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
