History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . tics, a repub-lican, not rabid. He lives in the top of a six story apartment, alittle lower than the angels. If any one doubts it, let him askNoble, he has been there. His wife, at this point in the story, exclaims, Aanity of vani-ties, all is vanitv, and the machine runs down. Charles Simeon Carter, , , Wis. Born in a log cabin in thetown of ]\Ietomen, near the pres-ent village of Fairwater, Fond duLac County, Wisconsin, March31, 1846, his parents having thenInit recently pre-empted a quartersectio
History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . tics, a repub-lican, not rabid. He lives in the top of a six story apartment, alittle lower than the angels. If any one doubts it, let him askNoble, he has been there. His wife, at this point in the story, exclaims, Aanity of vani-ties, all is vanitv, and the machine runs down. Charles Simeon Carter, , , Wis. Born in a log cabin in thetown of ]\Ietomen, near the pres-ent village of Fairwater, Fond duLac County, Wisconsin, March31, 1846, his parents having thenInit recently pre-empted a quartersection of government land andlocated there as farmers. CharlesS. was the second white childl)orn in that township. Whetheror not his advent stimulated theinhabitants of the territory (thenabout 150,000) to apply for ad-mission as a state, it is certainthat, during the first week follow-ing his birth, they voted in favor of the proposition which resultedtwo years later in the Territory of Wisconsin assuming the dignityof statehood. His father, Jacob Carter, born June 2, 1813, in. Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 63 Lnncnlnirgh, W orcester Co., Mass., was descended from JohnRogers, the mart^yr at Smithfield during Queen Marys reign. TheBible owned by Rogers at the time of his death is carefuUy pre-served in a glass case by a branch of the Carter family in NewYork City. Jacob Carter moved to Erie Co., Penn., at i8 years ofage, and to Wisconsin in 1844, ^i^d passed the remainder of his lifeupon the above mentioned farm, which he owned at the time of his•death, September 29, 1890. The mother of Charles S., Elizabeth(Wasson) Carter, was Ijorn February 13, 1818, at Londonderrv,N. H.; was married to Jacob Carter July 17, 1833; became themother of twelve children, five of whom are still living. She re-sides with a daughter, Mrs. Eliza B. Gregg, at Wauwatosa, nearMilwaukee, and is in her 85th year. She remembers, and relatesthat she saw, when she was about seven years old, her g
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