Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 689.
 
ALBERT G. CARSNER

     who lives three miles north from Spray, in Wheeler county and does a
general farming and stock raising, was born in Iowa on April 5, 1849. Jonas
Carsner, his father, was born in Missouri, in 1827, and came in 1862 as a
pioneer to Oregon. The mother of our subject was Sarah A. (Pardenson) Carsner.
She was born in Pennsylvania in 1829 and is still living in Grant county. The
family left Iowa when our subject was small and removed to Kansas, in which
state he received his early education. As before stated, in 1862 they came
across the plains to Oregon, being five months in making the journey. They
settled in Lincoln county where two years were spent and then in 1864 they came
to Canyon City, Oregon, and engaged in stock raising, continuing there until
1886. Then our subject removed to his present location and took a homestead in
what is now Wheeler county. He has purchased land at different times since
until, he now has nine hundred and sixty acres, well improved and utilized as a
stock farm.  He handles about two hundred and fifty head of cattle besides some
horses and is one of  the well known and well-to-do stock men of the county. Mr.
Carsner knows well the hardships, the labors and the self denials of the pioneer
life, having come to Oregon when thirteen years of age, where he has been on the
frontier ever since. His labors and wise management have brought him the good
property that he now holds while his life has been such that he receives the
commendation and esteem of his fellows.
     In Wheeler county on August 4, 1903, Mr. Carsner married Carrie Anderson,
who was born in Missouri and crossed the plains to California when two years of
age. She has lived in this vicinity for twenty-five years. Her father, William
Robinson, was a pioneer to California. Our subject has three brothers, Warren,
John, deceased, and Walter, and two sisters, Sarah Combs and Minerva Reeves.
     Mr. Carsner is a member of the K. P. and a good active Republican.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.