CARTER. PLATT S.
, was born June 29, 1815, in Warren, Litchfield county, Conn. He came to Waverly, Ill., in Nov., 1836, and in Jan., 1837, began to improve the farm where J. Milton Lockbridge now resides, one mile west of Auburn. He was advised to abandon the project, lest he should freeze to death, and was solemnly warned that he would be compelled to live without neighbors, his improvements being more than two miles from the timber. He returned to his native town, and was there married, July 25, 1839, to Flora M. Carter, who was born in the same place, July 25, 1815. They came at once to their new home, near Auburn, traveling the entire distance in wagons. At that time there were no improvements southwest nearer than fifteen miles, and the whole area a natural meadow. There was an abundance of grass for thousands of cattle and sheep. A year or two later Mr. Carter bought a flock of sheep, and that caused great uneasiness to some of the neighbors, who had a few head of cattle, lest the sheep would eat all the grass. Mr. and Mrs. Carter had four children in Sangamon county, namely--ADONIRAM, born Nov. 5, 1842, enlisted August, 1862, in Co. C, 101 Ill. Inf., but was discharged on account of physical disability, without fully entering the army. He graduated at Michigan University, in the class of 1868, and is now a practicing attorney at 157, south Clark street, Chicago.
DARIUS, born June 6, 1845, enlisted May 2, 1864, in Co. C, 145th Ill. Inf., for one hundred days. and was honorably discharged, Sept. 28, 1864. He was married April 6, 1869, to Avice Pickett, who was born Nov. 9, 1848, at Hartland, Conn., and died May 14, 1870. He was married April 29, 1873, to Sarah Poor, who was born Oct. 1, 1850, in Sullivan county, Tenn. They reside in the southwest part of Loami township.
LUCINDA A., born August 31, 1848, in Sangamon county, married June 25, 1874, to Dr. Albert Brown, who was born June 25, 1849, in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, March, 1873, and resides in Waverly, Ill.
PLATT S., Jun., born Dec. 6, 1850, in Sangamon county, married near Waverly, Morgan county, Nov. 20, 1873, to Belle Woods, and resides in Sangamon county, near Waverly, Ill.
Platt S. Carter, Sen., is one of the many successful farmers of this county. He has always taken an active interest in every movement calculated to develop the resources of the country, and to elevate the intellectual standard of the cultivators of the soil, and has several times represented Loami township in the Board of county Supervisors. He has been an energetic worker in the interests of the Sangamon county Agricultural Society, and was President of the same for the year 1875. He resides in Loami township, two and a half miles north of Waverly.