Union County, SD Biographies.....Carleton, John R. February 12, 1840 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

JOHN R. CARLETON, the able and efficient editor and proprietor of the Beresford News
is a native of Frankfort, Sussex Co., N. J. His parents were Dr. John W. and Jane
(Rathburn) Carleton, the former born in Dublin, Ireland, and the latter in New
Jersey. Alter their marriage they settled temporarily in New Jersey, and later went
to Pennsylvania and made a permanent home at Carbondale, Luzerne county. Dr.
Carleton was a graduate of the Royal College of Dublin, the New York College of
Medicine, and also the New Jersey Medical university, and was one of the prominent
medical practitioners of his day, as well as an expert surgeon. During the Civil war
he served as surgeon in the hospital corps and was in charge of the Pennsylvania
state troops. He and his wife were the parents of three children, of whom our
subject was the eldest; Phoebe was the next in order of birth, and is now the wife
of Richard Miller, of Pennsylvania; William, the youngest, resides in Italy.

John R. Carleton was born February 12, 1840, and was educated in the common schools
at Carbondale, Pa., finishing his study with a course in the University of Montrose,
Pa. His first initiation into the mysteries of the “art preservative of all arts”
was when he was seventeen years of age, he at that time entering the office of the
Carbondale Transcript. He served an apprenticeship of three years in this
establishment, and then went to New York city, working on some of the principal
morning papers, then edited there until the war broke out. His patriotic spirit was
aroused, and, on offering his services to the government was accepted, and enlisted
in the Ninth regiment, New York state militia for three-months’ service. He did duty
most of that time around Washington, D. C., and at the expiration of his term of
service re-enlisted in the same regiment, company L. This regiment then joined the
army of the Potomac and served principally in and around the Shenandoah valley. Our
subject was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate of disability in November, 1862,
but two months afterward, January, 1863, he again enlisted, this time becoming a
member of the Fifth Rhode Island regiment, heavy artillery, company I. He was
mustered in as first sergeant, and the battalion was then transferred to Newberne,
N. C., on garrison duty until July, 1865. During this time Mr. Carleton acted as
hospital steward during the yellow fever epidemic of 1864. After being discharged
our subject went back to New York city, and there and in other states worked at his
trade until 1876, when he settled in Osage, Iowa. On the Osage News he was employed
for two years, and while residing there was united in marriage to the lady who has
ever since presided over the affairs of his household with grace and dignity. She
bore the maiden name of Miss Louise H. Wass, and is a native of Grundy county, Iowa.
After their marriage, which occurred May 15, 1876, the young couple went to New
Hampton, Iowa, where Mr. Carleton bought an interest in the New Hampton Courier.
After six years spent in conducting that paper he sold out, and then removed to
Beresford, establishing the Beresford News in August, 1883.

As the editor and proprietor of this paper he has made a grand success, and has
built up an enviable reputation as an able journalist, espousing the doctrines and
advocating the principles of the Republican party through its columns. He has
conducted the enterprise on business methods, and in 1895 built a fine brick office
and residence. He served as postmaster of Beresford under President Arthur's
administration, and has been elected a justice of the peace, also holding a
commission as notary public. He is one of the charter members of the Gen. G. M.
Dodge post No. 69, G. A. R., and has at one time and another held all the offices in
it. He is also an Odd Fellow and belongs to Beresford lodge No. 130, of that order.

Mr. and Mrs. Carleton’s married life has been brightened by the birth of two
children, one of whom, William, survives, the other child dying in infancy. Mrs.
Carle-ton is a devout Christian and a member of the Congregational church.


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