Carter, Luther C – Carver, Jonathan
Carter, Luther C
merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 25, 1805, in Bethel, Maine. He settled in New York city, and devoted himself to mercantile pursuits with success. He was a member of the board of education in that city; and was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth congress.
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.
Carter, Oliver Stanley
merchant, banker, was born July 25, 1825, in New Hartford, Conn. He was elected a director of The North American Fire Insurance Co. in 1856, and The Home Insurance Co. about 1860, which positions he has since held. Since 1892 he has been president of The National Bank of the Republic. He owns the Carter building at Broadway and Eighth street; and the Carter and Macy building at 140-142 Pearl street.
Carter, Peter
publisher, author, was born July 19, 1825, in Scotland. He is a prominent New York publisher; and author of Crumbs from the Land of Cakes, a volume of travels in Scotland; Scotia's Bards; and three juvenile tales including Bertie Lee; Donald Fraser; and Effie's Home.
Carter, Robert
author, was born Feb. 5, 1819, in Albany, N. Y. He was a New York writer who was one of the editors of Appleton's American Cyclopædia, to which he contributed many articles. He is the author of A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England. He died Feb. 15, 1879, in Cambridge, Mass.
Carter, Russel Kelso
mathematician, author, was born Nov. 19, 1849, in Baltimore, Md. He is a mathematician of Chester, Pa., prominent in the Holiness movement in the methodist church and as a faith healer. He is the author of The Atonement for Sin and Sickness; and Miracles of Healing.
Carter, Samuel
naval officer, was born in Carter county, Tenn. He served in the civil war; and in 1865 attained the rank of lieutenant commander in the navy. During the following three years he was commandant of the Naval academy of Annapolis, receiving his promotion as captain in 1870. He died May 26, 1891, in Washington, D. C. a
Carter, Thomas Henry
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 30, 1854, in Scioto county, Ohio.
He was engaged in farming, railroading, and school teaching for number of years; studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1882 he removed from Burlington, Iowa, to Helena, Mont.; and was elected delegate from the territory of Montana to the fifty-first congress as a republican, and upon the admission of the state was elected its first representative in congress. He was commissioner of the general land office from March, 1891, to July, 1892; and in January, 1895, was elected to the United States senate by the legislature of Montana for the term beginning in 1895 and ending in 1901. In July, 1892, he was elected chairman of the republican national committee.
Carter, Timothy J
lawyer, congressman. He was secretary of the Maine senate in 1833; county attorney from 1833 to 1837; and was a representative in congress from Maine in 1837-38. He died March 14, 1838, in Washington, D. C.
Carter, W. H
clergyman, missionary, was born Oct. 27, 1829, in Utica, N. Y. He was chaplain of the sixteenth regiment of Indiana volunteers in 1862-63. He has filled various pastorates; and in 1877 began missionary work in Florida, with headquarters at Tallahassee.
Carter, William B
state senator, congressman, was born in 1812, in Tennessee. He was a member of the house and senate in the state legislature; and president of the constitutional convention. From 1835 to 1841 he was a representative in congress from his native state. He died April 17, 1848, in Carter county, Tenn.
Carter, William Francis
educator, author, was born Sept. 5, 1830, in Northborough, Mass. In 1867 he was appointed professor of ancient languages, and afterward of the Latin language and history in the university of Wisconsin.
He was the author of Annals of Tacitus; and a Short History of the Roman People.
He died Dec. 9, 1889.
Carter, William T
coal miner, was born Aug. 23, 1827, in England. About 1867 he founded the town of Redington on The Lehigh Valley railroad, below Bethlehem, built there two large blast furnaces for the manufacture of pig iron, and erected machine shops and other works and a large number of dwellings.
He died Feb. 9, 1893, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Carter, Willis Mcglascoe
educator, journalist, was born Sept. 3, 1852, in Albemarle county, Va. For sixteen years he taught school; was president of the Augusta Teachers' association; and is now the editor and owner of the Staunton Tribune, Virginia.
Carter, David Kellogg
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 22, 1812, in Rochester, N. Y. He was elected to congress as a democrat, and served two terms, from 1849 till 1853. In 1861 he was appointed minister to Bolivia. In 1863 he became chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. He died April 16, 1887, in Washington,
Cartwright, Mary J
poet, was born Feb. 5, 1856, in Portland, Ind. Her poems have appeared in the periodical press; in Sunday school and singing books, and in sheet music form. She still resides in the city of her nativity. a
Cartwright, Peter
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 1, 1785, in Amherst county, Va. He was a famous methodist preacher of Illinois; and the author of Controversy with the Devil; Autobiography of Backwoods Preacher; and Fifty Years Presiding Elder.
He filled many high positions in his church, and attended all the important conventions.
He died Sept. 25, 1872, a near Pleasant Plains, Ill.
Cartwright, Samuel Adolphus
physician, was born Nov. 30, 1793, in Fairfax county, Va. He removed to Natchez, Miss., where he labored for more than a quarter of a century, and served at one time under Gen. Jackson as surgeon. He removed to New Orleans in 1848, and in 1862 was appointed to improve the sanitary condition of the confederate soldiers near Port Hudson and Vicksburg. He died May 2, 1863, in Jackson, Miss.
Caruth, Asher Graham
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1844, in Scottsville, Ky. He was attorney of the board of trustees of the public schools of Louisville, by annual elections, from 1873 until 1880; in 1880 was elected commonwealth's attorney for the ninth judicial district of Kentucky for the constitutional term of six years, and was re-elected without opposition in 1886. He was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftysecond and fifty-third congresses.
Caruthers, Eli Washington
clergyman, historian, was born Oct. 23, 1793, in Rowan county, N. C. He became pastor of Buffalo and Allemance churches in 1820. He is the author of Life of David Caldwell; and two volumes of Revolutionary Incidents and Sketches of Characters, Chiefly in the Old North State. He died Nov. 14, 1865, in North Carolina.
Caruthers, Robert L
soldier, jurist, congressman, was born July 31, 1800, in Smith county, Tenn. In 1834 he was elected a brigadier-general of militia; was a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1835; and was a presidential elector in 1845, declining to run for governor. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1841 to 1843, declining a re-election; and in 1852 was called to a seat on the supreme bench of Tennessee, holding the position many years. He was a delegate to the peace convention of 1861.
He died Oct. 4, 1882.
Caruthers, Samuel
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 13, 1820, in Madison county, Mo. He was elected a member of the house of representatives in congress from Missouri from 1853 to 1859. He died July 20, 1860, in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Carver, John
governor, was born about 1590 in England. He was the first governor of Plymouth from 1620 to 1621.
He died April 5, 1621.
Carver, Jonathan
traveler, author, was born in 1732, in Stillwater, N. Y. He was of an adventurous disposition, and traveled through the interior parts of North America. He was the author of a work entitled Travels through the Interior Parts of North America. He died Jan. 31, 1780, in London, England.