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 CARTER. CARTER. 105 not sought municipal or legislative honors. He consented, however, to serve as alder- man in 1888, and in 1889 he represented his city in the lower branch of the Legisla- ture, serving upon the standing House com- mittee on finance and the joint committee on expenditures. He is a member of the William North Lodge of Masons, and of the Mt. Horeb Commandery, K. T. CARTER, FRANKLIN, son of Preserve Wood and Ruth Wells (Holmes) Carter, was born in Waterbury, New Haven county, Conn., September 30, 1837. His early education was obtained in the boarding-school of Amos Smith, New Haven. His preparatory college course was passed in Phillips Academy, Andover, where he was graduated valedictorian in the class of 1855. He entered Yale Col- lege the same year, where he remained two years, but was forced to leave by a severe hemorrhage. He traveled for three years, then entered Williams College in i860, from which he was graduated in the class of 1862. He was appointed professor of Latin and French in 1863, and after spending eight- een months in Europe, entered upon his duties in 1S65. He was appointed profes- sor of the German language and literature in Wale College in 1872, held this chair for nine years, and was elected president of Williams College, Williamstown, in 1881, which responsible and honorable position he still holds. President Carter was married in Water- bury, Conn., February 24, 1863, to Sarah Leavenworth, daughter of Charles Deni- son, and Eliza (Leavenworth) Kingsbury. Of this union were four children : Charles Frederick (1864), Alice Ruth (1865), Ed- ward Perkins (1870), and Franklin Carter, Jr. (1878). He was president of the Gospel Union, New Haven, three years ; is now president of the International Committee of Work for Boys ; trustee of Andover Theological Seminary ; corporate member of A. B. C. F. M. ; trustee of Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes at Northampton ; fellow of the American Academy. He received the degree of A. B. from Williams, 1862 ; A. M. from Dickinson, 1863, Williams, 1865, and Yale 1874; Ph.D. from Williams, 1877, and LL. D. from Union, iSSt. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America 1SS4 to '86, and the first president of the Berkshire Congregational Club, an associa- tion of Congregationalists in Berkshire county. He has been a contributor to various journals, and published an edition of the " Iphigenia auf Tauris," in 1879. CARTER, HENRY, was born in Bridg- ton, Cumberland county, Me., in 1814. His mother, who belonged to the distin- guished Hamlin family of Maine, died when he was but two years, and his father, John Carter, when he was twelve years of age. He then lived with an uncle, his guar- dian, at P.ridgton, and attended the well- known academy there, with the expectation of a collegiate course. At the age of six- teen, being informed by his guardian that the small estate left by his father was exhausted, and that the idea of a college course must be abandoned, he, without asking advice of anyone, immediately set out, on foot, for the city of Portland, forty miles distant, and found employment in the office of the " Advertiser," where he remained a year. He then went to Paris Hill, where his relative, Hannibal Hamlin, was at that time publishing the " Jeff er- sonian," and worked on that paper as a printer with Mr. Hamlin and Horatio King, now of Washington City. When Mr. Hamlin sold his interest in the paper, Mr. Carter also left and began the study of law, teaching a district school in the winter, and they were both students at law in the office of J. G. Cole, on Paris Hill, about one year. Being still desirous of obtaining a higher education, he secured, through the influ- ence of Dr. Cornelius Holland, then con- gressman for the Oxford district, an ap- pointment to the West Point Military Academy. Two years later, while at home on a furlough, an article contributed to the " Kennebec Journal " so pleased the editor of that paper that he advised Mr. Carter to resign his cadetship and engage in jour- nalism. This advice was followed, and he became, for nearly two years, a journalist at Augusta, Me., connected with the " Kennebec Journal." During these years, however, he devoted all his spare time to the study of law, and in April, 1836, was admitted to the Kennebec county bar. In June of the same year he was married to Elizabeth Jane Caldwell, of Augusta, Me., and returning to his native town, commenced the practice of his profession. In 1 84 1 he was appointed county attorney for the county of Cumberland, by Gov- ernor Kent, and held that office until the Whigs went out of power in Maine. In 1S47 he removed to Portland and took editorial charge of the " Advertiser," then the leading Whig paper in the state.