Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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WILLIAM S. CARTER
 
            Among the prominent sheep-raisers in Yuba County was William S. 
Carter, who was born in Devonshire, England, March 24, 1866, a son of Robert and 
Diana (Siderfin) Carter.  His father, who was a farmer, died in England at the 
age of sixty years; and his mother passed away when she was sixty-one years old. 
 Robert Carter and his wife were the parents of four boys:  Fred, Jack, Robert 
and William.  William S. Carter was educated in the Grammar Schools in England, 
and also attended a business college for six months.  When a young man he 
started working for wages on ranches in his native land.  In 1893 he came to 
California and settled ten miles northeast of Wheatland, where he engaged in 
sheep-raising.  He rented the Hunt & Hale ranch of 10,000 acres and ran 4,000 to 
5,000 head of sheep on it.  At the same time he leased an entire township near 
Cisco, Placer County, where he ran his sheep during the summer.  Nine years ago 
Mr. Carter sold his sheep business to O. R. Hutchinson and has lived retired 
ever since.
            On September 3, 1910, William S. Carter was united in marriage, at 
Sacramento, with Mrs. Ida Ellen (Jones) Hall, who was born on the Jones ranch on 
the Smartsville-Wheatland road, about ten miles northeast of Wheatland.  She was 
the daughter of David Nevens and Mary Elizabeth (Young) Jones, whose sketch is 
given elsewhere in this volume.  Mrs. Carter was the widow of J. C. Hall, a 
native of Colorado.  She had married Mr. Hall at Sacramento, on August 7, 1893, 
and they were the parents of two daughters:  Lola, Mrs. Charles Stafford of Yuba 
City; and Lilas, who resides at her stepfather�s home.  Mr. Hall passed away in 
June, 1901.  Mrs. Carter died on September 6, 1923, mourned by a large circle of 
loving relatives and friends.
            William S. Carter is a Republican in national questions, but in all 
local affairs he stands for progressive measures and general development of 
resources.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1182