U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Carter, John T. (1850-1936) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Men of West Virginia, Volume II Biographical Publishing Company George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas. Chicago, Illinois, 1903 Pages 695-696 JOHN T. CARTER, A. M., M. D., has been located in practice at Triadelphia, Ohio County, since 1878. He was born on a farm in Ohio County, Virginia, now West Virginia, which his father also claimed as his birth-place. His grandfather purchased this farm at an early day, and it has remained in the possession of members of the family for more than one hundred years. Richard Carter, the Doctor's father, was born in 1813, and died at the age of 74 years. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and his ancestors came to this country long before the Revolutionary period. Dr. John T. Carter prepared at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1871, from Princeton College at Princeton, New Jersey. He then completed a course in the study of medicine in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. Through a competitive examination, he became resident physician at the Good Samaritan Hospital in that city, and subsequently rose to the position of physician in charge. He then served as assistant superintendent and physician in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1878, he located in Triadelphia, and formed a partnership with Dr. J. H. Storer, who had been engaged in practice there for 30 years. This association continued about 10 years, and since then Dr. Carter has practiced alone. He is a man of high character and enjoys to a marked degree the confidence and esteem of his patients and of his fellow citizens in general. He has mastered his profession in a manner that has brought him prominence in the community and well deserved success. During his residence in Cincinnati, he gained through a competitive examination the Bartholow prize. He is a member of the West Virginia Medical Society, and an honorary member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Fraternally, he has been a member of Triadelphia Lodge, No. 49, I. O. O. F., for 19 years, has passed through the different chairs, and upon two occasions was sent as a representative to the Grand Lodge. Dr. Carter was married, in 1885, to Harriet Webb, a daughter of Dr. J. W. and Mary (Shumate) Webb. Dr. Webb, who was a minister of the Gospel for more than 50 years, and who died at the age of 70 years, was a noted Methodist Episcopal minister of West Virginia, and was presiding elder for many years. Dr. and Mrs. Carter have one child, a daughter Grace, who was born in September, 1888. They are members of the Stone Presbyterian Church. In 1898, the Doctor built a l0- room house, of two and a half stories; it is equipped in modern style, has a private water system, gas heaters in each room, and is the best residence in Triadelphia. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH CERTIFICATE, Ohio County WV, #4569 FULL-NAME: Dr. John T. Carter BIRTH-DATE: November 19, 1850 BIRTH-PLACE: Ohio Co., W.Va. DEATH-DATE: March 6, 1936 AGE-AT-DEATH: 85y-3m-27d DEATH-PLACE: (home) National Road, Triadelphia, Ohio County, WV USUAL-RESIDENCE: National Road, Triadelphia, Ohio County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married (Harriet Webb Carter) OCCUPATION: Physician FATHER: Richard Carter (born in Ohio Co., W.Va.) MOTHER: Margaret Farris (born in Ohio Co., W.Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: 1) Emp?? gall bladder; 2) Ch. Nephritis; 3) Myocarditis; 4) Old age INFORMANT: Mrs. Harriett Carter (of Triadelphia) BURIAL: Gree. Mausoleum (wife of John T. Carter) DEATH CERTIFICATE, Ohio County WV, #18271 FULL-NAME: Harriett Webb Carter BIRTH-DATE: January 29, 1857 BIRTH-PLACE: Weston, W.Va. DEATH-DATE: December 1, 1937 AGE-AT-DEATH: 80y-10m-2d DEATH-PLACE: National Road, Triadelphia, Ohio County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed (John T. Carter) OCCUPATION: at home FATHER: Rev. J. Wesley Webb (born in Virginia) MOTHER: Mary Shumate (born in Virginia) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Carcinoma right breast; Metastatic Carcinoma of lung INFORMANT: Miss Grace Carter (of Triadelphia, W.Va.) BURIAL: Greenwood Mauso. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ohio County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ohio/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------