Mortimer Carter Biography, Genesee County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 1024

This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives.




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MORTIMER CARTER. The gentleman whose name is quoted above is a resident 
upon a pleasant rural place, which comprises five hundred acres of 
agricultural land, located on Smith's Reservation, of Flint Township, 
Genesee County. He was here born January 21, 1843, and is the son of 
James and Sabra (Maltby) Carter, the former a native of England and the 
latter of New York State. They settled in Flint Township about 1841. 
Later they removed to Flint City and there resided for the remainder of 
their lives. They were the parents of eight sons and four daughters and 
our subject was the fifth child in order of birth.

   Mr. Carter was reared to manhood on the home farm in his native 
place. September, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Eighth Michigan 
Infantry, and served for a period of forty-one months, having re-
enlisted in the same company and regiment. He took part in the 
engagements of James Island, S. C., second battle of Bull Run, 
Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg and in many minor 
engagements. He was also in the siege of Knoxville, at the Wilderness, 
at Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor. At the last-named battle he was shot 
through the left shoulder and was seriously injured, having seventeen 
pieces of bone extracted from his shoulder. It is not surprising that 
after so extended and loyal a service, our subject should delight in 
the reunions of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of Crapo 
Post.

   After the war our subject returned to Flint and has ever since been 
engaged in farming. For the past fifteen years he has devoted himself 
especially to the produce business, finding his market in Flint and Bay 
City. He was first married in Flint Township to Miss Ellen Maltby and 
by her he became the father of one daughter, whose name is Avies. Mrs. 
Ellen Carter died in 1870 and our subject was again married in Bay City 
to Miss Maria Stowe, who is an English lady by birth and ancestry and 
who came to America, brought hither by her parents when two years old. 
By this union our subject has become the father of five sons, whose 
names are Frank, Fred, William, George and Charles. They have also lost 
two children; Lewis was drowned when twelve years of age and Ellen died 
when an infant. Our subject has held the office of Township Treasurer 
and has also been School Director. In politics he is a Republican first 
and always. He and his wife are both devoted and consistent members of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church.



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