Biographical Sketches
A.M. CARTER, M.D.
One of the ablest representatives of the medical profession in Kansas City, is a native of Ohio, born in Dresden, February 15, 1840, son of Ezekiel and Rebecca (Bryant) Carter, who were natives of Parker county, Virginia. The father of our subject was a farmer by occupation and he removed to Columbus, Indiana, in 1850, at which place his death occurred in 1873. Mrs. Carter died in 1856. They had a family of 8 children, 4 of whom are living, our subject being their youngest child. He was reared on a farm, and in the common schools and the high school of Indianapolis he obtained a good practical education.
In 1857, when 17 years of age, he began the study of medicine, first under a preceptor and afterward at the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, at which he graduated March 1, 1861. Immediately thereafter he located at Lawrenceville, Illinois, where he practiced till July 6 of the same year. At about that time, the war feeling was running pretty high and Doctor Carter's pariotism manifested itself by making speeches to encourage enlistment in a company that was raised in the neighborhood. He had volunteered himself, and when the company was made up he was elected captain by a unanimous vote. The Illinois quota of this call was filled, and the company could not at this time be mustered into service. Captain Cater at once telegraphed Governor �Dick� Yates that he had 110 men and asked for instructions. Governor Yates ordered him with the company to St. Louis, where, August 8, they were mustered into service, as Company C, 11th Missouri infantry, Captain Carter being mustered as commander of the company. His regiment was actively engaged throughout the war, participating in 19 hard-fought battles without receiving a scratch; but upon one occasion his hat was shot from his head and his sword broken by a piece of shell. On the 24th of April, 1864, his company having become greatly decimated by death and capture, it became necessary to consolidate it with Company G, 7th Missouri infantry, when Captain Carter resigned his commission.
Upon his return to civil life he resumed practice at Lawrenceville, where for 22 years he lived attending to the demands of his practice, and for 12 consecutive years of the time was public administrator of the county, and for 4 years Justice of the Peace. Since settling in Kansas City he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession and has built up a large and lucrative business. He is now professor of diseases of children n the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kansas City, having been called to the chair in September, 1894.
A republican in politics, he was a member of the city central committee from 1888 to 1894. He is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges, becoming connected with both orders in Illinois in 1865; was connected with the grand lodge of the I.O.O.F. of Illinois for 12 years; a member of the grand lodge of Masons of Illinois for 18 years; was an officer in that body from 1878 to 1884; and has been secretary of Heroine lodge, No. 104, A. F. & A. M., of this city since 1890.
Dr. Carter was married January 24, 1865, to Miss Kate J. Feagans, a native of Virginia, of which union 2 children were born, one living - Bertha H., wife of B. W. Walley, of Kansas City.
In both professional and social circles, Dr. Carter is prominent, being widely known as a Mason throughout the country, and as a physician he ranks with the ablest.
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