BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID J. CARTER, HARRISON CO, WEST VIRGINIA

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Submitted by Valerie Crook
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 582
Harrison

DAVID J. CARTER has achieved prominence at the bar of
his native county, Harrison, where the Carter family has
been one of substantial prominence for nearly a century.

Mr. Carter was born August 19, 1879. He is a son of
Robert Marion Carter, who was born in 1856 on a farm near
Marshville, and spent all his active life on that homestead.
He was a substantial farmer, also interested in banking at
Salem, and fully maintained the honorable traditions of the
family. He married Mary Rebecca Ritter, who was born
near Salem, West Virginia, in 1860. She died in 1917.
Both he and his wife early in life united with the Baptist
Church.

David J. Carter, the oldest in a family of seven children,
was born and reared on a farm, acquired a common school
education, supplemented by the advantages of Salem Col-
lege, later the State Normal School at Fairmont, and took
both the literary and law courses in West Virginia University
at Morgantown. Mr. Carter was admitted to the bar in
1906, and immediately began practice at Clarksburg. He is
senior member of the law firm of Carter and Sheets. Mr.
Carter is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and a member of
the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to the Elks.

On October 19, 1910, he married Blanch Opal Hardesty,
daughter of Robert R. Hardesty, of Shinnston in Harrison
County.