Duval County FlArchives Biographies..... CARTER,  CHARLES R. April 30, 1878 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. III, page 139, 1923

     CARTER, CHARLES R., secretary-treasurer of the Foley-Carter Insurance 
Agency at St. Petersburg, the largest insurance and bonding business in 
Pinellas County, has been active in business and civic affairs in St. 
Petersburg for a number of years, and prior to that was a railroad man.
     He was born in Lowndes County, Georgia, April 30, 1878, a son of RUFUS T. 
and MARTHA (COLEMAN) CARTER.  His parents were born in Georgia, and his mother 
is now living at St. Petersburg.  The father brought the family to Florida in 
1902, and in 1909 settled in Pinellas County, where he died in 1916.
     Only child of his parents, CHARLES R. CARTER was reared and educated in 
Georgia, and as a youth entered the operating department of a railroad company, 
and for a number of years was a passenger conductor on the Coast Line Railway 
with a run between Jacksonville and St. Petersburg.  Mr. CARTER resigned from 
the railroad in 1912, and then engaged in the real estate business at St. 
Petersburg.  The handling of real estate is now only a side line to the 
insurance and bonding business of the Foley-Carter company.
     Mr. CARTER took an active part in organizing the city commission form of 
government for St. Petersburg, and has been a member of the commission since 
1916, and is now chairman of the board.  He was for two consecutive years 
president of the Chamber of Commerce, and has been a leader in all matters 
involving the growth and development of the city.  He served as exalted ruler 
in 1919 of the Lodge of Elks, and was a delegate to the National Convention at 
Chicago in 1920.  He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
and Modern Woodmen of America, and is active in the democratic party.
     His first wife was Miss GERTRUDE CHITTY, of Micanopy, Florida.  She died 
in 1909, leaving one son, CHARLES R., Jr., who is now attending the city 
schools of St. Petersburg.  In 1912 Mr. CARTER married LULA De LOACH, of 
Lowndes County, Georgia.  They have two children, FRANK De LOACH and ANN 
ELIZABETH.


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