Cater, Edward H.

CATER

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Date: 9/16/2019 at 15:42:45

Edward H. Cater

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.334)
EDWARD H. CATER, of section 1, Carson Township, was born in Belmont Co., Ohio, August 7, 1855, son of James CATER, a native of the same place whose family were early settlers of that part of Ohio. They were formerly Quakers or Friends. Our subject's mother, nee Susan PERRY, was a daughter of Jesse and Malinda (POOLE) PERRY, the former a native of Ohio and a relative of Commodore Perry, and latter was a native of Virginia. The parents moved to Bureau Co. where they lived until their deaths. They reared 7 children.

Edward, the eldest of four sons and three daughters was about two years of age when his parents moved to Bureau County, Illinois, in the spring of 1857 settling northeast of Princeton, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, near Malden. The father lived there until his death, which occurred in 1858 and the mother still lives on the same place where they first settled in 1857. The subject of this sketch resided in Bureau Co. until he came to Pottawattamie Co. and bought his present farm of 80 acres of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Company, which is located one and a half miles east of Carson. He built a good frame house in 1889 and everything about the place shows the thrift and energy of the proprietor.

He was married December 1877 to Miss Mary L. BELKNAP, who was born and educated in Bureau Co., Illinois, and the daughter of Eli and Mary BELKNAP; the father was a native of New York and the other of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. CATER have three children: Roy Austin, Claude Gaston, and Edna Mary. They lost their first born, Lena Leota, by death when an infant. Politically Mr. Cater is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a teacher and assistant superintendent of the Sabbath school in which he takes an active interest.