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 CARTER.

CARTER.

Mr. Carter was a manager of the American Bible society; a member of the board of directors of Princeton seminary ; for fifty years a member of the board of foreign missions ; an earnest temper- ance worker, and a prominent abolitionist. In later years much of his time was spent in foreign travel. See Robert Cartel- : His Life and Work (1891). He died in New York city, Dec. 28, 1889. CARTER, Robert, editor, was born in Albany, N. Y., Feb. 5, 1819, of Irish parentage. He was educated at the Jesuit college of Chambly in Canada. In his sixteenth year his guardian, who was librarian of the New York state library, made him his assistant. In 18-41 he removed to Boston to undertake some literary work in the interest of the Swedenborgians, whose faith he had adopted, and two years later he joined James Russell Lowell in editing the Pioneer, which was short- lived. Mr. Carter then found employment with book publishers as editor and literary adviser. He also held small government positions, and in 1847 became secretary to William H. Prescott, the historian, with whom he worked for more than a year, in the meantime gathering material for his sketch on the character and literary habits of Prescott. In 1848 he became active in the Free Soil party, and in 1850 wrote for the Boston Atlas a series of articles in reply to Prof. Francis Bowen, who attacked the Hungarian revolu- tionists in the North American Revieiv. He then became an editorial writer on the staff of the Boston Daily Comnionirealth, and later sole editor. In 1854, as secretary of the Massachusetts state committee of the Free Soil party, he personally called the Worcester convention of July 20, which founded the Republican party, by adopting that name chosen by him, and approving a platform which he had prepared. In 1855 he became an editor of the Telegraph, and in 1856 was made editor of the Daily Atlas. In 1857 the Telegraph and Atlas were united with the Traveller. After the failure of the Traveller he removed to Wash- ington, where he was special correspondent to the New York Tribune until 1859. He then became connected with Charles A. Dana and George Rip- ley in editing the Neio American Cyclopcedia. From 1864 to 1869 he was editor of the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat, and in the latter year became editor of Appleton's Journal. In 1873 he resigned this position to become an associate editor of Tlie American CyclopoBclia. His published writ- ings include The Hungarian Controversy (1853), and ^4 Summer Cruise on the Atlantic Coast of Neio England (1858 ; new ed., 1888). He died in Cambridge. Mass., Feb. 15. 1879.

CARTER, Russel Kelso, educator, was born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 19, 1849. He was educated at the Pennsjdvania military academy, graduat- ing in 1867. In 1869 he was appointed instructor ;

in 1872, professor of chemLstry and natural sci- ences ; and in 1881, professor of civil engineering and higher mathematics in that institution. He was connected with the ••Holiness" schLsm of the Methodist church. He contributed to the Micro- cosm (N. Y.), and in 1886 began at Chester, Pa., the publication of The Kingdom. He published: Miracles of Healing (1880) ; Pastor Blum- hardt (1882) ; and several pamphlets on Faith cure.

CARTER, Samuel Powhatan, naval officer, was born in Carter county, Tenn., Aug. 6, 1819. He attended Washington college, Tenn., studied at Princeton, and was apijointed a midshipman in the XJ. S. navy in 1840. In 1846 he was on duty at the naval school in Philadelphia, when he was promoted passed midshipman. He served in the Mexican war, participating in the taking of Vera Cruz. During 1847-'48 he was attached to the U. S. naval observatory in Washington; 1851-'53 was assistant instructor at the U. S. naval academy; was promoted master in 1854, and lieutenant in 1855. During 1855-'57 he was attached to the San Jacinto of the Asiatic squad- ron, and participated in the taking of the Barrier forts in the Canton river. He was assistant in- structor in seamanship at the naval academy from 1858 to 1860, and on July 11, 1861, was ordered on special service with the army in east Tennessee. He was commissioned acting briga- dier-general Sept. 16, 1861, and brigadier-general May 1, 1862 ; was provost-marshal of east Tennes- see during 1863-'64; was brevetted major-general of United States volunteers March 13, 1865 ; was mustered out January, 1866. 'He Avas distin- guished for his gallantry in the engagements at Wildcat, Ky., October, 1861, Mill Spring, 1862, and in the capture of Cumberland Gap. He com- manded the left wing of the army at Kinston, N. C, March 10, 1865, and defeated the Confed- ei-ates at Goldsboro. At the close of the war he returned to naval duty, was promoted com- mander June 25, 1865; during 1869-"72 was com- mandant at the U, S. naval academy; was promoted captain, 1870; was a member of the lighthouse board, 1867-'80; was promoted com- modore Nov. 13, 1878; was retired Aug. 6, 1881, and promoted rear-admiral on the retired list May 16, 1882. He died in Washington, D. C, May 26, 1891.

CARTER, Thomas Henry, senator, n-as born at Junior Furnace, Scioto county, Ohio, Oct. 30, 1854; son of Edward and Margaret Carter, who were born in Ireland, and first settled in the state of Maryland, moving to Ohio about 1849. The family removed from Ohio to Illinois in 1865. The son attended the public schools for a brief time and then engaged in railroading, farming and school-teaching. In 1875 he removed to