s/o John E. Carter and Prudence Horn
Husband of: Myrtle Hough Carter
Residing at 817 S. Maple Street
Carthage, Missouri
Occupation was retired hardware dealer in retail hardware. His last location had a history. Jesse Thacker built the building in year Carthage became a city, 1873, starting his hardware business. His building acted as a fire wall during the 1880 devastating fire along north side of square. It was sold following his death to Henry Miller Keim and Joseph Moore McMillan in 1888, then, 1907, A. H. Goldstein rented the building on the north side of the square vacated sometime ago by Keim & McMillan, and expects to remove his wholesale and retail clothing and furnishing stock to his new quarters about the middle of May. By this change he will secure about 2,500 square feet more floor space which he has been much in need of. He will use both floors the upstairs being devoted to the sample room and wholesale department and the downstairs to the retail store, they then sold to Carter in 1919, he moving his store from south side of square which he in turn sold Carter Hardware store in 1946 then known as Carthage Hardware store at 119 east Third street, has been expanded into adjacent 1880 built Hannum building.
.He was 74 years old when he died of occlusion coronary artery, heart disease. Contributory cause was acute appendicitis.
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant:
Rex Carter 315 Bellaire Place, Carthage, MO
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
WEDNESDAY MAY 5, 1954
END COMES TO C.C. CARTER
RETIRED HARDWARE MAN DIES EARLY TODAY
Funeral of Prominent Carthage Resident, 74, Will be Held Friday Afternoon
Charles C. Carter, 74, prominent Carthage citizen and retired hardware dealer, died at 2 o'clock this morning in the McCune-Brooks Hospital where he had been a patient since April 17.
Mr. Carter was born on a farm in Labette County, Kansas, November 26, 1879 and came to Carthage with his parents when a year old. His father, John E. Carter was a pioneer merchant.
Mr. Carter graduated from a business school in Sedalia in 1904 then became bookkeeper and clerk for the Jay H. Butcher Carriage and Harness Company in Carthage.
In 1910 he became secretary treasurer and manager for the Carthage Marble and Building Stone Company and continued with this corporation for eight years.
In 1910 he bought half interest in the Powelson-Perkins Hardware company on the south side of the square and three weeks later bought the other half interest changing the name to Carter Hardware Co.
In 1919 he purchased the pioneer Kohn (sic, Keim) & McMillan hardware store on the north side of the square and moved the Carter Hardware Company to that location where he was thereafter in business. He also purchased hardware stores in Sarcoxie and Webb City and operated them in addition to the Carthage store.
On March 1, 1946 he sold his Carthage store to Malcolm G. Wright and Ed Mitchell and since that time it has been the Carthage Hardware store.
Mr. Carter was a former president of the Carthage Chamber of Commerce, was state president of the Retail Hardware Association in 1926 and 1927 and was president of the National Retail Hardware Association in 1935 after having been many years on that national association's board of directors.
Mr. Carter married June 21, 1905 to Miss Myrtle Hough of Carthage, who survives him.
He is also survived by a son, C. Rex Carter of Carthage, and a daughter, Mrs. Ivan Rogers of Artesia, New Mexico, who was here at the time of his death. Four brothers also survive;
*John M. Carter
*Walter E. Carter both of Carthage
*Roy R. Carter of Jasper
*Max H. Carter of St. Louis
Another brother, James D. Carter is deceased. Another brother Roy R. Carter
There are 4 grandchildren;
*Curtis Rex Carter, Jr., a student at Houston, Texas
*Constance Sue Carter, Carthage
*Charles E. Rhode II, a student at Albuquerque, N.M.
*James D. Rohde a student at Aurora
Dr. Margaret Carter of St. Louis and Mrs. Eugene McGaughey of Carthage are nieces and Winston M. Carter of Carthage, is a nephew.
Burial Park Cemetery under the direction of Knell Mortuary. Members of the Rhoda Fairchild chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution will attend the services in a body.
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Carthage Evening Press
Wednesday, July 10, 1935-Page Five
ARTICLE ON CHARLES C. CARTER
HARDWARE AGE TELLS OF HIS BUSINESS CAREER
Started as Bookkeeper for Jay Butcher-Recently Elected Head of National Association
Charles C. Carter, Carthage hardware dealer who recently was elected president of the National Retail Hardware association, is the subject of an article in the Hardware Age.
Charles C. Carter, of Carthage, Mo., was chosen president at the thirty-sixth annual congress of the National Retail Hardware association of the Hotel Statler, Detroit, Mich., June 20, 1935. He is the second Missourian to be honored with this office, John Campbell, Bowling Green, Mo., having served in 1919-20. He succeeds Nat E. Given of Bemidji, Minn.
Born 55 years ago in Labette county, Kans., Mr. Carter, at a very early age, moved to Jasper county, Mo., where he now resides. His home city, Carthage, has a population of 11,000 with 250,000 people in its trading area. In addition to the Carthage Hardware Co., Carthage has the two other hardware stores--the Reynolds Hardware Co., and B. E. Wetherell.
Mr. Carter started his business career in 1904 with Jay H. Butcher Carriage and Harness Company of Carthage, as bookkeeper. In the following four years he was successfully employed with retail carriage, harness, hardware, and lumber establishments. The Carthage Marble and Building Stone Company, operating marble quarries and a cut stone finishing place, elected him secretary treasurer and manager in 1910. From 1904 to 1918, Mr. Carter never lost a day of employment.
In 1918, Mr. Carter purchased a half interest in the Powelson Perkins Hardware Co. in his home town. There weeks later he acquired the remaining half interest and the firm's name was changed to Carter Hardware Co.
A year later, together with a younger brother, he purchased the old established business of Keim & McMillan and consolidated the two stocks in the present location, the north and central side of the courthouse square.
The Carter Hardware Company features: radio, electric appliances, chinaware, glassware, kitchenware, sporting goods, wheel goods, dairy supplies, paints, window glass, wallpaper, roofing, tools, stoves, furnaces and sheet metal work.
Through devoting much of his energy to his own establishment, Mr. Carter finds time to participate actively in the affairs of his community. He served as president of the local Chamber of Commerce; member of the Board of Trustees and treasurer of the Ozark Wesleyan College; chairman of Carthage L.R.C.A.; and chairman of the advisory committee of the F.H.A.
Since joining the Missouri Retail Hardware association in 1918, Mr. Carter has attended each successive convention and taken an active part. The Missouri association elected him president of the organization in 1926 and he served for two terms. At the Boston congress in 1928, Mr. Carter was elected to the Board of Governors of the National Retail Hardware association to fill the vacancy occasioned by the elevation of J. Charles Ross of Kalamazoo, Mich., to the presidency of the association. As a director on the board, Mr. Carter represented the Fifth district, comprising the Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Panhandle associations.
Mr. Carter married Miss Myrtle Hough in 1905. Their daughter, Charlyn, is now Mrs. C. E. Rohde of Columbia, MO. Rex, their son, holds the position of private secretary to the Bank of Carthage.
Carthage, whose slogan is "The Front Door to the Ozarks," is in southwestern Missouri and is the county seat of Jasper county. The surrounding territory is especially well suited to agriculture, its soil and favorable farming conditions making for excellent crop yields, diversified crops and profitable livestock enterprises. Dairying, beef raising and sheep growing are as profitable as in any section of the united states and fish and game are found in abundance.
The Carthage marble industry consists of seven quarries from which 2,500 carloads of "Ozark Gray" veined and veinless marble, valued at $1,500,000 are shipped annually. Other plants make yearly shipment totaling more than 1,000 cars of limestone and limestone products. A powder mill manufactures $2,500,000 worth of powder annually.
Husband of: Myrtle Hough Carter
Residing at 817 S. Maple Street
Carthage, Missouri
Occupation was retired hardware dealer in retail hardware. His last location had a history. Jesse Thacker built the building in year Carthage became a city, 1873, starting his hardware business. His building acted as a fire wall during the 1880 devastating fire along north side of square. It was sold following his death to Henry Miller Keim and Joseph Moore McMillan in 1888, then, 1907, A. H. Goldstein rented the building on the north side of the square vacated sometime ago by Keim & McMillan, and expects to remove his wholesale and retail clothing and furnishing stock to his new quarters about the middle of May. By this change he will secure about 2,500 square feet more floor space which he has been much in need of. He will use both floors the upstairs being devoted to the sample room and wholesale department and the downstairs to the retail store, they then sold to Carter in 1919, he moving his store from south side of square which he in turn sold Carter Hardware store in 1946 then known as Carthage Hardware store at 119 east Third street, has been expanded into adjacent 1880 built Hannum building.
.He was 74 years old when he died of occlusion coronary artery, heart disease. Contributory cause was acute appendicitis.
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant:
Rex Carter 315 Bellaire Place, Carthage, MO
______________
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
WEDNESDAY MAY 5, 1954
END COMES TO C.C. CARTER
RETIRED HARDWARE MAN DIES EARLY TODAY
Funeral of Prominent Carthage Resident, 74, Will be Held Friday Afternoon
Charles C. Carter, 74, prominent Carthage citizen and retired hardware dealer, died at 2 o'clock this morning in the McCune-Brooks Hospital where he had been a patient since April 17.
Mr. Carter was born on a farm in Labette County, Kansas, November 26, 1879 and came to Carthage with his parents when a year old. His father, John E. Carter was a pioneer merchant.
Mr. Carter graduated from a business school in Sedalia in 1904 then became bookkeeper and clerk for the Jay H. Butcher Carriage and Harness Company in Carthage.
In 1910 he became secretary treasurer and manager for the Carthage Marble and Building Stone Company and continued with this corporation for eight years.
In 1910 he bought half interest in the Powelson-Perkins Hardware company on the south side of the square and three weeks later bought the other half interest changing the name to Carter Hardware Co.
In 1919 he purchased the pioneer Kohn (sic, Keim) & McMillan hardware store on the north side of the square and moved the Carter Hardware Company to that location where he was thereafter in business. He also purchased hardware stores in Sarcoxie and Webb City and operated them in addition to the Carthage store.
On March 1, 1946 he sold his Carthage store to Malcolm G. Wright and Ed Mitchell and since that time it has been the Carthage Hardware store.
Mr. Carter was a former president of the Carthage Chamber of Commerce, was state president of the Retail Hardware Association in 1926 and 1927 and was president of the National Retail Hardware Association in 1935 after having been many years on that national association's board of directors.
Mr. Carter married June 21, 1905 to Miss Myrtle Hough of Carthage, who survives him.
He is also survived by a son, C. Rex Carter of Carthage, and a daughter, Mrs. Ivan Rogers of Artesia, New Mexico, who was here at the time of his death. Four brothers also survive;
*John M. Carter
*Walter E. Carter both of Carthage
*Roy R. Carter of Jasper
*Max H. Carter of St. Louis
Another brother, James D. Carter is deceased. Another brother Roy R. Carter
There are 4 grandchildren;
*Curtis Rex Carter, Jr., a student at Houston, Texas
*Constance Sue Carter, Carthage
*Charles E. Rhode II, a student at Albuquerque, N.M.
*James D. Rohde a student at Aurora
Dr. Margaret Carter of St. Louis and Mrs. Eugene McGaughey of Carthage are nieces and Winston M. Carter of Carthage, is a nephew.
Burial Park Cemetery under the direction of Knell Mortuary. Members of the Rhoda Fairchild chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution will attend the services in a body.
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Carthage Evening Press
Wednesday, July 10, 1935-Page Five
ARTICLE ON CHARLES C. CARTER
HARDWARE AGE TELLS OF HIS BUSINESS CAREER
Started as Bookkeeper for Jay Butcher-Recently Elected Head of National Association
Charles C. Carter, Carthage hardware dealer who recently was elected president of the National Retail Hardware association, is the subject of an article in the Hardware Age.
Charles C. Carter, of Carthage, Mo., was chosen president at the thirty-sixth annual congress of the National Retail Hardware association of the Hotel Statler, Detroit, Mich., June 20, 1935. He is the second Missourian to be honored with this office, John Campbell, Bowling Green, Mo., having served in 1919-20. He succeeds Nat E. Given of Bemidji, Minn.
Born 55 years ago in Labette county, Kans., Mr. Carter, at a very early age, moved to Jasper county, Mo., where he now resides. His home city, Carthage, has a population of 11,000 with 250,000 people in its trading area. In addition to the Carthage Hardware Co., Carthage has the two other hardware stores--the Reynolds Hardware Co., and B. E. Wetherell.
Mr. Carter started his business career in 1904 with Jay H. Butcher Carriage and Harness Company of Carthage, as bookkeeper. In the following four years he was successfully employed with retail carriage, harness, hardware, and lumber establishments. The Carthage Marble and Building Stone Company, operating marble quarries and a cut stone finishing place, elected him secretary treasurer and manager in 1910. From 1904 to 1918, Mr. Carter never lost a day of employment.
In 1918, Mr. Carter purchased a half interest in the Powelson Perkins Hardware Co. in his home town. There weeks later he acquired the remaining half interest and the firm's name was changed to Carter Hardware Co.
A year later, together with a younger brother, he purchased the old established business of Keim & McMillan and consolidated the two stocks in the present location, the north and central side of the courthouse square.
The Carter Hardware Company features: radio, electric appliances, chinaware, glassware, kitchenware, sporting goods, wheel goods, dairy supplies, paints, window glass, wallpaper, roofing, tools, stoves, furnaces and sheet metal work.
Through devoting much of his energy to his own establishment, Mr. Carter finds time to participate actively in the affairs of his community. He served as president of the local Chamber of Commerce; member of the Board of Trustees and treasurer of the Ozark Wesleyan College; chairman of Carthage L.R.C.A.; and chairman of the advisory committee of the F.H.A.
Since joining the Missouri Retail Hardware association in 1918, Mr. Carter has attended each successive convention and taken an active part. The Missouri association elected him president of the organization in 1926 and he served for two terms. At the Boston congress in 1928, Mr. Carter was elected to the Board of Governors of the National Retail Hardware association to fill the vacancy occasioned by the elevation of J. Charles Ross of Kalamazoo, Mich., to the presidency of the association. As a director on the board, Mr. Carter represented the Fifth district, comprising the Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Panhandle associations.
Mr. Carter married Miss Myrtle Hough in 1905. Their daughter, Charlyn, is now Mrs. C. E. Rohde of Columbia, MO. Rex, their son, holds the position of private secretary to the Bank of Carthage.
Carthage, whose slogan is "The Front Door to the Ozarks," is in southwestern Missouri and is the county seat of Jasper county. The surrounding territory is especially well suited to agriculture, its soil and favorable farming conditions making for excellent crop yields, diversified crops and profitable livestock enterprises. Dairying, beef raising and sheep growing are as profitable as in any section of the united states and fish and game are found in abundance.
The Carthage marble industry consists of seven quarries from which 2,500 carloads of "Ozark Gray" veined and veinless marble, valued at $1,500,000 are shipped annually. Other plants make yearly shipment totaling more than 1,000 cars of limestone and limestone products. A powder mill manufactures $2,500,000 worth of powder annually.
s/o John E. Carter and Prudence Horn
Husband of: Myrtle Hough Carter
Residing at 817 S. Maple Street
Carthage, Missouri
Occupation was retired hardware dealer in retail hardware. His last location had a history. Jesse Thacker built the building in year Carthage became a city, 1873, starting his hardware business. His building acted as a fire wall during the 1880 devastating fire along north side of square. It was sold following his death to Henry Miller Keim and Joseph Moore McMillan in 1888, then, 1907, A. H. Goldstein rented the building on the north side of the square vacated sometime ago by Keim & McMillan, and expects to remove his wholesale and retail clothing and furnishing stock to his new quarters about the middle of May. By this change he will secure about 2,500 square feet more floor space which he has been much in need of. He will use both floors the upstairs being devoted to the sample room and wholesale department and the downstairs to the retail store, they then sold to Carter in 1919, he moving his store from south side of square which he in turn sold Carter Hardware store in 1946 then known as Carthage Hardware store at 119 east Third street, has been expanded into adjacent 1880 built Hannum building.
.He was 74 years old when he died of occlusion coronary artery, heart disease. Contributory cause was acute appendicitis.
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant:
Rex Carter 315 Bellaire Place, Carthage, MO
______________
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
WEDNESDAY MAY 5, 1954
END COMES TO C.C. CARTER
RETIRED HARDWARE MAN DIES EARLY TODAY
Funeral of Prominent Carthage Resident, 74, Will be Held Friday Afternoon
Charles C. Carter, 74, prominent Carthage citizen and retired hardware dealer, died at 2 o'clock this morning in the McCune-Brooks Hospital where he had been a patient since April 17.
Mr. Carter was born on a farm in Labette County, Kansas, November 26, 1879 and came to Carthage with his parents when a year old. His father, John E. Carter was a pioneer merchant.
Mr. Carter graduated from a business school in Sedalia in 1904 then became bookkeeper and clerk for the Jay H. Butcher Carriage and Harness Company in Carthage.
In 1910 he became secretary treasurer and manager for the Carthage Marble and Building Stone Company and continued with this corporation for eight years.
In 1910 he bought half interest in the Powelson-Perkins Hardware company on the south side of the square and three weeks later bought the other half interest changing the name to Carter Hardware Co.
In 1919 he purchased the pioneer Kohn (sic, Keim) & McMillan hardware store on the north side of the square and moved the Carter Hardware Company to that location where he was thereafter in business. He also purchased hardware stores in Sarcoxie and Webb City and operated them in addition to the Carthage store.
On March 1, 1946 he sold his Carthage store to Malcolm G. Wright and Ed Mitchell and since that time it has been the Carthage Hardware store.
Mr. Carter was a former president of the Carthage Chamber of Commerce, was state president of the Retail Hardware Association in 1926 and 1927 and was president of the National Retail Hardware Association in 1935 after having been many years on that national association's board of directors.
Mr. Carter married June 21, 1905 to Miss Myrtle Hough of Carthage, who survives him.
He is also survived by a son, C. Rex Carter of Carthage, and a daughter, Mrs. Ivan Rogers of Artesia, New Mexico, who was here at the time of his death. Four brothers also survive;
*John M. Carter
*Walter E. Carter both of Carthage
*Roy R. Carter of Jasper
*Max H. Carter of St. Louis
Another brother, James D. Carter is deceased. Another brother Roy R. Carter
There are 4 grandchildren;
*Curtis Rex Carter, Jr., a student at Houston, Texas
*Constance Sue Carter, Carthage
*Charles E. Rhode II, a student at Albuquerque, N.M.
*James D. Rohde a student at Aurora
Dr. Margaret Carter of St. Louis and Mrs. Eugene McGaughey of Carthage are nieces and Winston M. Carter of Carthage, is a nephew.
Burial Park Cemetery under the direction of Knell Mortuary. Members of the Rhoda Fairchild chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution will attend the services in a body.
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Carthage Evening Press
Wednesday, July 10, 1935-Page Five
ARTICLE ON CHARLES C. CARTER
HARDWARE AGE TELLS OF HIS BUSINESS CAREER
Started as Bookkeeper for Jay Butcher-Recently Elected Head of National Association
Charles C. Carter, Carthage hardware dealer who recently was elected president of the National Retail Hardware association, is the subject of an article in the Hardware Age.
Charles C. Carter, of Carthage, Mo., was chosen president at the thirty-sixth annual congress of the National Retail Hardware association of the Hotel Statler, Detroit, Mich., June 20, 1935. He is the second Missourian to be honored with this office, John Campbell, Bowling Green, Mo., having served in 1919-20. He succeeds Nat E. Given of Bemidji, Minn.
Born 55 years ago in Labette county, Kans., Mr. Carter, at a very early age, moved to Jasper county, Mo., where he now resides. His home city, Carthage, has a population of 11,000 with 250,000 people in its trading area. In addition to the Carthage Hardware Co., Carthage has the two other hardware stores--the Reynolds Hardware Co., and B. E. Wetherell.
Mr. Carter started his business career in 1904 with Jay H. Butcher Carriage and Harness Company of Carthage, as bookkeeper. In the following four years he was successfully employed with retail carriage, harness, hardware, and lumber establishments. The Carthage Marble and Building Stone Company, operating marble quarries and a cut stone finishing place, elected him secretary treasurer and manager in 1910. From 1904 to 1918, Mr. Carter never lost a day of employment.
In 1918, Mr. Carter purchased a half interest in the Powelson Perkins Hardware Co. in his home town. There weeks later he acquired the remaining half interest and the firm's name was changed to Carter Hardware Co.
A year later, together with a younger brother, he purchased the old established business of Keim & McMillan and consolidated the two stocks in the present location, the north and central side of the courthouse square.
The Carter Hardware Company features: radio, electric appliances, chinaware, glassware, kitchenware, sporting goods, wheel goods, dairy supplies, paints, window glass, wallpaper, roofing, tools, stoves, furnaces and sheet metal work.
Through devoting much of his energy to his own establishment, Mr. Carter finds time to participate actively in the affairs of his community. He served as president of the local Chamber of Commerce; member of the Board of Trustees and treasurer of the Ozark Wesleyan College; chairman of Carthage L.R.C.A.; and chairman of the advisory committee of the F.H.A.
Since joining the Missouri Retail Hardware association in 1918, Mr. Carter has attended each successive convention and taken an active part. The Missouri association elected him president of the organization in 1926 and he served for two terms. At the Boston congress in 1928, Mr. Carter was elected to the Board of Governors of the National Retail Hardware association to fill the vacancy occasioned by the elevation of J. Charles Ross of Kalamazoo, Mich., to the presidency of the association. As a director on the board, Mr. Carter represented the Fifth district, comprising the Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Panhandle associations.
Mr. Carter married Miss Myrtle Hough in 1905. Their daughter, Charlyn, is now Mrs. C. E. Rohde of Columbia, MO. Rex, their son, holds the position of private secretary to the Bank of Carthage.
Carthage, whose slogan is "The Front Door to the Ozarks," is in southwestern Missouri and is the county seat of Jasper county. The surrounding territory is especially well suited to agriculture, its soil and favorable farming conditions making for excellent crop yields, diversified crops and profitable livestock enterprises. Dairying, beef raising and sheep growing are as profitable as in any section of the united states and fish and game are found in abundance.
The Carthage marble industry consists of seven quarries from which 2,500 carloads of "Ozark Gray" veined and veinless marble, valued at $1,500,000 are shipped annually. Other plants make yearly shipment totaling more than 1,000 cars of limestone and limestone products. A powder mill manufactures $2,500,000 worth of powder annually.
Husband of: Myrtle Hough Carter
Residing at 817 S. Maple Street
Carthage, Missouri
Occupation was retired hardware dealer in retail hardware. His last location had a history. Jesse Thacker built the building in year Carthage became a city, 1873, starting his hardware business. His building acted as a fire wall during the 1880 devastating fire along north side of square. It was sold following his death to Henry Miller Keim and Joseph Moore McMillan in 1888, then, 1907, A. H. Goldstein rented the building on the north side of the square vacated sometime ago by Keim & McMillan, and expects to remove his wholesale and retail clothing and furnishing stock to his new quarters about the middle of May. By this change he will secure about 2,500 square feet more floor space which he has been much in need of. He will use both floors the upstairs being devoted to the sample room and wholesale department and the downstairs to the retail store, they then sold to Carter in 1919, he moving his store from south side of square which he in turn sold Carter Hardware store in 1946 then known as Carthage Hardware store at 119 east Third street, has been expanded into adjacent 1880 built Hannum building.
.He was 74 years old when he died of occlusion coronary artery, heart disease. Contributory cause was acute appendicitis.
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
Informant:
Rex Carter 315 Bellaire Place, Carthage, MO
______________
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
WEDNESDAY MAY 5, 1954
END COMES TO C.C. CARTER
RETIRED HARDWARE MAN DIES EARLY TODAY
Funeral of Prominent Carthage Resident, 74, Will be Held Friday Afternoon
Charles C. Carter, 74, prominent Carthage citizen and retired hardware dealer, died at 2 o'clock this morning in the McCune-Brooks Hospital where he had been a patient since April 17.
Mr. Carter was born on a farm in Labette County, Kansas, November 26, 1879 and came to Carthage with his parents when a year old. His father, John E. Carter was a pioneer merchant.
Mr. Carter graduated from a business school in Sedalia in 1904 then became bookkeeper and clerk for the Jay H. Butcher Carriage and Harness Company in Carthage.
In 1910 he became secretary treasurer and manager for the Carthage Marble and Building Stone Company and continued with this corporation for eight years.
In 1910 he bought half interest in the Powelson-Perkins Hardware company on the south side of the square and three weeks later bought the other half interest changing the name to Carter Hardware Co.
In 1919 he purchased the pioneer Kohn (sic, Keim) & McMillan hardware store on the north side of the square and moved the Carter Hardware Company to that location where he was thereafter in business. He also purchased hardware stores in Sarcoxie and Webb City and operated them in addition to the Carthage store.
On March 1, 1946 he sold his Carthage store to Malcolm G. Wright and Ed Mitchell and since that time it has been the Carthage Hardware store.
Mr. Carter was a former president of the Carthage Chamber of Commerce, was state president of the Retail Hardware Association in 1926 and 1927 and was president of the National Retail Hardware Association in 1935 after having been many years on that national association's board of directors.
Mr. Carter married June 21, 1905 to Miss Myrtle Hough of Carthage, who survives him.
He is also survived by a son, C. Rex Carter of Carthage, and a daughter, Mrs. Ivan Rogers of Artesia, New Mexico, who was here at the time of his death. Four brothers also survive;
*John M. Carter
*Walter E. Carter both of Carthage
*Roy R. Carter of Jasper
*Max H. Carter of St. Louis
Another brother, James D. Carter is deceased. Another brother Roy R. Carter
There are 4 grandchildren;
*Curtis Rex Carter, Jr., a student at Houston, Texas
*Constance Sue Carter, Carthage
*Charles E. Rhode II, a student at Albuquerque, N.M.
*James D. Rohde a student at Aurora
Dr. Margaret Carter of St. Louis and Mrs. Eugene McGaughey of Carthage are nieces and Winston M. Carter of Carthage, is a nephew.
Burial Park Cemetery under the direction of Knell Mortuary. Members of the Rhoda Fairchild chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution will attend the services in a body.
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Carthage Evening Press
Wednesday, July 10, 1935-Page Five
ARTICLE ON CHARLES C. CARTER
HARDWARE AGE TELLS OF HIS BUSINESS CAREER
Started as Bookkeeper for Jay Butcher-Recently Elected Head of National Association
Charles C. Carter, Carthage hardware dealer who recently was elected president of the National Retail Hardware association, is the subject of an article in the Hardware Age.
Charles C. Carter, of Carthage, Mo., was chosen president at the thirty-sixth annual congress of the National Retail Hardware association of the Hotel Statler, Detroit, Mich., June 20, 1935. He is the second Missourian to be honored with this office, John Campbell, Bowling Green, Mo., having served in 1919-20. He succeeds Nat E. Given of Bemidji, Minn.
Born 55 years ago in Labette county, Kans., Mr. Carter, at a very early age, moved to Jasper county, Mo., where he now resides. His home city, Carthage, has a population of 11,000 with 250,000 people in its trading area. In addition to the Carthage Hardware Co., Carthage has the two other hardware stores--the Reynolds Hardware Co., and B. E. Wetherell.
Mr. Carter started his business career in 1904 with Jay H. Butcher Carriage and Harness Company of Carthage, as bookkeeper. In the following four years he was successfully employed with retail carriage, harness, hardware, and lumber establishments. The Carthage Marble and Building Stone Company, operating marble quarries and a cut stone finishing place, elected him secretary treasurer and manager in 1910. From 1904 to 1918, Mr. Carter never lost a day of employment.
In 1918, Mr. Carter purchased a half interest in the Powelson Perkins Hardware Co. in his home town. There weeks later he acquired the remaining half interest and the firm's name was changed to Carter Hardware Co.
A year later, together with a younger brother, he purchased the old established business of Keim & McMillan and consolidated the two stocks in the present location, the north and central side of the courthouse square.
The Carter Hardware Company features: radio, electric appliances, chinaware, glassware, kitchenware, sporting goods, wheel goods, dairy supplies, paints, window glass, wallpaper, roofing, tools, stoves, furnaces and sheet metal work.
Through devoting much of his energy to his own establishment, Mr. Carter finds time to participate actively in the affairs of his community. He served as president of the local Chamber of Commerce; member of the Board of Trustees and treasurer of the Ozark Wesleyan College; chairman of Carthage L.R.C.A.; and chairman of the advisory committee of the F.H.A.
Since joining the Missouri Retail Hardware association in 1918, Mr. Carter has attended each successive convention and taken an active part. The Missouri association elected him president of the organization in 1926 and he served for two terms. At the Boston congress in 1928, Mr. Carter was elected to the Board of Governors of the National Retail Hardware association to fill the vacancy occasioned by the elevation of J. Charles Ross of Kalamazoo, Mich., to the presidency of the association. As a director on the board, Mr. Carter represented the Fifth district, comprising the Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Panhandle associations.
Mr. Carter married Miss Myrtle Hough in 1905. Their daughter, Charlyn, is now Mrs. C. E. Rohde of Columbia, MO. Rex, their son, holds the position of private secretary to the Bank of Carthage.
Carthage, whose slogan is "The Front Door to the Ozarks," is in southwestern Missouri and is the county seat of Jasper county. The surrounding territory is especially well suited to agriculture, its soil and favorable farming conditions making for excellent crop yields, diversified crops and profitable livestock enterprises. Dairying, beef raising and sheep growing are as profitable as in any section of the united states and fish and game are found in abundance.
The Carthage marble industry consists of seven quarries from which 2,500 carloads of "Ozark Gray" veined and veinless marble, valued at $1,500,000 are shipped annually. Other plants make yearly shipment totaling more than 1,000 cars of limestone and limestone products. A powder mill manufactures $2,500,000 worth of powder annually.
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