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Rev. Arthur Frederick Carr, B.A., M.A., D.D. (1844-1910)

Arthur Frederick Carr was born November 12, 1844 to Hugh and Sophia Carr of Carr’s Corner Farm, North St. Eleanor’s. His mother Sophia was the daughter of John Ramsay of Rose Hill Farm.

Arthur, along with his siblings, Donald, George Washington, fludge) John Ramsay, Sophia Louisa, Robert, and Martha attended the North St. Eleanor’s public school. He was taken into the home of the Bedeque Presbyterian minister Rev. Robert S. Patterson, M.A. who prepared him for college. He received a scholarship to Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown which gave him free tuition and a grant of $100 for two successive years. He graduated in the spring of 1864 with qualifications to teach primary school.”

He taught for one year before going to Dalhousie in Halifax to take his arts degree. He graduated in 1868 with prizes in mathematics, logic, and psychology.13

Arthur had made a public profession of faith as a teenag- er and, upon completion of his degree at Dalhousie, he embarked upon theological studies at Pine Hill, Halifax, and Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NewJersey.”

During his final year at Pine Hill Divinity College he also completed his Master’s Degree in Arts. He was one of the first six students to receive a Master of Arts from Dalhousie. Arthur financed his secondary education through prize money and teaching school at different periods between 1866-1871.

Rev. Arthur F. Carr was ordained by the Presbyterian Presbytery of Prince Edward Island, and in 1871, was inducted into the Presbyterian Pastoral Charge of Alberton and Trgnish.15 The charge covered the area from Lot 1 (Cape North) south to Lot 6. Rev. Carr served this “loyal and united congregation”16 for a period of eighteen years. In that time the geographical area of the charge was reduced with the building of churches at Bloomfield, Lot 5, Elmsdale, Lot 4, and Montrose, Lot 3. ‘7

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