"The Wizard of Wall Street"
Charles Paige Carter was born in Ware, Hampshire Co., Ma. on 18 Dec 1829 to Col. Abialbon Carter and Thankful Paige. In 1849, the resourceful Carter invented the first spinning apple parer. His company was located in Enfield, Ma. (town which is now under the Quabbin Reservoir) and at one point he employed 40 workers making 700 dozen apple parers a day. In January 1853 Charles married Cornelia Bagg of Worthington, Ma. but she contracted typhoid fever and died 18 months later in July 1854 after giving birth to a daughter, Sarah Webster. Charles Carter then traveled to Canada and to Penn. to cash in on the oil speculation boom but he got sick from the chemicals used in refining and returned to Ware, Ma. in the early 1860’s to recover. Charles met Susan Charlotte Bristol from Fairhaven, Vermont and married sometime in 1864/65. They had two children, Cornelia B. and Susan Bristol but Susan (the mother) died in Pougkeepsie, New York of unknown causes in 1870 two months after giving birth to Susan. By this time Charles Carter had established himself as a jeweler, locksmith, and general inventor and came to be known as the “Wizard of Wall Street” in Kingston, New York. In 1874 Carter invented how to record sound onto to a tin foil spool, thus inventing a tin foil phonograph three years before Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his tin foil phonograph. But Carter thought of it as a toy and used it to amuse his children. It was reported (in the newspaper) that representatives of Edison had visited with Charles Carter a year or so prior to Edison's application for his patent. Charles Carter was married a third and final time in 1873 to Clara Louise Potter and had four more children, Clara Paige, Charles Henry, Harriet Vail, Rachael S. Charles P. Carter was active till the day he died before passing away in his home in 1915. His popularity was such that his name was still used in phonograph advertising many years later and his death noted in newspapers across the county.
Charles Paige Carter was born in Ware, Hampshire Co., Ma. on 18 Dec 1829 to Col. Abialbon Carter and Thankful Paige. In 1849, the resourceful Carter invented the first spinning apple parer. His company was located in Enfield, Ma. (town which is now under the Quabbin Reservoir) and at one point he employed 40 workers making 700 dozen apple parers a day. In January 1853 Charles married Cornelia Bagg of Worthington, Ma. but she contracted typhoid fever and died 18 months later in July 1854 after giving birth to a daughter, Sarah Webster. Charles Carter then traveled to Canada and to Penn. to cash in on the oil speculation boom but he got sick from the chemicals used in refining and returned to Ware, Ma. in the early 1860’s to recover. Charles met Susan Charlotte Bristol from Fairhaven, Vermont and married sometime in 1864/65. They had two children, Cornelia B. and Susan Bristol but Susan (the mother) died in Pougkeepsie, New York of unknown causes in 1870 two months after giving birth to Susan. By this time Charles Carter had established himself as a jeweler, locksmith, and general inventor and came to be known as the “Wizard of Wall Street” in Kingston, New York. In 1874 Carter invented how to record sound onto to a tin foil spool, thus inventing a tin foil phonograph three years before Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his tin foil phonograph. But Carter thought of it as a toy and used it to amuse his children. It was reported (in the newspaper) that representatives of Edison had visited with Charles Carter a year or so prior to Edison's application for his patent. Charles Carter was married a third and final time in 1873 to Clara Louise Potter and had four more children, Clara Paige, Charles Henry, Harriet Vail, Rachael S. Charles P. Carter was active till the day he died before passing away in his home in 1915. His popularity was such that his name was still used in phonograph advertising many years later and his death noted in newspapers across the county.
"The Wizard of Wall Street"
Charles Paige Carter was born in Ware, Hampshire Co., Ma. on 18 Dec 1829 to Col. Abialbon Carter and Thankful Paige. In 1849, the resourceful Carter invented the first spinning apple parer. His company was located in Enfield, Ma. (town which is now under the Quabbin Reservoir) and at one point he employed 40 workers making 700 dozen apple parers a day. In January 1853 Charles married Cornelia Bagg of Worthington, Ma. but she contracted typhoid fever and died 18 months later in July 1854 after giving birth to a daughter, Sarah Webster. Charles Carter then traveled to Canada and to Penn. to cash in on the oil speculation boom but he got sick from the chemicals used in refining and returned to Ware, Ma. in the early 1860’s to recover. Charles met Susan Charlotte Bristol from Fairhaven, Vermont and married sometime in 1864/65. They had two children, Cornelia B. and Susan Bristol but Susan (the mother) died in Pougkeepsie, New York of unknown causes in 1870 two months after giving birth to Susan. By this time Charles Carter had established himself as a jeweler, locksmith, and general inventor and came to be known as the “Wizard of Wall Street” in Kingston, New York. In 1874 Carter invented how to record sound onto to a tin foil spool, thus inventing a tin foil phonograph three years before Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his tin foil phonograph. But Carter thought of it as a toy and used it to amuse his children. It was reported (in the newspaper) that representatives of Edison had visited with Charles Carter a year or so prior to Edison's application for his patent. Charles Carter was married a third and final time in 1873 to Clara Louise Potter and had four more children, Clara Paige, Charles Henry, Harriet Vail, Rachael S. Charles P. Carter was active till the day he died before passing away in his home in 1915. His popularity was such that his name was still used in phonograph advertising many years later and his death noted in newspapers across the county.
Charles Paige Carter was born in Ware, Hampshire Co., Ma. on 18 Dec 1829 to Col. Abialbon Carter and Thankful Paige. In 1849, the resourceful Carter invented the first spinning apple parer. His company was located in Enfield, Ma. (town which is now under the Quabbin Reservoir) and at one point he employed 40 workers making 700 dozen apple parers a day. In January 1853 Charles married Cornelia Bagg of Worthington, Ma. but she contracted typhoid fever and died 18 months later in July 1854 after giving birth to a daughter, Sarah Webster. Charles Carter then traveled to Canada and to Penn. to cash in on the oil speculation boom but he got sick from the chemicals used in refining and returned to Ware, Ma. in the early 1860’s to recover. Charles met Susan Charlotte Bristol from Fairhaven, Vermont and married sometime in 1864/65. They had two children, Cornelia B. and Susan Bristol but Susan (the mother) died in Pougkeepsie, New York of unknown causes in 1870 two months after giving birth to Susan. By this time Charles Carter had established himself as a jeweler, locksmith, and general inventor and came to be known as the “Wizard of Wall Street” in Kingston, New York. In 1874 Carter invented how to record sound onto to a tin foil spool, thus inventing a tin foil phonograph three years before Thomas Edison applied for a patent for his tin foil phonograph. But Carter thought of it as a toy and used it to amuse his children. It was reported (in the newspaper) that representatives of Edison had visited with Charles Carter a year or so prior to Edison's application for his patent. Charles Carter was married a third and final time in 1873 to Clara Louise Potter and had four more children, Clara Paige, Charles Henry, Harriet Vail, Rachael S. Charles P. Carter was active till the day he died before passing away in his home in 1915. His popularity was such that his name was still used in phonograph advertising many years later and his death noted in newspapers across the county.
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