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Benjamin Carter, farmer and stock-raiser. Notwithstanding the rapid stride made in the last ten or twelve years by the introduction of blooded stock in the county, Mr. Carter has kept thoroughly apace with the times, and is now classed among the prominent farmers and stock-raisers of the community. He was born in Spencer County, Ky., in 1827, and is the son of John and Millie (Mason) Carter, natives of Loudoun County, Va. When quite young Mr. and Mrs. Carter went with their parents to Kentucky, and settled in Carter and Mason Counties, respectively named in their honor. Here they were married, but afterward settled in Spencer County, where Mr. Carter died of cholera in 1832. Mrs. Carter died in Louisville during the war. Grandfather John Carter was a native of Virginia, was of English descent, and was a soldier in the War of 1812, with Harrison. He died in Spencer County. Gen. Carter, a Revolutionary soldier, was his brother. Benjamin Carter, the elder of two brothers, was reared to farm life, received a limited education in the subscription schools, attending about three months in all, and was married in 1852 to Miss Martha Chamberlain, a native of Jefferson County, Ky., born in 1834, and the daughter of Jacob and Sarah Chamberlain, natives of Marion County, Ky. Mr. Chamberlain died in Jefferson County, Ky., but Mrs. Chamberlain is still living there. Twelve children were the fruits of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Carter, five sons and four daughters now living. In 1852 Mr. Carter and family removed to Orange County, Ind., and in 1869 came to Cedar County, where he has two good farms on Sac River, 185 acres in two tracts, with 125 under cultivation. Mr. Carter started life with limited means, and has made all his property by his own exertions. He was formerly a Whig in politics, voting for Taylor in 1848, but he is now a Republican. Mrs. Carter is and has been a member of the Christian Church for many years. Their children are named as follows: Thomas, of Texas; Jacob, Harvey; Martha, wife of John Ellison; Sallie, wife of Washington Sexton; Mary, wife of James Hackleman; James, Ruth and Franklin. Mr. Carter has spared no pains to educate his children. During the late war he was one of the company that followed Gen. John Morgan to the Ohio line, while he was making his famous raid through that State. He has always been very industrious, has been a hard-worker all his life, and has reared a large family. Mrs. Carter’s parents were cousins, and their parents were natives of Virginia, but early settlers of Kentucky, where Thomas Chamberlain, Mrs. Carter’s paternal grandfather, died. Her maternal grandfather, Fielding Chamberlain, removed to Missouri in the latter part of his life, and died in Andrew County. One of her grandfathers was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.