Jervis W. Carter Biography

	This biography appears on page 488 in "History of Minnehaha 
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed 
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CARTER, JERVIS W., was born in Benson, Rutland county, Vermont, May 18, 1830.  
His father was a merchant, and the subject of this sketch attended the public 
schools, and fitted for entering the sophomore class in college at Castleton 
seminary, Castleton, Vt. When twenty years old he went to Milwaukee, Wis., where 
he was employed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for two years. 
He then removed to Watertown, Wis., where he taught school three years.  He next 
engaged for one year in the newspaper business ~n Portage county, Wis., and 
published a republican newspaper during the Fremont campaign.  After the 
election he entered the law office of Sloan & Lander, at Beaver Dam, and after 
being admitted to the bar, practiced law in New London and Waupaca, and was 
elected county attorney four terms and was a member of the legislature one term. 
From Wisconsin he removed to Gage county, Neb., where he was judge of probate 
two terms.  In 1885 he came to Dakota, remained at Yankton a few months, and 
then located at Canton, in Lincoln county, where he practiced law until 1890.  
While a resident of Canton he was county attorney six years, and district 
attorney of the fourth judicial district four years. In 1890 he removed to 
Pierre and was in the land office at that place four years.  During the last six 
months of Governor Sheldon's administration, he was his private secretary.  In 
March, 1896, he removed to Sioux Falls, where he now resides.  Judge Carter is a 
good lawyer, was a successful prosecutor, is a genial gentleman, a highly 
respected citizen, and has a host of friends.