Carter, Horace Heron

CARTER, HERON, MILES, ROBB, WELCH

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Date: 8/4/2005 at 06:43:55

A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931

HON. HORACE HERON CARTER, judge of the Third Judicial District of Iowa, has done his work well, whether as a practicing attorney, public official or on the bench, and is respected for his character, his learning and for abilities
that have steadily improved with his varied experience.

Judge Carter was born in Jefferson County, Iowa, July 25, 1869, a son of
Mark F. and Deborah (Heron) Carter. His father was born in Maine, April 15,
1838. He was twenty years of age when he came to Iowa and settled in Jefferson County in 1858. He taught school after coming to Iowa, and was a soldier of the Civil war in Company E of the Second Iowa Infantry. For many years he followed the occupation of merchant and miller. His wife, Deborah Heron, was born in Pennsylvania, of Scotch ancestry. The Heron family came to Iowa and settled in Jefferson County in 1857.

Horace Heron Carter is one of the honored alumni of Iowa Wesleyan University
at Mount Pleasant. He studied law with Judge W. S. Withrow, later a justice
of the Iowa Supreme Court. For two years he acted as clerk to Judge John S.
Woolson of the United States District Court. He was also for two years
associated with Lewis Miles, former United States district attorney. Judge
Carter practiced law at Mount Pleasant from 1900 until 1903. In the latter year
he removed to Corydon, which has been his home since that date. He was county attorney of Wayne County from 1905 to 1909. In 1917 he became associated with Attorney General H. M. Havner of Des Moines. Governor Kendall in June, 1924, elevated Mr. Carter to his present position on the district bench.

Judge Carter married at Corydon, September 28, 1905, Miss Winifred Miles.
Mrs. Carter is an Iowa woman known for her civic and political activities all
over the state. She is a daughter of Lewis and Mary D. (Robb) Miles. Her
father, Lewis Miles, was for over forty years recognized as one of the
outstanding members of the Iowa bar and held some of the most important offices in the line of his profession. He was born in Ohio, June 30, 1845, and was eight years of age when, in April, 1853, his parents, William and Emily (Welch) Miles, moved to Iowa. His father secured a tract of land from the Government, and part of the City of Corydon is located on the old Miles homestead. The Old Miles homestead, a beautiful residence reflecting the old time ideas of comfort and also bespeaking culture and refinement, was built half a century ago. At that time it was practically a country home but is now in the central part of Corydon. The home today is occupied by Judge and Mrs. Carter. Lewis Miles for thirteen years was United States district attorney for the Southern Iowa District. He served in that office under three presidents, Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt. He was highly regarded for his knowledge of the law, and his interests also extended to a wide range of literature, his library being notable both for its size and the taste for good literature exhibited in its selection. Lewis Miles had been a resident of Wayne County for seventy years. He passed away at the age of seventy-six. He was always a staunch
Republican.

Mrs. Lewis Miles is another occupant of the old Miles home at Corydon. She
was born in Illinois and was brought by her parents to Wayne County in 1855.
During her life time she has seen this section of the state develop from a
portion of the frontier. She was one of the earnest and early workers in the
Iowa suffrage movement and has also been prominent in the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. She is now at the age of seventy-seven, still active and in
touch with the varied interests of the world about her.

Mrs. Carter was educated in the Conservatory of Music of Iowa Wesleyan
University, where she graduated, and she also studied in Northwestern University in Illinois. She has been active in club work, and is especially well known among the woman leaders of the Republican party. She was a member of the
state central committee in 1920, was elector at large in 1924, and in 1928 was chosen a delegate at large to the Kansas City national convention. She represented Iowa at the formal notification of Mr. Hoover at Palo Alto, California, in 1928. Mrs. Carter organized the Wayne County Chapter of D. A. R. and was chairman of the resolutions committee of the Federation of Women's Clubs of
Iowa.

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