The subject of this sketch was born February 4, 1832, in Centre County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Roth and Ann (Madowell) Carter.
Mr. Carter received but a common school education during the winter and worked on the farm in season.
In 1854 he decided to come west and settled in Scott County in the spring of that year. He rented land a few years, when he purchased land in Butler Township, where he lived until 1886, when he purchased the farm on which he now lives in Princeton Township, consisting of two hundred and forty acres, one hundred and sixty-three acres of which are under cultivation. When Mr. Carter landed in Scott County he was poor, having nothing but good health as capital, and by hard work and judicious management he managed to save a sufficiency to purchase a home, and now he is one of the prosperous farmers of his Township.
In August, 1862, he enlisted in the Twentieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company K, and participated in all the engagements of his regiment; some of the most prominent battles were at Prairie Grove, siege and capture of Vicksburg, Forts Morgan and Blakely. He was mustered out at Clinton, Iowa, in 1865.
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