W. E. CARTER, attorney at law, and senior member of the law firm of Carter, Carter & Cleary, Platteville; is a native of Sussex, England; born in November, 1833; came to America in the spring of 1850, and settled in Lancaster, Grant Co., Wis., where he read law with J. Allen Barber, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1856. In January, 1861, he came to Platteville, and went into partnership with the late Stephen O. Paine, with whom he was associated till the death of Mr. Paine. He then took his brother, George B. Carter, into partnership with him, and Jan. 1, 1881, took in the junior member of the firm - T. L. Cleary. Mr. Carter represented his district in the State Legislature three consecutive terms - in 1877, 1878 and 1879 - and is at present a member of the Board of Regents for the State University.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.