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JAMES CARTER, retired farmer; P. O. Conover; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Nov. 14, 1813, and is a son of James Carter, Sr., who was born in New Jersey. During the war of independence, and when but 5 years of age, he came with his parents to Pennsylvania, where he matured, and married Sarah Freel, a native of that State; they emigrated to Ohio, passing through where Cincinnati now stands, when it consisted of three log cabins. They onward pressed to Warren Co., where they entered 100 acres of land, four miles north of Lebanon; here they settled in the wilds, and at once began to open out a farm, which was done in a reasonable time; there they died, after having passed through the pioneer days of Warren Co., he in 1832 and she in 1827; their children were eleven in number, of which all grew to maturity; the above family have possessed an extraordinary degree of health, and boast of never having a physician called to their assistance, not even in the illness of their father, as his disease was what they regarded as incurable (consumption); the family all possess a medium degree of health. James was brought up to farm labor, and obtained a common education; in 1839, he emigrated to Miami Co., purchased his present farm of 80 acres in Sec. 6, Brown Township; this he has since improved and cultivated, and now is one of the finest farms in Brown Township. James Carter, in 1834, united in matrimony with Catherine Williams; she was born in Warren Co., Ohio, in 1816 ; they have trod the path of connubial life for nearly half a century, and are the parents of nine children, of whom one, Jasper, was lost in battling for his country, in 1864 ; the remaining eight are now living, viz., William S., Maria, Joel, Eunice A., Cerelda, George, Jeannette and Charles G.