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STANTON
L. CARTER
The opportunity of advancement under the genius
of our institutions where there is push, perseverance and tenacity of purpose
is well illustrated in the life of Stanton L. Carter. In his early manhood he
was a farm laborer; and his only capital was a good constitution and stout
heart. After graduating at the high school, having a desire for mercantile
life, he entered Heald’s Business College, San
Francisco, and received his diploma. His vigorous intellect and grasping mind
was dissatisfied with commercial pursuits and he commenced reading law. Within
two years he was admitted to the bar and in a short time gained a lucrative
practice and front rank in his profession. He is now of the firm of Carter
& Smith, attorneys-at-law, located at Stockton, Cal. They have a large
practice and make a specialty of land titles and land litigation and they are
recognized as authority on all matters relating to realty; their practice
extending not only into all the principal counties of the State but into the
adjoining States as well and in U. S. Courts, and before the Land Department at
Washington. He has steadily declined official position, although he filled the
office of City Attorney for Stockton three years with signal success. Nature
endowed him with a fine form, massive brain and a powerful voice. Firmness,
tenacity and rectitude are leading traits in his character, and his magnetism,
logical reasoning and pleasing address make him a noted advocate and one of the
most effective public speakers in this State. In his marital relations he has
been very fortunate, and his family consists of a beautiful and estimable wife
and three children. He was made a Knight in 1876 at the institution of
Centennial Lodge, No. 38, K. of P., of which he was a charter member, and was
appointed Inside Guard the same evening he received the Knight Rank, and served
successively as Master at Arms, Vice-Chancellor, Chancellor Commander, and Past
Chancellor. In 1880 he was elected a Representative, and served in that
capacity continuously until his election to the office of Grand Chancellor in
1884, and has since represented his Lodge in the Grand Lodge. Immediately upon
his admission to the Grand Lodge he was appointed Chairman of the Committee on
Law and Supervision, and served upon that committee until his election as G.
C., and is now a member of that Committee. His thorough knowledge of Pythian laws caused him to be unanimously selected by the
Grand lodge of 1887 to prepare and compile a Pythian
Digest. This work is replete and carefully revised; containing all decisions of
importance since the introduction of the Order in this State, and has been
pronounced by experts in Pythian law one of the best
compilations ever issued.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Illustrated
Fraternal Directory Including Educational Institutions on the Pacific Coast”,
Page 220, Publ. Bancroft Co., San Francisco. Cal. 1889.
© 2012 Cecelia
M. Setty.
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