Jesse Lee Carleton (August 20, 1862 – December 6, 1921) was an American

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

er who competed in the

1904 Summer Olympics The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended s ...

Biography

Jesse Carleton was born in

Cumberland, Maryland Cumberland is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its s ...

. In 1904 he was part of the American team which won the bronze medal. He finished twelfth in this competition. In the individual competition he finished 16th in the qualification and was eliminated in the first round of the match play. Outside of golf, he owned the Carleton Dry Goods Company. He was president of the Missouri State Golf Association for three years, and president of the Sunset Hill Country Club for three years. Jesse Carleton died from a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in St. Louis on December 6, 1921.

References

External links

Profile
American male golfers Amateur golfers Golfers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in golf Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics Golfers from Maryland Sportspeople from Cumberland, Maryland 1862 births 1921 deaths {{US-golf-bio-stub