Solano County Biographies

ROBERT C. CARTER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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is a native of Reding, England, and born February 3, 1834, emigrating to America 
with his parents in 1841, the family taking up their residence in Brooklyn, New 
York, where the subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of 
that city, and where he resided until March, 1852, when he came to California, 
remaining in San Francisco until 1859, when he came to old Rio Vista, in company 
with his father, Robert Carter, who had come to this State. They carried on a 
fish cannery, it being the first one operated on this coast. This business they 
followed until their buildings were swept away by the flood of 1862.  The 
subject then moved to Rio Vista and conducted a small cannery business until 
1865, when he opened a tin store.  In 1875, he originated and carried out the 
plan for supplying his town with water from the river.  Married, February 3, 
1865, Miss Susan Davis, of New York City, and born May 13, 1838; have one child 
living, Robert D., born January 6, 1866.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 470