Biography of J. Benham Carter, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

J. Benham Carter, cashier of the Ozark Bank, was born in Tishomingo
County, Miss., October 18, 1845, and is a son of T. A. Carter, M. D.
[see sketch]. He accompanied his father to Ozark, where he grew to
manhood and received a moderate education. When seventeen years of age
he enlisted in the Home Guards, and in 1863 joined Company C, First
Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate States Army, and served until the
cessation of hostilities. Among other battles he participated in the
fights at Prairie De Hand, Mark's Mills and Fayetteville. At Mark's
Mills he received a flesh wound, which disabled him from active
service for four months. After the war he joined his father in Texas,
and there farmed and clerked until 1868, after which he clerked in
Webb City, Franklin Co., Ark., remaining there until 1879. He bought
an interest in the firm in 1872. He then established a mercantile
business in Ozark, which he conducted until 1887, and then sold. He
and other prominent business men established the Arkansas Valley Bank,
of which he was elected cashier, and which is the only bank in Ozark.
Mr. Carter is one of the most reliable business men of the place, and
is a director, the treasurer and one of the original stockholders of
the Ozark Canning Association. June 29, 1873, Mr. Carter married
Eugenie Beneux, a native of this county, where she was reared. Her
parents were Justine and Sallie Beneux. Her father was a native of
France. Mrs. Carter bore four children, viz.: Lillian P., Elsie R.
(who died aged sixteen months), Ouita G. and Claude B. Mrs. Carter
died December 10, 1886. Mr. Carter is a Royal Arch Mason, and has
served as Master and High Priest of his Chapter.