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 io6 CARTER. CARTER. In 1849 Mr. Carter was elected repre- sentative from Portland to the Legislature, and was re-elected to that office for three successive years. He was appointed by- Governor Hubbard a commissioner to establish the reform school. Subsequently he was appointed by Governor Crosby a trustee of this institution, which office he held until his resignation on removal to Massachusetts. He was appointed judge of the municipal court of Portland, by Governor Anson P. Morrill. In 1S56 he was chosen by the Republi- can members of the Legislature a delegate- at-large to the first national Republican convention at Philadelphia,and was selected as a member of the committee on plat- form, with Francis P. Blair, Judge E. R. Hoar, of Massachusetts, and other distin- guished men. In 1857 he removed to Bradford, Mass., intending to devote himself to the practice of his profession, but during the war, tak- ing a lively interest in public affairs, he was elected one year to the House of Repre- sentatives and two years to the Senate. In HENRY CARTER 1S76 he was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Cincinnati. In 1868 he was appointed, by Governor Bullock, judge of the municipal court of the Haverhill district, which position he now holds. He is also chairman of the board of commissioners on the boundary question between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Judge Carter's children by his first wife are four sons : John H., Eugene, Walter, and Robert G., and two daughters : Kate and Amelia. Two of the sons, Eugene and Robert G., are graduates from West Point. All of them served in the war of the rebellion. He contracted a second marriage, fuly 28, 1882, with Mrs. Mary F. (Dwight) Webb, of Winchester, with whom he is now living. CARTER, SOLOMON, oldest son of Solomon and Elizabeth (White) Carter, was born in Lancaster, Worcester county, fanuary 19, 1816. He had three brothers : William H., who settled in Chicago and was chairman for many years of the board of public works of that city ; George P., a prominent citizen of Cambridge, for many years chairman of the board of wa- ter works, and a member of the executive council of the State — both now deceased ; and James C, a distinguished lawyer of New York City, now living. His educational training was acquired in Ins native town, with the exception of two terms in Master Whitney's then well-known evening school in Harvard Place, opposite the Old South Church, in the city of Boston. Pie served a short time as boy in a re- tail dry goods store ; afterwards an appren- tice in the drug store of Gregg & Hollis, and Thomas Hollis. He began a retail business in 1839 at the West End ; removed to Hanover Street, where he continued in the wholesale and retail business for about thirty years, under the style of Solomon Carter, Solomon Carter & Co., Carter, Wilson & Co., Carter, Colcord & Preston, and Carter, Rust & Co. He then sold out and formed a new concern on Washington, opposite School Street, under the style of Carter e: Wiley ; he some time afterwards bought out Mr. Wiley and formed a new connection under the style of Carter, 1 [ar- ris & Haw-ley. The present style of the firm is Carter, Carter & Kilham, who oi t npyoneof the most attractive buildings on Washington Street. He now remains the oldest dealer in active trade in the State, and from small beginnings has built up a business which has become one of the largest in the city of Boston. Mr. Carter was a member of the city council in 1849 and '50; of the board of aldermen in 1S57, and also served two