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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

SAMUEL M. CART, superintendent of the schools of Chariton, Iowa, occupies a
position of distinctive importance in this city, and is ranked with the leading
educators of the State. As such he affords a fitting subject for biographical
honors. The following review of his life will now and in years to come be read
with interest by many whose privilege and pleasure it was to receive
instructions from him.

   Samuel M. Cart was born in Elkhart county, Indiana, February 25, 1849. His
parents, William and Nancy (Cart) Cart, while their names were the same, were
not relatives, he being descended from Irish ancestors and she from German.
William Cart was born in Virginia, September 12, 1808, and is still living, a
venerable citizen of Marion county, Iowa. He enjoys the distinction of having
voted for the two Harrisons-grandfather and grandson. His good wife, born
September 22, 1814, passed away in June, 1890, in her seventy-sixth year. Of
their six children, we record that the first two died in infancy; the next,
Sarah J., widow of Asa Poison, who was a member of the Fortieth Iowa Volunteers,
and who died of disease contracted in the service, resides with her aged father;
Hamilton, the fourth born, is unmarried and also resides at the homestead; and
Margaret A., wife of Stephen Y. Gose, a retired farmer and merchant, resides at
Pleasantville, Iowa. Mr. Gose was a member of the Sixteenth General Assembly of
Iowa.

   Professor Cart, the subject of our sketch, is the youngest of the family. He
spent his  early childhood days on his father's farm in Indiana, and in 1854
removed with them to Marion county, Iowa, where he was reared to farm life.
After completing a district school education he entered Simpson College at
Indianola, Iowa, where he finished a scientific course and graduated in 1875. In
the meantime he taught school, thus procuring the means with which to complete
his education, and since his graduation has given his whole time and attention
to the profession of teaching, his first engagement being one year at Carlisle,
Iowa. In the centennial year he visited the East, spending some time at
Philadelphia, and on his return stopped at Goshen, Indiana, where he secured a
position in the city schools. This position he held the following three years.
Then he came again to Iowa and was employed as instructor in the Knoxville
Academy. After a connection with the academy one year, he accepted the position
as principal of the West Ward school of Knoxville, which he filled one year. The
next two years he was superintendent of the public schools at Tama, Iowa. This
position he resigned in order to take charge of the public schools at Indianola.
That was in 1883, and he remained the efficient superintendent of Indianola's
schools until 1890, when he secured a Government appointment at Santa Fe, New
Mexico, his duty being to organize and conduct an Indian school. This
appointment was made by General Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Professor Cart organized the school as directed, and conducted the same for
three years and a half, when, on the change of administration, he resigned and
returned to Iowa. In January, 1894, he took charge of the North Des Moines high
school, which he conducted the rest of the year, and in April of the same year
he was elected to his present position.

   The city schools of Chariton comprise four ward schools, the high school
being located in the Columbus building, the others being designated as Garfield,
Bancroft and Franklin. There are sixteen departments, and seventeen teachers,
besides the superintendent, are employed. The high-school graduates can enter
the freshman class of the State University without examination. On the whole the
Chariton schools are well abreast with the advancement made in educational
lines, are ranked with the best in the State, and under Professor Cart's
superintendency are enjoying an era of prosperity.

   Aside from his regular school work, Professor Cart has done much as a normal
institute instructor, and in this way has gained a wide acquaintance among the
teachers throughout the State. Indeed, for the past fifteen years his vacations
have been thus occupied, and such is the demand for his services that he finds
it impossible to answer all the calls made upon him. He holds a life diploma
from the State of Iowa, issued in 1887.

   Professor Cart has been married twice. At the close of his last school year
at Goshen, Indiana, he was married in that city to Miss Belle Mercer, who was
born and reared there, and who was an orphan from her early childhood. Her
brother and sister had also died, and at the time of her marriage she was the
only one of the family left, and she, too, was soon to be called to her last
home. May 3, 1881, after only twenty-two months of happy wedded life, she passed
away, her death occurring at Knoxville, Iowa. Mr. Cart's second marriage was
consummated at Tama, Iowa, September 6, 1882, the lady of his choice being Miss
Minnie E. Poyneer, daughter of Edward M. Poyneer, a well-known citizen of
Montour, Iowa; and she is a niece of Hon. A. N. Poyneer, Lieutenant Governor of
Iowa from 1890 to 1892. The Professor and his wife have an interesting family of
five children,-Ralph, Wilma, Herbert, Kate and Edward.

   Unlike many of the profession to which Mr. Cart belongs, he has each year
saved a portion of his earnings, and by careful economy and the exercise of good
judgment in making investments he has acquired a competency. He owns a fine farm
of 160 acres, located three miles and a half from Indianola, and also owns a
business block in that city. Socially, he is a prominent member of the Masonic
order, having received the Knight Templar degrees. He also holds membership in
the A. O. U. W. His church relation is with the Presbyterians. He is
superintendent of the Sunday-school and a member of the Session, and is one of
the most prominent and active members of the church.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

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"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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