American editor, born in Albany, NY, on the 5th of February 1819; died in Cambridge, MA, on the 15th of February 1879. His education was obtained at the common schools and at a Jesuit college of Chambly, Canada. In 1841 he started, in company with James Russell Lowell, a magazine called The Pioneer, of which only three numbers were issued. In 1847 he was private secretary to the historian Prescott, and after the latter’s death wrote an elaborate account of his habits and character. In 1851 he became editor of the Boston Commonwealth, the organ of the Free Soil party. In 1855 Mr. Carter was one of the editors of the Boston Telegraph; the following year he edited the Atlas; from 1857 to 1859 he was Washington correspondent for the New York Tribune; from 1864 to 1869 edited the Rochester Democrat; and from 1870 to 1873 edited Appleton’s Journal. Mr. Carter wrote important articles in the first edition of the American Cyclopædia; the articles on Egypt, Hindustan and the history of the United States being by him. He assisted in a revision of that cyclopædia. Mr. Carter traveled in Europe for his health; wrote A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England, and at the time of his death left an incomplete volume of memoirs.
