From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and  
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902. 
 
Typed by E.J. Heinemann 
 
p. 632 
 
JOHN T. CARTER, A. M. M. D., whose prestige as a physician and surgeon  
is second to none in this section of the state, has been located in  
practice at Triadelphia since 1878.  He was born on a farm in Ohio  
county, West Virginia, which his father also claimed as his birthplace.  
His grandfather purchased this farm at an early day, and it has  
remained in the possession of members of the family for more than one  
hundred years. 
    Richard Carter, the Doctor's father, was born in 1813, and died at 
the age of seventy-four years.  He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and his  
ancestors came to this country long before the Revolutionary period. 
    Dr. J. T. Carter prepared at Washington and Jefferson College,  
Washington, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1871, from Princeton College  
at Princeton, New Jersey.  He then completed a course in the study of  
medicine in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati.  Through a  
competitive examination, he became resident physician at the Good  
Samaritan Hospital in that city, and subsequently rose to the position  
of physician in charge.  He then served as assistant superintendent and  
physician in a hospital at Boston, Massachusetts.   In 1878, he located  
in Triadelphia, and formed a partnership with Dr. J. H. Storer, who had  
been engaged in practice there for thirty years.  This association  
continued about ten years, and since them Dr. Carter has practiced  
alone.  He is a man of high character and enjoys to a marked degree the  
confidence and esteem of his patients and of his fellow citizens in  
general.  He has mastered his profession in a manner that has brought  
him prominence in the community and well deserved success.  During his  
residence in Cincinnati, he gained through a competitive examination  
the Bartholow prize.  He is a member of the West Virginia Medical  
Society, and an honorary member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.  
Fraternally, he has been a member of Triadelphia Lodge, No. 94, I. O.  
O. F., for eighteen years, has passed through the different chairs, and  
upon two occasions was sent as a representative to the grand lodge. 
    Dr. Carter was married, in 1885, to Harriet Webb, a daughter of Dr. 
J. W. and Mary (Shumate) Webb.   Dr. Webb, who was a minister of the  
Gospel for more than fifty years, and who died at the age of seventy  
years, was a noted Methodist Episcopal minister of West Virginia, and  
was presiding elder for many years.  Dr. and Mrs. Carter have one  
child, a daughter Grace, who was born September, 1888.  They are  
members of the Stone Presbyterian church.  In 1898, the Doctor built a  
10 room house, of two and a half stories;  it is equipped in modern  
style, has a private water system, gas heaters in each room, and is the  
best residence in Triadelphia.