Thomas M. Carter (Biography)

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler

THOMAS M. CARTER, farmer, P.O. Howard, was born in Crawford County, Ill., 1849.  January 1863, enlisted in the Ninety-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served two years and seven months.  After receiving his discharge, he located at Decatur, Ill., and then back to his old home, and in January 1869, migrated to Kansas, locating in Howard county before the county was organized, and located a claim on Section 7, Township 29, Range 11, on the Elk River.  He has 240 acres of land, one-fourth mile from the town site of Howard.  At the time of settlement it was 150 miles from a railroad and had to go that distance for feed and provisions.  Mr. Carter has fenced 200 acres, has about thirty acres of timber, two acres of orchard and is raising stock, has one of the best stock farms on the river.  In 1875, was married in Howard Township to Miss Catherine Moore.  They have four children--Noble, J.B., Samuel C. and R. S.  Is a member of E. M. Stanton Post, No 23, G.A.R., and of Hope Lodge, No. 155, A.F. & A.M.