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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. dent of the Clarke school for the deaf. He the author of Life of Mark Hopkins; a translation of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris; and other productions. Carter, George Robert, governor, was bom Dec. 28, 1866, in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1885 he graduated from Phillips academy of Andover; and in 1888 graduated in civil enis

gineering from Sheffield scientific school of Yale university. In 1885-87 he was a member of Yale university. In 1885-87 he was member of the Yale foot ball teams; and in 1887-88 was a member of Yale crews. In 1901-03 he was a member of the Hawaiian senate; and in 1903 was treasurer of the republican central committee for Hawaii. In 1903 he was secretary of the territory of Hawaii. He was governor of the territory of Hawaii for the term of 1903-08. Carter, Harley H., lawyer, jurist, was

born in New York. He was appointed from Michigan an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Arizona. Carter, James, clergyman, author, was Oct. 1, 1853, in New York City. He received the degree of B.A. from Columbia university; and in 1885 graduated from the Union theological seminary. In 1885-89 he was pastor of the first presbyterian church of Mendham, N.J.; and since 1889 has been pastor of the church of the covenant at Williamsport. Pa. He is a member of the synod-

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Garter, Joel Walker, soldier, merchant, banker, manufacturer, was born Nov. 10, 1845, near Florence, Ala. He served in the army throughout the civil war. Since 1894 he has been president of the First national bank of Nashville, Tenn. Carter, John, pioneer, statesman. When the district of Washington, now the state of Tennessee, was, annexed to North Carolina during the revolution, he was elected, with John Sevier and Charles Robertson, to the convention of 1785 that assembled at Halifax, N.C., and framed a constitution for the state of Prankland, which was reunited with North Carolina in 1788. He died in North

Carolina. Carter, John, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1793, on Black River, S.C. In 1832-29 he was a representative from South Carolina to the seventeenth, the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth congresses. He died June 20, 1850, in Georgetown, D.C. Carter, John C, naval officer, was born in 1805, in Virginia. In 1863 he commanded the steamer Michigan of the lakes. He was then commissioned as commodore on the retired list in 1867. He died on Nov. 24, 1870, in

Brooklyn, N.Y. Carter, John Ridgly, lawyer, diplomat, was born Nov. 28, 1864, in Maryland. He was educated at Trinity college of Hartford, from which institu-

tion he has received the degrees of A.B. and M.A. He studied law at Harvard law school, receiving the degree of LL.B'. He subsequently studied at the Leipzig university, and in 1889 was admitted to the Baltimore bar. In 1896 he

committee on home missions and sus-

tentation, the Palestine exploration fund; and records of the past exploration society. He is the author of Songs of Work and Worship and Walter Carter, Autobiography and

Reminiscence.

James Coolidge, lawyer, author, Oct. 14, 1827, in Lancaster, Mass. In 1875 he was a member of the commission to devise a form of municipal government for the cities of New York state. He was the author of The Codification of our Common Law. He died in 1905 in New York City. Carter,

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Carter, James Gordon, educator, state senator, author, was bom Sept. 7, 1795, in Leominister, Mass. He was a prominent educator of Massachusetts; and in 1835-40 was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts. He was the author of Essays on Popular Education; Geography of New Hampshire; Geography of Massachusetts; and Letters to William Prescott on the Free Schools of New England. He died July 32, 1849, in Chicago, 111. Carter, James Madison Gore, soldier, physician, author, was born April 15, 1843, in

Johnson county.

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Chattanooga to Atlanta, with Sherman to the sea, through Carolinas to Rockingham, where he was captured and taken to Libby prison. He is the author of Outlines of Medical Botany of the United States; Catarrhal Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; and Diseases of the Stomach. freesboro,

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became second secretary to the American London and in 1905 became first

secretary: Since 1896 he has been a repre-

sentative in the United States diplomatic service; and is now first secretary of embassy, with headquarters in London. Carter, John Rufus, lawyer, author, was born Jan. 24, 1863, in Lewis, N.Y. In 1885 he graduated from the law department of the Boston university, receiving the degree of LL.B. He is a successful lawyer of Sioux City, Iowa. He was the editor of the Supplement to the Code of Iowa. Carter, Joseph McKendree, educator, clergyman, college president, was born Jan. 1, of the methodist episcopal church, fourteen years of which he was presiding elder.
 * 1853, near Huntington, Tenn. For twentyfive years he has been a traveling clergyman

Carter, Joseph Newton, lawyer, legislator, was born March 13, 1843, in Hardin county, Ky. Since 1869 he has practiced law in Quincy, 111.; and in 1878 and 1881 was a member of the Illinois state legislajurist,