Manuscripts Collection
Theodore George Carter was born on February 28, 1832 in Friendship (Allegany County), New York, the son of Miles and Margaretta Loughborough Carter. Following an education in Yorkshire, where the family settled in 1834, and the Richburg academy (1849-1851), Carter was employed in several small New York communities as a carpenter, paperhanger, and housepainter. In 1854 he settled in Olean, New York, apprenticing as a machinist under his brother Nathan.
In the autumn of 1855 Nathan moved to Minnesota, homesteading on Lake Washington in LeSueur County the following spring. Carter soon followed his brother, obtaining employment as a surveyor and, in 1858, becoming land examiner for the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company. In September 1859 he moved to St. Peter, adding the positions of U.S. Land Office agent (1860) and clerk in the private bank of Edgerton and Donahower (1861) to his other activities. On November 12, 1860 he married Margaret "Maggie" O. Byam (1833-1912). The couple had eight children: Albert Byam (1861- ), Lolette (1863-1863), Willie (1866-1867), Anna Adelle "Dell" (1868- ), Margaret Belle (1870- ), Nona Rosa Blossom (1872- ), Theodore George (1874-1875), and Bessie J. (1877- ).
On August 13, 1862 Carter joined in the formation of the Cleveland Guard, a group of Union recruits from LeSueur County. They were mustered in at Fort Snelling on August 16, 1862 as Company K, Seventh Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, with Carter holding the rank of first lieutenant. The company served in Minnesota, mainly as guard to the Dakota prisoners taken during the U.S.-Dakota War, in the 1863 Sibley Indian expedition into Dakota Territory, and in the southern states. Carter was promoted to captain on March 8, 1863, and held that rank until the company was mustered out on August 16, 1865.
Upon his return to St. Peter he resumed his position with Edgerton and Donahower. In 1867 he left the bank to form Carter and Montgomery, a real estate and fire insurance firm, with Thomas Montgomery. He also continued in the position of Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company land examiner. In 1870 he moved to a farm near St. Peter and added a nursery business to his many activities. Due to the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s, however, he nearly reached bankruptcy and in 1883 moved back into St. Peter.
In 1880 he accepted the position of right-of-way agent with the Chicago and North Western Railroad Company (C&NWRR), successor of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company, and dissolved his partnership in Carter and Montgomery. Between 1880 and 1890 he traveled throughout Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, and Wyoming surveying and purchasing rights-of-way for the railroad.
In April 1891 he moved to Deadwood, South Dakota where he assumed the added position of right-of-way agent for the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad (FE&MVRR). He also began the private purchase, sale, and leasing of mining claims on a commission basis.
Carter retired from the C&NWRR in 1903, working as a private mining and real estate agent until he returned to St. Peter in 1905. From then until his death in 1914, he divided his time between St. Peter, Deadwood, and the homes of his children in Florida.
Carter was also very active in a number of fraternal organizations during his life, particularly the Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Temperance, and the Grand Army of the Republic, holding many offices in all three.
All biographical information was taken from the collection.
Correspondence, diaries, survey notebooks, legal documents, account books, and other personal and business papers of Carter, a St. Peter (Nicollet County, Minnesota) banker, surveyor, land examiner, and insurance and real estate agent.
There is information on his work as a land examiner for the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Co. (1858-1860s); as clerk in the private bank of Edgerton and Donahower (1861-1867); as partner with Thomas Montgomery in a real estate and fire insurance firm (1867-1880); surveying and purchasing land throughout the upper Midwest as right-of-way agent for the Chicago and North Western Railroad Co. (1880s); and as a mining and real estate agent in Deadwood, South Dakota (1891-1905).
Personal correspondence covers family, friendships, and genealogy; his service with the 7th Minnesota Infantry, Company K, during the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and the Civil War; and his membership in several fraternal organizations. Also documented are his nursery business (1870s), and his efforts to collect materials for a history of Company K and to aid its veterans in obtaining bounties and pensions.
There is a carpenter's account book (1834-1841) and justice of the peace dockets (1837-1843) of his father, Miles, in Yorkshire County, N.Y.; and record books of the Sons of Temperance, St. Peter Division (1876-1883) and the South Dakota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (1899-1906).
NOTE: all materials described in the Detailed Description of the Collection on the following pages refer to Theodore G. Carter unless specifically attributed to another person.
The collection documents a wide range of the personal, business, and civic activities of Theodore G. Carter. It consists mainly of correspondence and related papers, legal and financial documents and accounts, business records, diaries, biographical and genealogical materials, historical sketches, and organizational records.
Accession number: 4429; 5906; 11,668
Processed by: Cheryl Norenberg Thies, July 1983
Catalog ID number: 09-00040619
The bulk of the correspondence covers Carter's business and personal activities during his years in St. Peter and Deadwood. The business correspondence deals mainly with his various duties with Edgerton and Donahower, the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company, Carter and Montgomery, and the Chicago and North Western Railroad Company, and his many private ventures in surveying, real estate, nursery stock, and mining. The personal correspondence, largely between Carter and various family members and close friends, deals mainly with family, friendships, genealogy, Civil War reminiscences, and his numerous organizational memberships. These include a number of Civil War letters from Carter to Maggie (1863-1865), long-running correspondence with his son Albert, daughters Dell and Margaret in Florida and Georgia (1880s-1910s), and daughters Nona and Bessie in South Dakota (1890s-1910s). There is a series of letters with the former chaplain of the 7th Regiment, E. E. Edwards, concerning Company K's history (1890-1913). Also contained in this section are letters of Carter's father Miles, and brother Egbert (1836, 1846-1847), and letters and related papers of his children, particularly Dell and Bessie (1917-1922).
Includes Lieutenant Norman K. Culver's undated list of refugees to Fort Ridgely during the 1862 Sioux Uprising; Carter's undated manuscript concerning the effect of the Spirit Lake, Iowa massacre on southern Minnesota; correspondence of Miles (1836) and Egbert (1846-1847) Carter; a patent agreement between Miles Carter and Darius W. Harris and Egbert Carter for corn sheller improvements (Nov. 12, 1849); a letter from Carter to his mother detailing his arrival in Minnesota (Sept. 20, 1857); and Nathan's (Aug. 10) and Carter's (Nov. 1) 1859 preemption certificates for land in LeSueur County.
Contains letters between Carter and a number of clients concerning his handling of their land matters (1860-1862); a number of Civil War letters, including several from Carter to Maggie, detailing Company K's duty in Mankato (Jan. 1863), St. Louis (Oct. 1863), Kentucky (Dec. 1864), and Alabama (March 1865), one from Maggie to Carter concerning their daughter Lolette's illness (Sept. 6, 1863) and another to the Seventh Regiment's commander requesting information on Carter's location (Nov. 14, 1863), and one from Nathan in a Memphis hospital, to Carter (Nov. 3, 1864); a memorandum on Carter's illness while in the army (Oct. 17, 1864); several deeds for land in Nicollet County (1867); and letters concerning the surveying of a road in Oshawa Township, Nicollet County (Sept. 18, 1869) and the reorganization of the St. Peter Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Post (Sept. 23, 1869).
Begins correspondence concerning Carter's involvement in Carter and Montgomery (1870) and with the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company (1871). Also contains a payment receipt for surveying the Fort Ridgely Cemetery (Oct. 31, 1871); a report on the receipts of the St. Peter Division, No. 2, Sons of Temperance and Carter's election as its representative to the Grand Division annual session (Nov. 1876); scattered reports of the Sons of Temperance (1876-1878); and an invitation to the second annual reunion of the Old Settlers' Association of LeSueur County (Jan. 10, 1878).
Includes several annual railroad passes (1882); a list of Maggie's 1883 letters; letters between Carter and his son Albert (beginning in 1884) detailing life in Florida and describing Carter's land there; a December 3, 1887 affidavit from Colonel William Marshall detailing Carter's illness during the Civil War and its continuing effect on him; Carter's application for a military invalid pension (Dec. 14, 1887) and a statement on the history of his disease (Feb. 6, 1888); and correspondence with his daughter Dell in Florida (beginning in 1888) and his brother Egbert (1889).
Begins long-term correspondences with the former chaplain of the 7th Regiment, E. E. Edwards (1890) and with John McQuaide, Vicksburg, Mississippi, who fought for the Confederacy in the battle of Tupelo, Mississippi (1899). Also contains a Sundance (Wyoming) Land and Improvement Company stock certificate (1891); Carter's "soldier's declaratory statement" used in application for homestead land (Aug. 22, 1891); correspondence and deeds for his Deadwood land (1895); and a series of 1896 papers concerning the Elkhorn Mining Company, Deadwood, including a description (Jan. 28), the articles (Feb. 3) and certificate (Feb. 6) of incorporation, and a plat of the holdings (April 21-22).
Contains correspondence and memoranda on his relationship to Charles D. Carter, an Oklahoma senator (April 1901); a series of letters on the Sterling Oil Company (1901-1906); a letter detailing the shipping of Nathan's body to St. Peter (Nov. 12, 1901); several 1903 and 1904 reports of the Elkhorn Mining Company; Carter's manuscript remembrances of the Tupelo, Mississippi campaign (Feb. 11, 1904) and the December 1862 execution of the Dakota prisoners at Mankato (1904); and his notice of election as president of the South Dakota Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (March 21, 1905).
Includes letters dealing with the location of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux commemorative monument (Jan. 2), the Carter family genealogy (June 13), and Charles D. Carter (Dec. 10); as well as letters concerning the Elkhorn Mining Company (Jan.-Feb.) and Carter's Civil War recollections.
Contains more genealogical correspondence and Carter's application to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Includes an agreement to sell timber located on Elkhorn Mining Company land (Jan. 1908); correspondence detailing Carter's service as a witness in "Chicago and North Western Railroad Company vs. Burch," a water rights lawsuit, including his expenses bill (July 28, 1908); a manuscript detailing the story of John A. Humphrey, whose entire family was killed in the U.S.-Dakota War, with a foreword by Carter (June 1909); numerous letters on the Burke Stone Company (1909); notice of his election as trustee of the Sons of the American Revolution national society (June 1910); and a letter from S. VanBuren, Chadron, Nebraska, describing the recovery of Captain John S. Marsh's body during the war (Dec. 19, 1910).
Contains more genealogical correspondence; an agreement to sell all of Carter's mining land in Lead City, South Dakota (Oct. 13, 1911); a letter about Maggie's death (Aug. 9, 1912); a deed signed by Carter and Bessie assigning Maggie's St. Peter land to Nona (Sept. 26, 1912); a statement of Carter's mining property in Deadwood (Sept. 23, 1913); statements of Bessie's finances (June 1917-April 1922); and several letters by Dell concerning family affairs (1918, 1920).
The bulk of the correspondence in these volumes spans Carter's life from the post-Civil War years through his semi-retirement in St. Peter. The earlier volumes (5-12) contain mostly business correspondence; the later volumes (13-17) contain more personal letters.
The business correspondence deals mainly with Carter's many commercial ventures, especially his activities in real estate, surveying, fire insurance, horticulture, and mining. It covers his employment with Edgerton and Donahower, Carter and Montgomery, and the C&NWRR and its branch lines, as well as his many private business ventures.
The personal correspondence falls into two main categories, the first of which is with family and friends, particularly his children. These letters discuss family events, religion, health, and travels. The personal correspondence will not be further described unless it highlights a special event or subject. The second category involves Carter's efforts as a former captain to aid members of the Seventh Regiment, Company K in obtaining their bounty, back pay, and pensions, and also to collect information about the company. In the latter activity he maintained a long correspondence with the regiment's former chaplain, E. E. Edwards. Scattered throughout the volumes are also letters reflecting Carter's involvement in the Sons of Temperance and Sons of the American Revolution and numerous financial and real estate accounts. Volumes 1-6 and 8-16 also contain alphabetized indexes.
The following annotations describe each letterbook's contents in greater detail.
Contains letters for Feb. 13-Aug. 12, 1862; March 1863; and 1866-Jan. 19, 1867.
The majority of the letters detail Carter's various real estate activities, particularly paying clients' taxes and filing land patents. The few personal letters describe life in St. Peter, particularly various social events. There are no Civil War letters.
Includes the articles of agreement for Carter and Montgomery (April 12, 1867), correspondence concerning the company's survey work for a map of Nicollet County (April), and numerous Carter and Montgomery powers of attorney.
Beginning in 1868 the letters detail Carter's activities as the Winona and St. Peter Railroad land examiner. Also includes an agreement for selling "100 Family Rights for Putnam's Patent Improved Washing Compound" (June 23, 1868); letters detailing Carter and Nathan's leasing of farms in LeSueur County (Oct. 1868) and Carter's purchase of a farm near St. Peter (July 1869); and the dedication of the St. Peter Methodist Episcopal Church (Feb. 1869).
Includes the sales agreement for Carter's farm (April 29, 1870) and correspondence concerning his nursery business, especially orders for stock (1871-1875), his near bankruptcy during the grasshopper plagues (1873-1875), and inquiries into land in Florida (Feb. 1875).
Pages 265-694 are blank.
Continues inquiries into Florida land (1876) and includes correspondence on his Sons of Temperance activities (1879-1880), a trip by Maggie and Nona to the East (Aug. 1876), Nathan's death (Dec. 1878), Carter's candidacy for Minnesota state auditor on the prohibition ticket (Dec. 1878), and his employment as the C&NWRR right-of-way agent (Feb. 1880).
Includes a series of letters concerning C&NWRR land dealings (1892-1894); letters detailing his acquisition of a South Dakota placer claim deed for the FE&MVRR (Dec. 8, 1892), his ranch near Minnesela, South Dakota (1893), and the family's trip to the World's Columbian Exposition (Oct. 1893); and salary and expense accounts for C&NWRR work (Dec. 1893, Jan.-April 1894).
Contains scattered monthly salary accounts and letters about locating coal lands in Wyoming (Aug. 1894), obtaining right-of-way for the C&NWRR (March 1895), purchase of a home in Deadwood (March 1895), the beginning of his private purchase, sale, and leasing of mining claims on commission (1895), and his application to the Deadwood Board of Education for teaching positions for Nona and Bessie (May 1895).
Includes much correspondence on various railroad condemnation cases; a trip to the east coast to visit his brother Egbert (Nov. 1895); forwarding of the Elkhorn Mining Company articles of incorporation to the South Dakota secretary of state (Jan. 1896); patenting of all Carter's mining lands (March-April 1896); Bessie's attendance at the Black Hills College, Hot Springs, South Dakota (Oct. 1896); and his involvement in the Seminole Mining Group (1897).
Includes a Carter family genealogy from 1745 through 1856 (Dec. 2, 1897); a list of the birthdates of his son Albert's children (1898); letters concerning Carter's activities in the Sons of the American Revolution (April 1895); correspondence and memoranda on "C&NWRR vs. Burch," a lawsuit in which Carter was a principal witness (1898); 1898 lists of Carter family births (1723-1776), marriages, deaths, and baptisms (1698-1809), and deeds (1716-1898); and letters concerning the leasing of his ranch to the FE&MVRR (May 1899).
Contains Carter family genealogical notes (1706-1899); Carter's letter of regret for not attending the 7th Minnesota Veteran Association reunion (Sept. 1899); reservoir declaratory statements for the FE&MVRR (1897-1900); statement of mining claims and interests owned by Carter (May 11, 1900); Carter's maternal genealogy (1900); and correspondence concerning the visit to Deadwood of Alford's 12-year-old son Nathan (Oct. 1900).
Mainly family correspondence, especially with his children in Deadwood, Florida, and Georgia. Includes a statement on his Cherokee relatives (1901) and letters on the Pioneer Townsite Company (May 1901) and a trip to Florida (April-June 1902).
Volume entries are written in the following order: Aug. 4, 1902 - Feb. 13, 1904 (p. 1-479); July-Sept. 21, 1905 (written from Sept. backward to July, p. 496-523); and Feb. 17, 1904 - July 24, 1905 (p. 530-999).
Contains letters concerning Carter's lawsuit with the Oro Hondo Mining Company (1902-1904), and his involvement in the Sons of the American Revolution (1903-1904) and the Elite Laundry Company (1905); letters about his grandson Nathan's death (Nov. 13, 1902), Carter's railroad career (Feb. 17, 1903), his resignation from the C&NWRR (May 1903), and Egbert's death (April 1904); a series of Civil War remembrances with E. E. Edwards (1905); descriptions of his land and lifestyle in Florida (1905); a statement of his indebtedness (March 28, 1905); and more genealogical notes (1905).
Also contains many of Carter's historical manuscripts, including those detailing the campaign of Tupelo, Mississippi (Feb. 1904, p. 479-495), the 1763 massacre of several Carter family members in Pennsylvania (p. 524-527), the battle of Nashville, Tennessee (p. 703-706), the 1863 Sibley Indian expedition (p. 746-748), and military matters during his boyhood (p. 914-917).
Pages 26-432 are blank.
Pages 1-25 contain references to the campaign of Tupelo, Mississippi
as found in the "War of the Rebellion Records." Pages 433-499
contain letters, written from the back of the volume forward.
Includes Carter's review of an article in
These volumes consist mainly of Carter's business records; there are a few personal accounts. Many of the volumes also contain scattered diary entries, the majority written to highlight various business ventures, journeys, and special family events. The volumes fall into three basic groups: those covering Carter's early life and employments in New York (volumes 18-22); those detailing his early St. Peter years, particularly his real estate, fire insurance, and nursery activities (volumes 23-33); and those dealing with his Deadwood and later St. Peter years, especially his railroad and mining ventures (volumes 34-59). The following annotations highlight special events, or subjects, or any additional data found in each volume. (NOTE: Some of volumes 60-92 [Personal Financial Recrods] contain similar expense accounts and financial notations.)
Contains diary entries (Jan. 1-May 8, 1849) detailing Carter's employment in a New York furniture factory; assorted survey notes, including those for an unidentified school section (May-July 1867); and a description of a trip through New York (Dec., no year).
Includes expense records (incomplete) for Carter (1851), his brother Nathan (1850), and his father Miles (1851).
Includes miscellaneous employment records from New York (1853-1855) and Civil War quartermaster lists for 7th Regt., Co. K (1863).
Miscellaneous employment and expense records from New York (1854-1856, incomplete) and weekly expense records from St. Peter (1866-1867, incomplete).
Includes incomplete and unidentified employment (time worked) records.
Contains diary entries (Aug. 1-Sept. 25, 1864) detailing fighting at Holly Springs, Tennessee and Carter's hospitalization at Memphis, Tennessee during the Civil War, and an unidentified expense record (Jan. 1864-June 15, 1865).
Includes reports on sales of New York Accidental Insurance Company policies (Aug., Oct. 1866).
Mainly diary entries.
Mainly financial accounts with various employees.
Daily financial entries, also including temperature recordings and scattered diary entries. The majority of the latter detail Carter's business travels in South Dakota.
Entries are written from the rear of the volume forward. Includes descriptions of an Omaha, Nebraska speech on women's suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (Dec. 3, 1888), and a trip to Florida (Feb. 1889). Also contains numerous addresses and real estate notations.
Includes a list of all Carter's assets (Jan. 31-Feb. 1) and a monthly record of meal and lodging expenses (Jan. 1-Oct. 22).
Includes a number of scattered entries concerning Florida.
Describes a robbery at the family's St. Peter home (June 27).
Includes a list of Carter's mining land (Nov. 9).
Includes a description of electric lights being put into the Deadwood house (Nov. 16).
Includes Carter family genealogical material.
Details his 70th birthday (Feb. 23) and his grandson Nathan's death (Nov. 11).
Mainly diary entries, particularly documenting a tour of Civil War battlesites where he had fought with Company K. Also some real estate notes.
Contains diary entries made while in Florida (June 20-25).
Details a trip to Bemidji (Aug. 13), the Minnesota Seventh Veteran Association reunion (Sept. 1), and the sale of the Deadwood house (Nov. 24).
Describes the death of his brother Egbert (April 18).
Contains daily diary entries made while in Florida (Nov. 19-May 2).
Includes daily weather entries.
Diary entries regarding weather, health, social activities, and his children's activities; no financial data.
Incomplete series of Carter's personal financial records, including daily expenses and income, taxes, banking transactions, and insurance coverage. See also Account Books and Diaries series (volumes 18-59) for related materials.
Includes an alphabetized index.
Lists daily expenses and income.
Pocket ledger, including an alphabetized index.
Seems to be Carter's bank account.
Daily expenses and income.
Includes family insurance records.
These nonfinancial volumes detail in particular Carter's surveying, real estate, and mining activities. Many concern his positions with Edgerton and Donahower, Carter and Montgomery, and the C&NWRR. The following annotations contain detailed descriptions of each volume's content. Where present, Carter's original volume titles have been placed in quotation marks.
Record of time worked for various Olean, New York employers (1854-1856) and for Donahower, St. Peter (1867).
Mainly survey notes of an unidentified area.
Contains survey notes done near St. Peter (Dec. 7, 13-16, 1858; May 24-July 18, 1859) and from Carter's U.S. government survey of Traverse des Sioux (April 6, 1887). Also includes a few 1859 financial notes.
Mainly notes on water levels in Nicollet County.
Daily record of receipts and disbursements begun on their first day of business. Includes rent accounts (May 1868-Aug. 1869).
Includes notes on railroad surveying in southern Minnesota (April-May 1868) and survey notes and nursery stock orders (1872-1873). Some of the latter survey notes are labelled New Ulm and Sleepy Eye.
Notes and plat maps of areas in Nicollet and Sibley counties. Also contains notes on the sale of the above areas through 1875.
Right-of-way survey notes, including details on the purchase of the areas surveyed.
Includes notes on a timber survey done near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin (May 12-June 29, 1870?) and surveys of the Kasota (Minnesota) Road (1878) and Park Row (possibly in St. Peter, 1873).
Continues the Wisconsin timber survey notes (Oct. 1-3).
Most likely survey data for the Winona and St. Peter Railroad. An expense account appears in the back of the volume.
Contains expense accounts for a trip to Florida (Jan. 4-7) and while surveying private land in that state (March 3-April 1); survey notes for land near Abbyville, Dakota Territory (June 7-14); and in the back of the volume, two expense records labelled "Hawardin, D. T." (June 30-July 7) and "Trip to Chicago for C&NRyCo." (July 27-Sept. 6).
Includes comments on purchase of the areas surveyed.
Right-of-way notes concerning purchase of land in Lincoln and Lyon counties, Minnesota. Possibly for the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company.
Survey and right-of-way notes for land in Brown County, Minnesota.
Includes survey notes of an unnamed townsite (1884), an unidentified expense record (Sept. 4, 1884-Feb. 11, 1885), and notes entitled "Town Sites of Watertown on the Big Sioux Branch, Deadwood Central Railway, Aug. 1884."
Complete survey and right-of-way notes and plat maps for an unidentified area.
Includes "Tree Claims taken by J. A. Sedgwick, A. K. Gault, and John Cressy" in an unidentified area and notes on lands leased by the FE&MVRR for reservoir, sheepshearing, and dipping pens (1897).
For work done on the Deadwood to Spearfish, South Dakota, "Minnesota Extension." Includes also a "Diary of Board and Lodging" (May 1-Oct. 17, 1890).
Notes right-of-way purchases on lines entitled "Minnesota Extension" and "Deadwood Branch".
For unidentified area; possibly kept by a person named Laub. Includes expense record.
For unidentified area. Includes expense record.
Carter's seven appointments as a notary public in Nicollet County (1865, 1867, 1869, 1871, 1873, 1881, 1884).
Two notebooks recording Carter's nursery stock sales and purchases (1875-1876, 1877-1878) and two that record his grape purchases, sales, and propagation (1875, 1879). The 1875 volume also includes Carter's financial statement as of November 20, 1875.
Includes notes on location, and expenses and receipts. Arranged by mine title or group.
Contains two manuscripts detailing Carter's genealogy and life. The first (undated, 10 leaves) traces his paternal genealogy from the 1700s through the 1860s and contains an autobiographical sketch from age two (1834) through 1903. The second, "Early Days in Minnesota" (1858-1860, 42 leaves), covers Carter's life from October 31, 1858 through October 22, 1860, particularly his early years on Lake Washington, surveying near St. Peter, his courtship of Maggie, and his involvement with the other settlers, especially his brother Nathan.
Carter was a charter member of this organization, which was founded on February 3, 1876.
The membership roll includes the admission date, member's signature, age, occupation, residence, manner of admission, and remarks.
Carter served on the board of managers (1899) and as secretary (1900), secretary and register (1901), and president and register (1903-1906) of this group formed in 1899.
Contains the constitution, amendments, bylaws, and minutes of annual meetings (April 23, 1899-Feb. 22, 1906).
Includes an alphabetized index. Pages 24-299 are blank.
Carpenter's account book, with alphabetized index kept by Carter's father. This volume was restored in 1983. All extraneous materials affixed to its pages were removed and are now housed in a folder in Box 3.
Each item is accompanied by a photocopy showing its original location in the volume.
For "staats." Contains mainly marriage and indenture records.
Includes notes made by Bessie.