PERRY L. CARTER
Perry L. Carter, who owned a splendid farm of four hundred and eighty acres in Melville township, but who is now living retired in Audubon, Iowa, was born on January 5, 1858, in Venango county, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Henry and Mary Ann (Watts) Carter. Henry Carter, a farmer by occupation, was reared and remained in Pennsylvania all his life. He was the father of twelve children, only three of whom, Robert M., Hannah M. and Perry L., are now living. Both Henry and Mary Ann (Watts) Carter are now deceased.
Perry L. Carter received his education in the public schools of Venango county, Pennsylvania, and after leaving school farmed with his father until he was twenty-three years of age. He then came west and located in Kansas, where he lived for a short time, and afterwards he came to Iowa and located in Audubon county. In 1880 he settled in Greeley township, where he worked on a farm. Later, he purchased eighty acres of land at seven dollars an acre, improving the place in various ways and especially by breaking the tough sod. Three years later he purchased eighty acres more and engaged in general farming in that township until 1900, when he purchased a half section and farmed for one year. In 1901 he removed to Melville township, where he purchased four hundred and eighty acres of land. Here he farmed until 1907, when he retired and moved to Audubon.
Mr. Carter was married on December 25, 1881, to Nannie K. Ness, daughter of Martin and Hannah K. Ness, and to this happy union six children were born: Clifton L. married Myrtle Pickens and they have two children, Durward B. and Bernard L.; Girt L. married Sadie McCoy; Edgar G. married Jessie Thompson, and they have two children, Margaret Evelyn and Charles Perry; Lola H. married Charles Owen, and they have two children, Virgil and William Donald; Zenia Mae married Robert Twist and they have three children, Merle Emma, Helen Lucile and Veda Mae; Henry M. Mrs. Perry L. Carter died on February 7, 1908, and some time after her death Mr. Carter married Carrie D. Gardner, daughter of Jotham and Lydia F. (Appleton) Gardner. No children have been born to this second marriage.
Politically, Mr. Carter is a Republican. He has always been interested in the educational affairs of Audubon county and has served as a school director in this county. Mr. Carter has been a successful farmer, an industrious worker and a good manager. He is well informed on public questions and takes an active interest in all matters that have any relation to the public welfare. He can always be found in the front ranks of those who are leading worthy public enterprises and his support can always be depended upon. He is a man of warm and sympathetic impulses, a good neighbor and a good citizen.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 718-719.
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