Carter, Theodore George, 1832-1914.

Theodore George Carter was born on February 28, 1832 in Friendship (Allegany County), New York, the son of Miles and Margaretta Loughborough Carter. Following an education in Yorkshire, where the family settled in 1834, and the Richburg academy (1849-1851), Carter was employed in several small New York communities as a carpenter, paperhanger, and housepainter. In 1854 he settled in Olean, New York, apprenticing as a machinist under his brother Nathan.

In the autumn of 1855 Nathan moved to Minnesota, homesteading on Lake Washington in LeSueur County the following spring. Carter soon followed his brother, obtaining employment as a surveyor and, in 1858, becoming land examiner for the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company. In September 1859 he moved to St. Peter, adding the positions of U.S. Land Office agent (1860) and clerk in the private bank of Edgerton and Donahower (1861) to his other activities. On November 12, 1860 he married Margaret "Maggie" O. Byam (1833-1912). The couple had eight children: Albert Byam (1861- ), Lolette (1863-1863), Willie (1866-1867), Anna Adelle "Dell" (1868- ), Margaret Belle (1870- ), Nona Rosa Blossom (1872- ), Theodore George (1874-1875), and Bessie J. (1877- ).

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