Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 90

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856

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McNair ran out into the crowd and com- manded the peace, Palmer gave him a knock-out blow, landing him some distance away. About 1830 Palmer removed to Texas, took part in her war for independence, and at its close was chosen a member of the council of the republic, on account, it is to be presumed, of his experience in statecraft in Missouri. January 2, 1833, the Legisla- ture passed an act organizing the County of Carroll. John Morse, Felix Redding and Elias Guthrie were appointed a committee to select the county seat. The first circuit court was held at the residence of Nathaniel Carey, about ten miles east of Carrollton, the Honorable John F. Ryland presiding. Joseph Dickson, then county clerk, was appointed by the judge, clerk of the circuit court. John Curl was sheriff. Only two attorneys, John Wilson and Amos Rees, were entitled and permitted to practice. The various terms of the court continued to be held at Cary's house until the July term of 1834, which was held at the residence of John Standley, as were the two successive terms. The first term held in the courthouse of the county was on June 25. 1835, the courthouse having just been completed. Among the various judges and attorneys who, in the early days, presided at these sittitngs or practiced in the courts, and who afterward became more or less famous, may be mentioned, Alexander W. Doniphan, Thomas E. Burch, James A. Clark, George W. Dunn, Robert C. Ewing, Robert D. Ray, Austin A. King and Peter H. Burnett, the last named afterward first gov- ernor of California. On the 4th of February, 1833, at the house of Nathaniel Carey, the county court was organized: the justices were Thomas Hardwick, William Curl and William Crockett. Joseph Dickson was ap- pointed county clerk, and John Curl was sworn in as sheriff and Rial Bryant as coroner. The court ordered the clerk to issue six blank licenses for ferries, six for venders of merchandise, six for retailers of spirituous liquors and three for peddlers of clocks and other wares. Thus was inaug- urated and put in motion the legal machinery of Carroll County. The present courthouse was built in 1868. It was built as a wing of a contemplated structure much larger and grander than the house now standing. but the plan of the larger structure has never been carried out and the old building still serves

its purpose as the temple of justice. The original bill for the organization of the county provided that it be named Wakenda, but before action upon it was taken the death of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, (who died November 14, 1832), was announced and in his honor the name was changed to Carroll County. The settlement founded by John Standley was made the seat of justice and the place was called Carrollton, after the home of Charles Carroll, the noted signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1836 the county seat was described as a "small place, eight miles from Caton's Landing." At that time it did not contain a courthouse and the only store in the county was at the mouth of the Wakenda. Wetmore, in his "Gazetteer," published in 1837, stated that at the mouth of the Wakenda was "a good place for a pork house." Carrollton was not platted as a town until 1837. It was incor- porated in 1847, and reincorporated in 1865. During the Civil War, Carroll County fur- nished for the Federal service, Company M. Seventh Cavalry, Missouri State Militia- captain, Oscar B. Quenn, who enlisted as a private, was promoted through the various ranks, and was mustered out as captain in the spring of 1865, with Company K, Twenty- third Missouri Infantry Volunteers. All the officers and men of the last named com- pany, except the captain, were from Carroll County. There were also a large number of enlisted men from Carroll County who served in other regiments. To the Confederate Army the county furnished Company C of Slack's Fourth Division, Missouri State Guard, H. B. Breuster, captain ; the Carroll- ton Light Infantry, Company B of the First Infantry, Missouri State Guard: Company E of Slack's Division: Company H, Third Regiment, Polk's Corps, and a large list who served in other commands. Carroll County is divided into twenty-two townships, named, respectively. Carrollton, Cherry Valley, De Witt. Combs, Egypt. Eugene, Fairfield, Hill, Hurricane. Leslie, Miami, Moss Creek, Prairie. Ridge, Rockford, Smith, Stokes Mound, Sugar Tree, Trotter. Van Horn. Wakenda and Washington. The assessed valuation of real estate and town lots in the county in 1899 was $5,597.971 ; estimated full value, $16,793.913 ; assessed value of personal property, including stocks, bonds, etc., $2,290,442 ; estimated full value, $5,726,105;

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assessed value of merchants and manufac- turers, $239,650; estimated full value, $479. 300; assessed value of railroads and tele- graph. $1.335.008.49. There are 91.44 miles of railroad in the county, the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City, running from Carrollton in a northeastwardly direction. leaving the county at the northeast corner ; the Wabash, entering the county near the junction of the Grand and Missouri Rivers on the eastern border, and passing west- wardly through Carrollton and leaving the county a little north of the southwest corner, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe enter- ing the county a little north of the southwest corner, passing through Carrollton, and run- ning in a northeastwardly direction, leaving the county a little north of the center of the eastern line. The number of schools in the county in 1898 was one hundred and twenty- eight ; the number of teachers employed one hundred and sixty-eight; the number of pupils enrolled, 8,400; amount of permanent school fund, both township and county, $98,- 155.06. The population of the county in 1900 was 26,455.

Carrollton .- The judicial seat of Carroll County, a city operating under special char- ter, situated near the center of the county, on the Wabash, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Kansas City branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads, sixty-six miles from Kansas City, one hun- dred and twenty-four miles from Jefferson City, and two hundred and eleven miles from St. Louis. The city is located on the Mis- souri River bluffs, at a considerable elevation. affording an extended view of the river bot- toms for many miles. John Standley was the first settler, and made the first improvements on the site of the present city and donated the site for the courthouse. George W. Folger, who located there in 1832. was the first physician in the town, and the first school was conducted by Mrs. Nancy Folger. Joseph Dickson was appointed the first post- master in 1834. The town was laid out in 1833, incorporated in 1847. and the charter under which it now operates bears date of March 20, 1871. It has been the seat of jus- tice since the organization of the county. It has well graded and shaded streets, and is compactly built. It has two fine school buildings, costing $50,000, and a school for

colored children. There are ten churches in the city-Catholic, Baptist. Christian, German Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian. Methodist Episcopal. Methodist Episcopal South, and two churches supported by the colored resi- dents. The various leading fraternal orders have lodges in the town, the Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias having fine halls. There is an opera house, three banks. two touring mills, a wooden mill, foundry and machine shop, steam laundry, brick and tile works, brick works, a wagon factory, harness factory, two cigar factories, three hotels, two newspapers, the "Republican Record" and the "Democrat," and about one hundred other business places, including stores, lum- ber and coal yards, and shops. The city has electric lights, waterworks, a well equipped fire department, a telephone system, and all the improvements generally found in a pro- gressive city. The population in 1900 was 3.8.54.

Carson, Norman B., surgeon, was born November o. 1844, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, son of James O. and Barbara (Bruce) Carson. Ilis paternal grandfather. James Carson, was the leading member of the bar of Philadelphia, and the Carson family is one of the old families of the "City of Broth- erly Love." Dr. Carson received his aca- demic education in private schools and in Washington University, of St. Louis. He then studied medicine and was graduated from St. Louis Medical College in 1868. Immediately afterward. he began the practice of his profession in that city, giving his atten- tion, like most young physicians, to general practice during the earlier years of his pro- fessional life. Ile had, however, a natural fondness for surgery, and gradually drifted into this branch of professional work, to which he now devotes his entire time and attention. He was complimented by his "alma mater" in being appointed to the chair of clinical surgery in that institution only a few years after he had gone out of it with his doctor's degree. As a surgeon he has attained an enviable reputation, and his mod- est bearing under all circumstances has served to further commend him, both to his professional brethren and to the general pub- lic. For many years he took an active interest in military affairs and he has served as surgeon of the First Regiment of the

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National Guard of Missouri, with the rank of major. He married, in 1888, Miss Susie R. Glasgow, daughter of William Glasgow, Jr., of St. Louis.

Cartabona, Don Silvio de, who was acting Lieutenant Governor at St. Louis for a period of three months in the latter part of the year 1780, was born in Spain, entered the Spanish military service and had attained the rank of lieutenant in the "Stationary Regi- ment of Louisiana." He was stationed at Ste. Genevieve when summoned to St. Louis by Governor Leyba, then on his death-bed. He witnessed Leyba's will. received from him instructions relative to the conduct of public affairs, and was vested with authority to act as Lieutenant Governor until the office should be regularly filled by appointment. He resigned his authority to Lieutenant Gov- ernor Cruzat, when the latter returned to St. Louis commissioned to enter upon a second term of service.

Carter, Charles J., president of the C. J. Carter Lumber Company, of Kansas City, was born June 9. 1862, at Keokuk, Iowa. His parents were Sylvester and Eliza Jean- nette (Wilcox) Carter. the former a native of Massachusetts, and the latter of Connecticut. The father removed, in 1854, to Keokuk, where he was engaged in the lumber busi- ness until 1899, when he retired; he is yet living, at the age of eighty-one years, with his mental faculties unimpaired, in compan- ionship with the wife of his youth. The son, Charles J. Carter, was educated in the com- mon schools of his native town. When of suitable age, he made his beginning in the business which has been his life work, as an employe of the lumber firm of S. C. & S. Carter, at Keokuk ; his father was the junior member of the firm, and his uncle was the senior member. In 1886 he relinquished this employment, and removed to Kansas City, Missouri, where he established a lumber busi- ness under his own individual name. In 1896, on the admission of partners, the firm incorporated under the name of the C. J. Carter Lumber Company, and Mr. Carter was elected to the presidency, a position which he occupies at the present time. He is also president of the Doniphan Lumber Company, at Doniphan, Missouri, and the Saline River Lumber Company, at Draughon,

Arkansas. These corporations are both affil- iated with the C. J. Carter Lumber Company, through which their products are marketed. The Carter Lumber Company are heavy operators in white and yellow pine and cypress lumber, and their transactions reach almost every section of the country, much of the trade being supplied direct from the sawmills, the aggregate annual capacity of which is about 30,000,000 feet. To those characteristics which mark the enterprising and successful man of affairs, Mr. Carter unites those personal traits which command the confidence and esteem of those with whom he is associated. He is a Republican in politics, but seeks no personal preferment. Mr. Carter was married June 8, 1885, to Miss Cora Belknap Bridges, who was educated in private seminaries in Keokuk, Iowa, and Tarrytown, New York. Her father, Samuel Bridges, of Keokuk, Iowa, was post trader at Fort Lyon, Colorado, under the adminis- tration of President Grant; under the first legislation providing headstones for soldiers' graves at the expense of the national govern- ment, he became contractor, and his work is found in all national cemeteries which were in existence at that time. Margaret, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Carter, is a pupil in Miss Barstow's private school in Kansas City, Missouri.

Carter, Charles Leonidas, retired physician, surgeon and author, was born in Dayton, Ray County, Tennessee, (then Smith's Cross Roads), March 1, 1832, son of William and Ruth Baker (McFarland) Car- ter. His father, a native of Virginia, was descended from an early family of the Old Dominion, which traced its ancestry back to Landon Carter. The family was repre- sented in the Revolution. William Carter, who spent much of his life trading in horses and mules, was sheriff of Bradley County, Tennessee, at the time of his death. The education of Dr. C. L. Carter, begun in the common schools of Tennessee and Pleasant Hill, Missouri, was supplemented by a long and thorough course of study at home. He located at Pleasant Hill in 1851, engaging in teaching and the study of medicine. Subse- quently he passed the examination in chem- istry and the other natural sciences at Wash- ington University, and in 1858 was awarded a certificate by the St. Louis Medical Col-

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lege. Four years later he was graduated in the regular course prescribed by that insti- tution. After a year's practice at Pleasant Hill, he removed to Holden, Missouri, March 1, 1859, where he was continuously engaged in professional work for thirty years. Since the expiration of that period he has lived in retirement in Warrensburg. Missouri, with the exception of three years spent at Eklor- ado Springs, Missouri. In April, 1863. he entered the Federal Army as assistant sur- geon of the Sixth Cavalry, Missouri State Militia, having passed an examination twen- ty-four degrees above the requirements pre- scribed by law. He was assigned to the surgeoncy of the Twenty-first Regiment, Mis- souri Infantry, but declined, preferring to be associated with the men whom he knew and who desired him with them. He remained in the army until after the fall of Atlanta. with the exception of three months spent at home on account of illness, and after his re- covery served as acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army. Part of this time he was in charge of a ward in Clay General Hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, and the remainder of the period he had charge of the sick and wounded officers of the Seventeenth Corps at Marietta, Georgia. Dr. Carter has kept fully abreast of the advance of the science of medicine. He has taken nine courses of special study in the St. Louis Medical College, and one winter in Bellevue Hospital Medical College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York. He has been a voluminous contributor to med- ical literature, and has also written numerous monthly scientific serials. For four years he was a regular contributor to the "American Phrenological Journal" and the "Missouri Valley Monthly." and for over a year was editor of the St. Louis "Clinical Record." In 1868 he published "Carter's General Pathol- ogy and Its Relation to Practical Medicine." now in its second edition, which was made a text-book in the St. Louis Medical College and is now used in various medical colleges. Though he has had a large general practice in medicine and surgery, he established many years ago a high reputation as a gynecolo- gist. As a medical contributor he has for years held a high position. He is identified with the Missouri State Medical Society, and under President Harrison's administration was for two years a member of the board of

pension examiners at Eldorado Springs. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar in Ma- sonry and an Odd Fellow. He has exten- sive farming interests and has bought and sold a vast quantity of real estate during his life time. Dr. Carter was originally a Dem- ocrat. After the war he became a Repub lican and affiliated with that party until 19oo. when his anti-imperialism sentiments induced him to ally himselt with the Democracy. In 1882 he was the Republican nominee for Representative in the Legislature, and. though defeated, ran ahead of the balance of his ticket. He was married February 24. 1875. to Virginia Haynes, a native of John- son County, Missouri, and a daughter of James Haynes. a native of Tennessee and an early settler of that county. They are the parents of two children. Charles Landon. the well known comedian, and Cora Ive Carter.

Carter, Francis Marion, lawyer, was born near Van Buren, now in Carter County, Missouri, November 28, 1839, son of Zimri Allen and Clementine (Chilton) Carter .. Benjamin Carter, father of Zimri A., and grandfather of Francis M. Carter, was born in Virginia and was a descendant of King Carter, and a member of the family of Carters related to the family of Robert E. Lee, and to the Harrison and Randolph families. Ile was one of the first settlers in the Current River country, where he took up land for the purpose of stock-raising. Previous to his settlement in Missouri, his son, Zimri Allen Carter, was born in Laurens District. South Carolina, in 1704. Colonel Thomas Chilton, the maternal grandfather of Frances Marion Carter, was a descendant of one of the eleven Chilton brothers who came to America and helped in the colonization of Maryland with Lord Baltimore. The wife of Colonel Chil- ton was a daughter of Shadrach Inman, some of whose ancestors became prominent and wealthy in east Tennessee by fostering numerous manufacturing enterprises, and well known as the founders of the Inman line of ocean steamships. Colonel Thomas Chilton was one of the pioneers in the Cur- rent River country, and his daughter Clem- entine became the wife of Zimri A. Carter. who became prominent in Missouri, and after whom Carter County was named upon its organization, in 1859. Francis M. Carter.

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son of Zimri A. Carter, attended Arcadia College, where he took a preparatory course, after which he commenced studies at the State University at Columbia, Missouri, and subsequently graduated with distinction from the collegiate department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1862, having completed the course in mathematics, Greek, Latin and the modern languages. Always of a studious nature, Mr. Carter steadily advanced along the path of knowl- edge by extensive reading, giving close attention to political and economic sciences, logic and metaphysics, and has long been recognized as one of the most finished clas- sical scholars and learned thinkers in south- eastern Missouri. After leaving college, he commenced the study of law under Judge William Carter and Honorable John F. Bush, of Farmington, Missouri, two of the most learned lawyers of the State, the latter recog- nized not alone as a man of great legal knowledge, but accomplished in the classics and in modern literature in general. After completing his law studies at Farmington, Francis M. Carter, in 1869, was licensed to " practice in the courts and at once entered into active work and soon became recognized as a lawyer of ability and one who, by excel- lent judgment, integrity and unquestioned honesty, gained and retained the confidence of his brother members of the bar, his clients, and the respect of those who were opposed to him. Frequently, by members of the bar, he has been elected special judge to try cases when the regular judge has been disqualified or unable to sit on the bench. He has always been prominent in affairs of St. Fran- cois County. From 1870 to 1872 he was superintendent of public schools ; was prose- cuting attorney from January 1, 1873, to January 1, 1881, four successive terms. While prosecuting attorney, by way of fines in mis- demeanor cases and suits for back taxes due from the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South- ern Railroad, he recovered more than thirty thousand dollars for the county. He prose- cuted and convicted Charles Il. Hardin for murder in the first degree in 1880. Hardin was executed at Farmington, in February, 1880, and was the only man ever legally hanged in St. Francois County. The press of Missouri, particularly the St. Louis "Globe- Democrat," highly complimented Judge Carter for his skillful prosecution of this case,

and his general ability as a prosecuting offi- cer. In 1882 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Thirty- second General Assembly and took an active part in the doings of that body. The farmers of the House organized for the purpose of securing desired legislation and preventing the enactment of vicious laws, and Judge Carter was the counselor in all matters and generally their speaker in the assembly. He was one of the leading participants in the arguments over the passage of the bill creat- ing a commission to assist the Supreme Court in clearing its crowded docket, and his argu- ment was considered the ablest that was made on that occasion, and decided the con- test in the House, he organizing the farmers in support of the bill. Ever since he became a voter he has affiliated with the Democratic party, though he has ever been controlled in political matters by principle, not by preju- dice. He believes that where patriotism and partyism conflict, the voter should be controlled by patriotism. His general course has never been to vote for or support a candidate for office whom he has reason to believe is corrupt. He was once presented as a candidate for circuit judge and came near being nominated. He was defeated, although the public were with him, by the politicians. He was brought out as a candi- date for the Democratic nomination for Con- gress by the producing classes of his district and was defeated by the course of the Demo- cratic committees in calling meetings in every county so as to aid his opponent, although a large majority of his party favored his nomination. Again, when a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress, he was defeated by the committee of his own county in setting aside the result when he first car- ried the county by a handsome majority in May, 1892, and by compelling him to carry it again in August, 1892, and by putting off the meetings to choose delegates to the Pied- mont Convention in September, 1892. The committee of his own county, with but few exceptions, were under the control of politi- cians of the Thirteenth Congressional Dis- triet, who influenced them to resort to unfair methods to prevent Judge Carter from carry- ing his county. In his own county he was held in a contest which lasted three months, before he could have the opportunity to demonstrate his ability to carry the county.

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In the meantime statements were being sent throughout the district that he would not be able to carry his county in the mass meetings. He had carried Carter County, and when the time for the township meetings came, he gave his opponent a Waterloo defeat in his county. In 1896 Judge Carter was again called upon to be a Democratic candidate for the nomina- tion to Congress. His nomination depended upon his ability to carry a certain county in his district, but certain Democratic commit- teemen of that county, whose duty it was to see that Mr. Carter received impartial treatment, espoused the cause of a certain other candidate and defeated the nomination of Judge Carter. During the Civil War. Judge Carter, on account of trouble produced by overstudy and sedentary habits, was exempted from service. However, he was at the seat of war during the entire rebellion and was in equally as much danger as if he were in the fieldl as a soldier. Ile is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, having joined that denomination when he was a student at Arcadia College in Octo- ber, 1856, and since 1804 has been a prom- inent member of the church at Farmington, having a number of times been a delegate to the district and annual conferences of the church and having held the positions of trustee and superintendent of the Sunday- school. In fraternal orders he is a member of the Knights of Honor and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and has held important offices in these lodges. June 20. 1877, Judge Carter was married to Miss Maria A. P. McAnally, the accomplished daughter of Rev. Dr. D. R. MeAnally, who was for thirty years editor of the St. Louis "Christian Advocate," and was for many years one of the most influential and re- spected members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and highly active in its coun- cils. Mrs. Carter's mother was a niece of Mrs. Governor Frances Preston, of Virginia. Governor Preston was her guardian after the death of her mother, who was a daughter of Mrs. General Russell, who was a sister of Patrick Henry. Mrs. Carter's mother was a first cousin of General Albert Sidney John- ston and Joseph E. Johnston. When Dr. McAnally was president of the Methodist Female College, at Knoxville, Tennessee. Albert Sidney Johnston was a captain in the Regular Army of the United States and for

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Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 90

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n Publication date: 1901 Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors Number of Pages: 856

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856