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 CARTTER.

CARVER.

Burlington, Iowa, and later to the state of Ken- tucky. In 1882 he settled in Helena, Montana, where he practised law until 1888, when he was elected territorial delegate to the 51st Congress. In 1889, the territory having been admitted as a state, he was elected its first congressional repre- sentative. He was chairman of the committee on mines and mining in the 51st Congress, and in March, 1891, was appointed by President Harri- son commissioner of the general land office. On July 16, 1891, he was elected chairman of the na- tional Republican committee, and as such con- ducted the presidential campaign of 1892. He was U.S. senator from Montana, 1895-1901. and in 1900 was appointed U.S. commissioner to the St. Louis exposition.

CARTTER, David Kellogg, jurist, was born in Rochester, N. Y., June 22, 1812. He was admit- ted to the bar and practised first at Massillon, Ohio. He was twice elected to the state legisla- ture, and in 1848 was elected a representative to the 31st Congress as a Democrat. He removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in the late fifties, and was active in the presidential canvass of 1860 as a Republican. During 1861 and 1862 he served as United States minister to Bolivia. In 1863 he •was made chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. He died in Washington, D. C, April 16, 1887.

CARTWRIQHT, Peter, clergyman, was born in Amherst covmty, Va., Sept. 1, 1785. About 1790 his father, who was a soldier in the revolu- tionary army, moved to Logan county, Ky., then a wild and unsettled region. He received a meagre education, was converted at the age of sixteen, and became a local preacher. In 1803 he became a regu- lar preacher, and was ordained an elder in 1806 by Bishop Asbury. In 1823 he moved to Illinois, where he set- tled in Sangamon county, being twice -^ elected to represent that district in the state legislature. He

yltb6M~ ^^"^^ ^ delegate at all the conferences for many years. He was a Democrat in politics and opp(jsed .slavery. In 1846 he was a Democratic candidate for representative in Congress, but was defeated by Abraham Lincoln. He was for fifty years a presiding elder of the Methodist chvirch, his quaint and forcible style of preach- ing was suited to the times and to the ])eople anions whom he labored, and he was both feared and beloved. He published several pamph-

lets, of which his Controversy tcith the Devil (1853), and an Autohiography of Rev. Peter Cartwright were tlie most notable. He died near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county. 111., Sept. 25, 1873.

CARTWRIQHT, Samuel Adolphus, physician, was born in Fairfax county, Va., Nov. 30, 1793. He pursued his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and practised his profession at Huntsville, Ala., and at Natchez, Miss. In 1848 he removed to New Orleans. He made a special study of epidemic diseases, and in 1862 he con- tracted an illness, which proved fatal, while improving the sanitary conditions of the Con- federate soldiers at Port Hudson and Vicksburg. He died in Jackson, Miss., May 2, 1863.

CARUTHERS, Robert L., jurist, was born in Smith county, Teun., in 1800. He was left an orphan at an early age, and worked hard to ac- quire the means for an education. He attended Greenville college, studied law in the office of Judge Samuel Powell, was admitted to the bar in 1823, and in September of the same year was elected clerk of the house of representatives of the general assembly of Tennessee. At the close of his term he practised his profession in Leb- anon, Wilson county. In 1827 he was elected attorney-general for his circuit, serving until 1832, when he resigned. In 1835 he was the representative from Wilson county in the first general assembly held after the adoption of the new constitution. He served with distinction on the judiciary committee, and after the ad- journment of the legislature made a compilation of the statutes of the state. In 1840 he was elected as a representative to the 27th Congress, succeeding John Bell. In 1852 he was appointed supreme judge to succeed Matthew Greene on his resignation. He was re-elected to the office by the legislature in 1853, and, on the adoption of the constitutional amendment, providing for election by the people, he was elected by them in 1854. In 1861 he was a delegate to the peace commission, and later served as a member of the provisional congress of the Confederate states. In 1863 he was elected governor, but the occupa- tion of the state by the Federal forces prevented his induction into office. At the close of the war he formed a law partnership with Judge Wil- liam F. Cooper at Nashville. A few years later he retired from i)ractice, and became professor of law in Cumberland university, of whose board of trustees he had be^n president since 1842, which position he held until his death, Oct. 2, 1892.

CARVER, John, first governor of Plymouth, Mass., was born in England about 1590. He was a brother-in-law of Rev. John Robinson and a member of his church at Scrooby. Nottingham- shire. With the rest of the congregation he