Richard B. Carter (1877–1949), ink manufacturer, was president of the
Carter's Ink Company
Carter's Ink Company was an American manufacturer of ink and related products, based first in Boston and later in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was once the largest ink manufacturer in the world.[Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...]
and later
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
,
, from 1903-1949.
Early life and education
Richard Burrage Carter was born on April 8, 1877, in
West Newton, Massachusetts
West Newton is one of the thirteen villages within the city of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
Among the oldest of the thirteen Newton villages, the West Newton Village Center is a National Register Historic District. ...
, the son of
John W. Carter, the head of Carter's Ink, and Helen (Burrage) Carter, his wife. He attended
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
, where he became a member of
Phi Beta Kappa
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and received an A.B. in 1898 and an M.A. in 1899.
Career with Carter's Ink
Richard B. Carter was still in college when his father died and was not ready to take the reins of Carter's Ink. He finished his education at Harvard and went to work for the company in 1900 and became its president in 1903 and remained so the rest of his life.
[''Who Was Who in America,'' Vol. 2 (1943-1950) Chicago: A. N. Marquis Company, 1963, p.105.]
Marriages
*On June 28, 1906, Richard B. Carter married Annie I. Waterhouse. She died September 4, 1908.
*On December 28, 1914, he married Elsie Hobart.
Death
Richard B. Carter died June 8, 1949, a resident of West Newton where he had lived for many years in a large redbrick Georgian mansion at 11 Forest Avenue on the corner of Mt. Vernon Street,
References
1877 births
1949 deaths
Fountain pen and ink manufacturers
Harvard University alumni
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