From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Pages 668 - 671 

JULIAN M. CAREY.  Read back the pages of history until you are lost in the 
hieroglyphs and obscurity of the dim past; walk back through the dark corridors 
of time from  the magnificent civilization of today until you find yourself 
musing on the world's first battlefield; scan the characters of every great 
commander, and throw your brightest light on the motives of every soldier, and 
the impartial historian will then tell you that in all this gloomy concave of 
war, in all this cavernous darkness of suffering and death, in all the 
sacrifice that humanity has offered upon the sanguinary field of Mars, no 
character so pure, so noble, so unselfish - so heroic has yet been given the 
world as the American citizen soldier, fighting, suffering, dying to lift up a 
fallen race, to preserve the integrity of a free nation, and to make immortal 
the flag painted by the finger of destiny and illuminated by the stars of 
heaven.  When the dreams of the far-flung legions of the grand army of the 
early sixties have been terminated by "the angel with the backward look and 
folded wings of ashen gray," the future generations will find their dream was 
true, and turn and look down the mist-shrouded aisles of the past to their 
record of glory, and with a sacred tear and a proud thrill of memory, will be 
glad that their old age was filled with peace and plenty, and that the republic 
which they saved was generous with her defenders, and that they faltered not at 
death, for they carried the everlasting love of their fellow men with them, and 
reached the mystic goal where no furloughs are given, and one are wanted, and 
where the password is "Eternal Peace and rest."
 
One of this great host, who is yet active in life's varied affairs, is Julian 
M. CAREY, an honored resident of Genoa Junction.  He was born in Cayuga county, 
New York, June 2, 1844, and he is the son of David W. and Jane E. (RAND) 
CAREY.  The father was born in Columbia county, New York, in 1808, and he was 
the son of Amos E. and Carissa (BARNES) CAREY, the former born in Cherry 
Valley, New York, in 1790.  Amos E. CAREY was a soldier in the war of 1812, and 
he received a land warrant for his services, and located in Lee county, 
Illinois.  He sold this land to a Mr. LOVERAGE, an early resident of this 
county, southeast of Lake Geneva.  Amos and David W. CAREY came to Wisconsin in 
September 1846, and settled in Bloomfield township, section 5.  The subject was 
then two years old.  He recalls, as he grew older, seeing deer run across their 
farm, and he remembers their first Christmas dinner in this county.  David W. 
CAREY had two brothers, but they did not locate here.  Amos CAREY lived here 
until 1853.  His wife died in 1852 and the following year he went back east and 
married again, remaining there until his death in 1858.  Jane E. (RAND) CAREY 
was the daughter of John RAND and wife.  It is believed her parents came from 
Holland and through them she was one of the heirs of the famous estate that 
claims the Trinity church property in New York City.  After Amos CAREY sold out 
he returned east.  David W. CAREY and family moved to Kenosha county in 1853 
and farmed in Wheatland township.  His wife, mother of Julian M. CAREY, died 
there in 1855.  That broke up the home.  There were six children, Milton B., 
Victorene, Julian M., Isadore L., Therese A., and Edwin, who died in infancy.
 
The father of these children went to California and the children scattered; 
only two of them now survive, Therese and the subject.  The former is the wife 
of Thomas NORTON, a native of Kentucky, and they now live in Chicago.
 
Julian M. CAREY was offered a home in Illinois with his father's sister.  He 
lived there about seven years, until the spring of 1862, when he returned to 
Bloomfield township, this county, and worked on a farm east of Lake Geneva.  
When the call came for troops to suppress the Rebellion he enlisted on 
September 2, 1862, in Company C, Twenty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.  
They were sent to Kentucky on garrison duty where they remained until in 
February, 1863, then went down the Ohio and up the Cumberland to reinforce 
Rosecrans.  They went from Nashville to Franklin and from there on a 
reconnoitering expedition.  He was taken prisoner March 25, 1863, and sent to 
Libby prison, and after being kept there about a month, in April he was sent to 
Parol Camp, Benton Barracks, St. Louis, and there exchanged in June, 1863.  He 
was sent back to Tennessee and did garrison duty at Murfreesboro and around 
Nashville until April 19, 1864, when he was ordered to join Sherman's army, and 
on May 2d started on the famous Georgia campaign.  There was hard fighting 
almost continually.  The brigade containing the Twenty-second Wisconsin 
Regiment, under Brigadier-General Coburn, has the distinction of having 
received the surrender of the city of Atlanta.  After the capture of Atlanta 
they went on with Sherman on his march to the sea, taking Savannah, December 
10, 1864, then on through the Carolinas to Goldsboro where they were when 
Lincoln was assassinated.  From there they went to Raleigh in pursuit of 
Johnson, and from there they went north to Washington, having marched and 
covered all the distance in that world-famous campaign in thirteen months to a 
day.  Mr. CAREY was eighteen years old when he enlisted and he was just past 
twenty-one when he was honorably discharged after taking part in the Grand 
Review in Washington.  He was mustered out at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 28, 
1865.
 
After the war Mr. CAREY went to Illinois and engaged in the harness business at 
Chemung, remaining there eighteen months, then gave it up and worked around 
there until the winter of 1869 and 1870, when he went to Kansas and Missouri.  
In May, 1870, he joined his father at Georgetown, Eldorado county, California, 
and worked at gold mining two years.  Returning to Chemung, he remained there a 
year, then came back to Walworth county, locating again in Bloomfield 
township.  In August, 1873, he began clerking in a general store.  In March, 
the following spring, he bought the store from the widow who owned it, buying 
the stock on credit, giving his personal note.  He continued the business 
successfully and paid off the note in due course of time, and he has been in 
business ever since, having expended his operations in many lines.  About 1884 
he bought the mill at Genoa Junction and was in the flour business until 1910 
when he sold the mill, but he still carries on the flour and feed business in 
addition to his general merchandising.  On February 14, 1898, the same day the 
battleship "Maine" was blown up in Havana harbor, he installed an electric 
light plant for lighting in Genoa Junction, which he ran by water power in 
connection with the mill.  He also built an ice house about 1891 and shipped 
ice, later selling out to the Knickerbocker Ice Company.  He has also been in 
the coal business ever since coming to Geneva.  In September 1909, he bought a 
farm at the east end of Genoa Junction, part of it extending across into 
Illinois.
 
Mr. CAREY was married on January 28, 1874, to Adelia BYWATER, at Chemung, 
McHenry county, Illinois, where she had taught school seven terms.  She was 
born in Cayuga county, New York, and she came to Illinois with her parents when 
young.  Her father had enlisted in 1862 as a soldier in the Civil war and was 
killed at Vicksburg.
 
Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. CAREY, of whom May died when eighteen 
months old; Eddie died in infancy; those living are, Grace I., wife of John R. 
SIBLEY, who is with the Reitz Lumber Company, in Chicago; Myrtle J. married 
John H. MOORE, who is with the Knickerbocker Ice Company and lives in Chicago, 
where he has a position of great responsibility.  David William is in 
partnership with Mr. CAREY in the store, and he is unmarried; Blaine, who is 
also unmarried, is operating the farm for his father; Alice married Arthur 
MAINE, and he has charge of the canning department for the Borden Condensed 
Milk Company at Genoa Junction; Sherman is attending the State University at 
Madison; Bernice L. is at home and is in school; Winifrede, the youngest 
daughter, is also at home and in school.
 
Mr. CAREY is a Republican and he has served several terms on the school board, 
also was town clerk.  He has taken an active part in county and state politics 
at various time.
 
Mr. CAREY joined the Lake Geneva lodge of Masons in 1865 and he held his 
membership there until the lodge was organized at Genoa Junction, when he 
became a charter member of the latter.  In 1879 he built the store building, 
with the Masonic lodge hall above.  He and his wife belong to the Methodist 
church.
 
Although sixty-eight years old, Mr. CAREY is exceptionally well-preserved and 
is as vigorous as most men at fifty.  He has long been regarded as one of the 
leading citizens of Genoa Junction and has done much for the good of the town.  
He is a plain, obliging, hospitable gentleman who stands high in his community.

Submitted By:  Carol
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