Carscaden

(from Beers)

Reverend David Carscaden (1830–1896), who died in Bowmanville, Ont., was one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of Western Ontario. He was a native of Ireland, son of Robert and Flora (Dean) Carscaden.

The family travelled to Canada in 1840. His mother died en route. His father, a widower with nine children, farmed in Durham County until his death.

David was called early to Christian ministry. In his early itinerancy he suffered many hardships: the roads were bad, the people were poor, and the settlements were few and far between. By 1860, he was obliged, on account of failing health, to give up ministry, so he purchased a farm in Warwick Twp. But the love of his ministry work was so strong that he returned to it and continued until he was obliged once more to retire. For many years he was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but in 1884 when the Methodist Church of Canada joined with the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Bible Christian Church and the Primitive Methodist Church, he entered the Church of England.

David Carscaden married Barbara Pain in 1852. They had three children: John Dean who married Caroline Cornell and had one son, Ailsworth; Christiana, who married Doctor Donaldson of Collingwood and had two children, Lula May and Herbert John; and William Robert Carscaden, who died in 1891.

Chapter 24 of 25 - Cascarden

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