Sam Carr

Sam Carr (July 7, 1906–1989) was an organizer for the Communist Party of Canada and, its successor, the Labor-Progressive Party in the 1930s and 1940s. He was born Schmil Kogan in Tomachpol, Ukraine in 1906 and immigrated to Canada in 1924, living in Winnipeg and Regina before settling in Montreal in 1925. Carr became an organizer for the Young Communist League with Fred Rose.

In 1931, Carr was arrested with other Communist Party leaders and detained in Kingston Penitentiary for 30 months for being an officer in the party, which had been initially declared illegal in 1931. Following his release from prison he was an organizer of the 1935 On to Ottawa Trek.

He was the editor of the Communist Party's newspaper, The Clarion, before fleeing to the United States with other party leaders in 1940 when the party was again declared illegal. When the Soviet Union became an ally later in the war as a result of the German invasion of the USSR, those party leaders such as Carr and Tim Buck who had gone underground turned themselves into the authorities in 1942 and were released after ten days on the promise that they would refrain from communist activities. As a result, the Labor-Progressive Party was formed in 1943 as a legal front for the party - Carr became its national organizer.

Sam Carr (musician)

Sam Carr (born Samuel Lee McCollum, April 17, 1926 – September 21, 2009) was an American blues drummer best known as a member of The Jelly Roll Kings.

Largely self-taught, Carr is noted for his "mimimalist" three-piece drum kit consisting of a snare drum, a bass, and high hat cymbal.

Early life

Born near Marvell, Arkansas, McCollum was adopted as a toddler into the Carr family and raised on their farm near Dundee, Mississippi. He also took their last name.

At 16, Carr returned to Arkansas where he played bass for his biological father, Robert Nighthawk, an established blues musician. He also worked as a chauffeur. Carr married his wife Doris in 1946, and they began sharecropping in Helena, Arkansas. He was involved in a dispute over a borrowed mule team with the plantation owner, who attempted to beat him. Carr later stated: "I wasn't going to let him whoop me, that was plumb out of the question. From that day on, white people called me crazy."

The Carrs moved to Chicago, and then St. Louis to live with Carr’s biological mother. In St. Louis, Carr began playing bass guitar with harmonica player Tree Top Slim. Carr formed his own band, Little Sam Carr and the Blue Kings, which initially featured Nighthawk's second wife Early Bea on drums, until Carr decided to take on that role. The band played mostly "low-class clubs" in poor neighborhoods of St. Louis.

List of House characters

This page is a comprehensive listing and detailing of the various characters who appear, from time to time, in the television series House. The list is divided episode-wise, as well as character-wise, and includes recurring characters, such as Dr. James Wilson, Cuddy, Foreman, Rachel Taub, and Dominika, as well as characters who appear in only a few episodes, such as Steve McQueen (the rat) and House's stalker, Ali.

Main characters

Senior doctors

Carr House

Carr House, is situated within the Bank Hall Estate, half-way between the villages of Tarleton and Much Hoole at the extreme north-west of the village of Bretherton, Lancashire, England. The building faces south to the Bretherton road, from which it stands back some distance and has a foreyard inclosed on the west side by farm buildings.

The Stone Family

"Carr House" is the ancestral home of the Stone Family who built the house in 1613 by Thomas Stone, who was a haberdasher from London and his brother Andrew, who was a merchant from Amsterdam.

The local church of St. Michael was built in 1628 and was a gift to the people from the local villages of Croston, Much Hoole and Bretherton by Thomas and Andrew, who also built a manor house for the rector of St Michael's. John gave the church its font and his wife donated the silver goblets and plate that are still used in the church today for communion.

Andrew shipped goods to England via Hoole and Richard Stone imported Irish panel boards and timber in 1604 for the Shuttleworth family, who were then building Gawthorpe Hall, with 1,000 pieces, storing them till needed in Hoole's tithe barn.

Carr House (Monmouth, Illinois)

The Carr House is a historic house located at 416 East Broadway in Monmouth, Illinois. The house was built in 1877, and local blacksmith John Carr and his family moved to the house three years later. In 1898, Carr's daughters hired contractor George B. Davis to extensively redesign the home, which originally had a Second Empire design. Davis' design includes elements of the Classical Revival, Jacobethan, and Victorian Gothic styles and is the only high style eclectic home remaining in Monmouth. The roof's gables with parapets and stone string courses are a key Jacobethan element, while the house's porches and balconies have a Classical influence; the Victorian Gothic elements, such as dormers and window treatments, are less distinctive.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 1988.

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