Amon G. Carter
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Amon Giles Carter Sr.
（born Giles Amon Carter; December 11, 1879 – June 23, 1955） was the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a nationally known civic booster for Fort Worth, Texas.
A legacy in his will was used to create Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum, which was founded by his daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson, in January 1961.
Carter was born in Crafton, Texas.
After his mother died in 1892, he moved away from his remaining family, to Bowie, Texas, where he supported himself with a variety of odd jobs.
At those jobs, he learned salesmanship, and became a travelling salesman as a young man.
Bowie residents have recalled that he was one of the original "chicken & bread boys" who sold sandwiches represented as "chicken" to passengers at the rail station during the depression.
The sandwiches, it was thought, were really made of rabbits that the boys had hunted.
To this day Bowie has an annual Chicken & Bread Festival each October.
In May 1905, Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman in Fort Worth.
A few months later, he agreed to help finance and run a new newspaper in town.
The Fort Worth Star printed its first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager.
The Star lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea: raise additional money and purchase his newspaper's main competition, the Fort Worth Telegram.
In November 1908, the Star purchased the Telegram for $100,000, and the two newspapers combined on January 1, 1909, into the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
From 1923 until after World War II, the Star-Telegram...