Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-15
LIFE A MODEL ONE
Loving Tribute Paid Late DR.. c.
C. Carter at a Meeting of Cen.
trail Medical Society.
PAPER READ BY DIR. G. L. EYsTER
Close Friend of Deceased During
His Years Of Practice
in the City.

The quarterly meeting of the Iowa
association was held last evening at
the Harper house and was attended
by large number Of the members of
the profession from the various towns
embraced in the district. Supper was
served at $50, after which the bust
ness meeting took place, and the
feature of which was a paper in
n1emoriam of the late DR.. {. {. Carter.
of this city, read by Dr.. G. L. Eyster.
1t was as follows:
perhaps the saddest moments
which come to us in this brief span
of mortal life are those when death
comes to break the ties which life and
association have woven into bonds of
personal love and friendship. The re-
| aliZa Lion of this thought comes most
profoundly To those of us who have
ben most intimately associated with
oar late confrere and colleague. DR.
-harles Crawford Carter whose un-
:, timely death but few days ago so
shocked the community in which he
lived
Charles Crawford Carter was born
in San Francisco. Cal. Dec. 20. 1852.
the son of Elijah and Ann Maria Whit
| ney Carter. His father was native
of Vermont. his mother of Massachu-
Setts. both descendants of that rugged
stock of Puritans who early settled
ON the New England coast.
His father was one of the argo-
nauts of 40. going to seek his fortune
in the golden sands of California. and
it was during the residence of his par
cnt- there that ne was born. When
y" was about three years of age. hav-
ing been quite successful i'm their
~"arch fer fortune, his parents remoy-
ID Ia Rock Island, H.. where he grew
To early manhood. when he took up
the study Of medicine. His prelim-
mary education was public school and
"cailemical.
Practitioner of Old School
HE began the study of medicine in
1873 a. a pupil of DIR. james Orne
Whitney. of Pawtucket. Il. l.. his
uncle. practitioner of the old school.
who locked upon his work AZ Il pro-
frssiCn. not Il business. and whose dig !
nificd precepts and example no doubt
had large influence in forming that |
high sense of professional honor and |
courtesy which so markedly charac- |
teriZed DR.. Carter in his relations to !
his patients and confreres.
He graduated in 1876 from Belle |
York. Some ten years afterwards, |
when his years of practical expert |
ence made him peculiarly capable of
absorbing and assimilating the in
struction given, he took an extended |
postgraduate course in New York.
lie was married to Mary Whitney. |
of Pawtuckct. Il. l.. in 1887. TO him |
and wife there were born six children. !
four of whom died in early infancy, |
two surviving their fathers death. |
Richard, IL years of age. and Craw |
ford. aged :. OF his immediate family |
there also survives his wife, two sis
tiers and one brother.
"Dr. Carter was a member of the |
American Medical association. Illinois |
State Medical society. Rock Island |
County Medical society. and various |
other special medical associations. at |
whose meetings he was Il frequent and !
regular attendant.
He was early identified with the
National Guard of Illinois and served |
a. Il surgeon in that organization for
more than twenty years. being ut the
time of his death and for Il number of |
years preceding assistant surgeon gen
eral Illinois National Guard.
He began the practice of medicine |
in Rock Island, H.. in the spring of /
1876. IL was here that the writer. also /
just beginning his professional career
in the same city. first made hi ac-
quaiutance. That acquaintance first
made i'm the flush of youthful hope |
and cndcayor. ripcned through the |
years Of personal and professional as
Sociation into warm friendship that |
no friction ever disturbed.
HIRhmInded and conscientious.
The writer believes that he can pay |
no higher tribute TO Charles Carriers /
professional character than to >ay /
that i'm the p years of his professional |
life he never knew him other than a /
high-minded. upright and cCu~cicH- |
tiouS ply whose conduct to his /
brother practitioners seemed largely /
founded upon those admirable p~iuci-
pies of the golden rule. that unfnr-
tunatcIy 80 few have the courage to
follow.
''-As Il practitioner, DIR. Carter was
astute in diagnosis. careful. iudiciuu~.
painstakiug and successful in treat