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Carter, Mary Helen

educator, poet, was born Jan. 1, 1871, in Fillmore county, Minn. For several terms she taught school in Iowa; and her poems have received extensive publication in the periodical press.

CARTER, NATHAN FRANKLIN, clergyman, author, poet, was born Jan. 6, 1830, in Henniker, N. H. He is the author of The Native Ministry of New Hampshire; and The Ride for Life and Other Poems. For several years he was one of the editors of the New Hampshire Journal of Education. His poems have constantly appeared in periodical literature, and in Poets of America, and other standard collections. He is also an authority on religious matters in his denomination.

CARTER, NATHANIEL HAZELTINE, journalist, author, was born Sept. 17, 1787, in Concord, Mass. He was a New York journalist who published Letters from Europe, and wrote many poems of reflection. He died Jan. 2, 1830, in Marseilles, France.

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