Biographical Sketch of L. H. Carter, Johnson County, Missouri,
Madison Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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L. H. Carter, a progressive and successful farmer and stockman of 
Madison township, is one of Johnson county's most substantial citizens.
Mr. Carter is a native of this state.  He was born in Lincoln county,
Missouri, a son of William and Agnes (Farney) Carter, of Scotch and
Irish descent.  When L. H. Carter was a child two years of age, his
parents moved from Lincoln county to Warren county, Missouri, and sett-
led on a farm near Wright City, where the son, L. H., was reared to
manhood.  Mr. and Mrs. William Carter were both natives of Virginia and
among the first families to leave that state in the early pioneer days
and make their permanent home in the thinly populated West.  They spent
their lives bravely toiling for the upbuilding and betterment of their
chosen county and state, Warren county and Missouri.  On the farm in
Warren county, both the father and mother died many years ago.  On a
Missouri farm, L. H. Carter was born and reared.  His boyhood days and
early youth were spent in assisting his father with the farm work and 
in attending the country school near his home.  Mr. Carter has been
interested in farming since childhood and after attaining maturity he
began life for himself engaged in the pursuits of agriculture.  Until
he was thirty-five years of age, he devoted his attention almost exclu-
sively to tobacco growing in Warren county.  About 1880, Mr. Carter 
moved from Warren to Jackson county and engaged in general farming for
a few years, when he located on a farm in Polk township, Cass county,
and there remained ten years, coming thence to Johnson county to reside
on the Dick Jackson country place for two years.  From the Jackson farm
he moved two years after locating there to the Corney place and two
years later, in September, 1916, purchased his present country home in
the northern part of Madison township, a farm comprising five hundred
fifty-eight acres of valuable land.  Mr. Carter raises both stock and 
grain and at the present time, in 1917, has forty acres of his farm in
oats and is feeding a large number of fine cattle and hogs.  The Carter
place is conveniently located four miles north of Holden.  In 1880, 
L. H. Carter and Virginia Dyer, a niece of Judge Dyer, the United 
States District Judge for Missouri, were united in marriage.  Mrs.
Carter's parents were native Virginians.  To this union have been born
six children: Mrs. Agnes Wright, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Harry, of Okla-
homa; Parks, who is associated with his father in farming the home
place; Minnie, the wife of Roy Davis, the assistant cashier of the Bank
of Strasburg, Missouri; George, who is engaged in farming and stock
raising on the home place, associated in business with his father and
elder brother; and Bessie, the wife of Homer Carter, of Johnson county,
Missouri.  Politically, Mr. Carter has always been an active Democrat.
He is a member of a family that have ever been intensely alive to 
matters of public interest and enthusiastic participants in important
struggles for the right as each saw the right.  Three cousins of L. H.
Carter served in the Confederate army during the Civil War.  Mr. Carter
is one of the leading citizens of this county and he is widely known
as a prosperous and enterprising agriculturist.  The seventy-two years
of experience in the world have given him a broad perspective and it
is a pleasure and privilege to converse with L. H. Carter.  He and Mrs.
Carter are highly respected in their community.

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