"An Illustrated history of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties : with a
brief outline of the early history of the state of Oregon." Chicago?: Western
Historical Pub. Co., 1902.  Page 510.  Grant County.

WILLIAM M. CARTER

     Among the prosperous and progressive stockmen and agriculturists that have
wrought with assiduity and energy in the worthy enterprise of subduing the wilds
of the frontier and augmenting the wealth of Grant county while they have carved
for themselves homes and names in this substantial community of wide-awake and
leading citizens, especial mention should be made of the gentleman whose name
initiates this paragraph and who has manifested both industry and integrity in
the battle of life, wherein he has been eminently successful and has set forth
an exemplary line of conduct.
     In Polk county, Tennessee, on October 1, 1844, there was born to S. B. and
Barthenia Carter, the subject of this sketch, William M. Carter.  At the age of
seven years he went with his parents to Montgomery county, Arkansas, and worked
on a farm with his father until the spring of 1863.  Then came the call of
patriotism, for his heart was with the cause, and he enlisted in Company G,
Fourth Arkansas Cavalry, volunteers, under Colonel Moore and General Runnels.
His fate was to be called to and fro largely in the state of Arkansas, where he
participated in many skirmishes and endured all the hardships of war with its
suffering and danger.  At the close of hostilities he was mustered out at Little
Rock and is now a member of the G.A.R., at Hamilton.  From the military ranks he
went to Newton county, Arkansas, and entered the ranks of its agricultural
population, where he continued until 1875, when he prepared teams and crossed
the plains to Grant county, settling at Canyon City, where he remained until
1878 and then removed to his present place, which is three miles east from
Longcreek, and took up farming and stock-raising.  Success has attended his
efforts from the beginning and he is now the proprietor of seven hundred acres
of good land, well improved.  He has a comfortable home and good barns and
orchards, while the ranch is in a high state of cultivation.
     In 1867, Mr. Carter and Miss Eliza Hudson were married and to them were
born three children:  Benjamin A., living in the Willamette valley; Sarah E.,
wife of Dudley Curl, near Sumpter; James S., near Burns, Harney county.  In
Newton county, Arkansas, in 1872, Mrs. Carter was taken from her family and
husband by death.
     On December 11, 1873, Mr. Carter and Miss Pernice P., daughter of C. C. and
Jennie Blackwell, were married and to them have been born ten children:  Mary
M., wife of C. R. Davis; Cora Maud, wife of Iven Slone, of Longcreek; Samuel B.,
married to Martha Harriman; Charles; Carrie A., wife of James M. Scroggins; John
L.; William; Leona Dell; Nellie; Jennie Esther.  Mr. Carter's mother moved with
her younger children, after the war, to Barry county, Missouri, the father
having died before the war.  Shortly after the son came to this county, the
mother removed hither and took a farm in the Fox valley, but recently she has
sold this property and lives with her children.  She is now in her eightieth
year.  Mr. Carter is one of the most successful and enterprising stockmen of the
county and is respected and esteemed by all, having ever displayed those
characteristics that are the associates of typical manhood and the bulwarks of
substantial citizenship.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in September 2005 by Diana Smith.
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