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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [259-260]

           WILLIAM CARTER, owner and manager of the Crescent Hotel at Port
        Crescent, was born March 12, 1830, in Genesee Co., N.Y. His father,
        JOSEPH CARTER, was a native of New England and of English descent,
        a carpenter by trade and died in 1860, in Genesee Co., N.Y.  His
        mother, OLIVE (FULLER) CARTER, was born in New England, and died in
        the Empire State.
           He was the oldest of a family of seven children, and when he
        was five years old was placed in the care of strangers, living at
        various points until he was 20 years of age, when he began to work
        as a carpenter and joiner in the Province of Ontario, and pursued
        that calling until he was 35 years of age in the Dominion of
        Canada.
           In 1864 he located at Port Austin, where he worked as a saw-mill
        assistant for AYRES & Co., in whose employ he remained two years.
        In 1866 he purchased 80 acres of unimproved land in Dwight Town-
        ship. The affairs of the township were in pioneer condition, he
        owning the second horse-team within its limits. He remained on the
        place four years, making many improvements.
           In 1870 he removed to Hume Township, where he conducted the
        affairs of a farm in the interests of JONAS R. LEARNED, of Port
        Austin, for five years. He afterwards purchased a farm situated on
        the same section, where he pursued agricultural operations six
        years, and in 1882 he purchased the hotel property which he is
        still conducting in behalf of the traveling public.
           MR. CARTER is a Republican in political affinity.  He has served
        one year as Supervisor, and two years as Clerk of Dwight Township,
        and has been Clerk four years, Justice of the Peace eight years,
        four years School Superintendent and five years School Director in
        Hume Township. He is present (1884) Superintendent of the Poor.
           His marriage to MARGARET RENNEY occurred March 20, 1855, in
        Grimsby, Ont. She was born Nov. 17, 1831, in Toronto. Her parents
        died when she was in childhood and she was reared among and by
        strangers. Two of her eight children are deceased. GEORGE, ALICE,
        FANNIE, EVALINE, ISABELLA and JOHN are living. The family are com-
        municants in the Episcopal Church.

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