Biography of B S Carleton, Mississippi Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: Sep 1998
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Bibliography: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas.
Chicago:  Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.

B. S. Carleton. As an example of the usefulness and prominence
to which men of character and determination will attain, we have but to
chronicle the life of Mr. Carleton, one of the most extensive cotton
growers within the limits of Mississippi County. He was born in
Lafayette County, Miss., in 1851, and moved with his father, Dr. A.
Carleton, of Virginia, to Memphis, Tenn., when but eight years of age.
He received his education in the Memphis schools, with the exception of
three years which he spent in the schools in Mississippi, and afterward
studied medicine for two years in Memphis. He then went to his mother,
who was living on a plantation in Coahoma County, Miss., and was
engaged in agricultural pursuits for several years. Going from there to
Commerce, Miss., he followed merchandising for three years, and then
came to Nodena about twelve years ago. Since that time he has been
speculating in cotton, and runs a plantation. His average yield of
cotton is from 300 to 650 bales per year, and he has now about 300
people on his place. He is proprietor of the landing known as the Idaho
& Tonages, and is also proprietor of the places known as Idaho, Clark,
Carleton Lake, Pitman and Lower Tonages, which contain about 1,200
acres of land. Mr. Carleton is the owner of a cotton-gin and sawmill.
In 1880 his marriage to Miss Ida V. Bell was consummated, she being of
Memphis birth, the daughter of W. J. Bell, of North Carolina, and
Josephine (Moore) Bell, of Shelby County, Tenn. Three children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Carleton: Cleave, Byron and Carrie, all at home.
Mr. Carleton is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Lodge No. 27,
Osceola, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. Carleton [p.480] are people of refinement
and taste, and are connected with some of the best families of the
county; they are also well known and much esteemed in Memphis, Tenn.
Mr. Carleton takes great pride in the fact that he is a descendant of
the State that was “the mother of Presidents,” and of the Scotch-Irish
Carleton family.