Frank Norwood Carhart (4282) was born 13 Jan 1873 in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States.
1880 - US Federal Census - Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States (with parents)
1889 - Residence - 509 William, Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States (Occupation: Glass Blower) (Source: 1889 Alton, Illinois City Directory)
1900 - US Federal Census - Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States (with parents) (Occupation: Glass Blower)
1889 - Residence - 509 William, Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States (Occupation: Glass Blower) (Source: 1889 Alton, Illinois City Directory)
1900 - US Federal Census - Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States (with parents) (Occupation: Glass Blower)
Frank married Edna Dorothy Champion (4298) on 9 Mar 1901 in Clayton, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Edna was born 3 Apr 1881 in Fayette, Greene, Illinois, United States to Edward Davis and Helena Ann "Lena" (Wilson) Champion.
1902 - Residence - 324 Bluff, Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States (Occupation: Glass Blower) (Source: 1902 Alton, Illinois City Directory)
Frank and Edna had the following child:
- Richard Norwood Carhart (4299) - born 11 Dec 1908 in Illinois, United States. He died at the age of 58 on 30 Sep 1967 in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States.
1910 - US Federal Census - Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States (Occupation: Glass Blower in a Glass Factory)
Frank and Edna were divorced before 1915. Edna married second Peter A. Podvant in 1915.
1918 - Residence - 41 Maryland Avenue, Westport, Baltimore, Maryland, United States (Occupation: Glass Blower, Swindell Bros., Bayard & Russell, Canton, Maryland) (Source: World War I Draft Registration)
Frank died at the age of 72 on 23 Aug 1945 in Yonkers, Westchester, New York, United States. He was buried 1 Sep 1945 in the Alton Cemetery (Block OY, Lot 320), Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States. Frank's obituary was published 25 Aug 1945 in the Alton Evening Telegraph, page 2, Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States:
Frank Carhart Dies at Yonkers
Frank Carhart, a former glassblower at the Alton plant of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., died Thursday night in a hospital at Yonkers, N. Y., a sister, Miss Elizabeth Jane Carhart, of 440 East Sixth, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. D. L. Carhart, 921 Washington, have been informed.
The message containing work of his death came to his sister-in-law, because his sister is a patient in St. Anthony's Infirmary for treatment of a back injury incurred three weeks ago in a fall.
Carhart was born in Alton, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Carhart. He attended the Alton schools and learned the glass blowing trade here. He worked in Alton at his trade until hand blowers were replaced by machines at Owens-Illinois Glass Co. He had resided in the east for the past 25 years.
He had been in falling health for several months and had been seriously ill for the past two months. A sister, Mrs. William S. McHenry of Elizabeth, N. J., has been attending him at the New York hospital.
His only immediate survivors are his two sisters. Another sister, Mrs. Mable Norman of Alton, Died last fall.