Richard B. Carter ink manufacturer, was president of the Carter's Ink Company, in Boston and later Cambridge

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, from 1903-1949.

Early life and education

Richard Burrage Carter was born on April 8, 1877, in West Newton, Massachusetts

West Newton, Massachusetts

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, the son of John W. Carter

John W. Carter

John W. Carter was a partner in Carter's Ink Company in Boston and later Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1865 until his death by drowning in 1895. The firm was founded by his cousin, William Carter....

, the head of Careter's Ink, and Helen (Burrage) Carter, his wife. He attended Harvard

Harvard University

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, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa 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.

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,