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Carter, Charles Davis

composer, was born April 25, 1857, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He has composed some songs for chorus and solo; and is the director of Pittsburg Female college.

CARTER, CHARLES IGNATIUS HARDMAN, clergyman, was born in 1803 in Lebanon, Ky. He was stationed at St.

Mary's, Philadelphia, where he built the Church of the Assumption in 1849, and also erected a convent and free schools.

He afterward founded a convent and academy of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus at Sharon Hill. He died in 1879 in Philadelphia, Pa.

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