. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . num-ber of graduates isnearly 3,500. Theinvested funds ofthe c o 11 e g e n o wamount to §835,954,and the annual in-come is $81, total financialgain since PresidentCarter assumed con-trol is $1,000,000, ofwhich nearly $500,-000 is in buildingsand land. FranklinCarter, the son ofPreser\e Wood andRuth Wells (Holmes)Carter, was born atWaterbury, Ct., , 1837. He wasmarried to SarahLeavenworth, daugh-ter of Charles I)en-ison Kingsbury, , 1863
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . num-ber of graduates isnearly 3,500. Theinvested funds ofthe c o 11 e g e n o wamount to §835,954,and the annual in-come is $81, total financialgain since PresidentCarter assumed con-trol is $1,000,000, ofwhich nearly $500,-000 is in buildingsand land. FranklinCarter, the son ofPreser\e Wood andRuth Wells (Holmes)Carter, was born atWaterbury, Ct., , 1837. He wasmarried to SarahLeavenworth, daugh-ter of Charles I)en-ison Kingsbury, , 1863, and fourchildren have beenborn to them. .Kboarding school fur-nished the beginning of President Carters education,followed later by a course of study at Phillips Academy,Andover, whence he graduated as valedictorian of hisclass. He entered Yale the same year, 1855, but afterremaining two years was compelled to leave on accountof ill health. He travelled for three years and enteredWilliams College in i860, graduating two years was appointed professor of Latin and French in1863, but travelled in Europe for eighteen months. FRANKLIN CARTER before entering upon his duties. In 1872 he waschosen to the chair of German literature at Yale, andoccupied the position for nine years, or until he waselected president of Williams College, in 1881. In 1883President Carter also assumed the duties of a professor-ship in theology. Several colleges have honored himby granting him degrees. He received the degree of A. Williams, 1862 ; A. M. from Dickinson, 1863, Wil-liams, 1865, Yale, 1874; Ph. D. from Williams, 1877, and LL. D. fromLTnion, 1881. Presi- . dent Carter has also done considerablework, other than thatconnected with thecolleges, with whichhe has been asso-ciated. He waspresident of the Gos-pel Union at NewHaven for threeyears, and chairmanof the InternationalCommittee of Workfor Boys ; is a trusteeof Andover Theolog-ical Seminary and ofClarke Institutionfor Deaf Mute
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