He had filled numerous positions since then of minor importance, and it was during the 1904 era that he was in the Loan Insurance and Abstract business, on the south side square, Alva.
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