CARTER, WILLIAM

CARTER, CROSE

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Date: 6/1/2005 at 11:48:39

Biography reproduced from page 492 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

William Carter was born June 2, 1831, in Lawrence Co., Penn., where he lived until 1853, and then came to Kossuth Co., Iowa. In 1857 he bought 160 acres of good land on section 30, township 95, range 28, where he has since lived and carried on a general farming business. He has held the offices of township trustee and justice of the peace, also is a member of the Order of Free Masons, Prudence Lodge, No. 205, Algona. He was married in June, 1864, to Martha Crose, born in Indiana. She died April 1, 1882, leaving five children—Mary E., George, Henrietta, Lucy and Abram.