Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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J. R. Carter, D. D. J OSEPH REDMOND CARTER was born April 27, i860, near old Ebenezer Church in Lawrence County, Mississippi. He was reared on a farm, living at home till twenty-one years of age; having attended the country school for two years of that time. Entered Mississippi College in 1883 and remained till graduation five years later. While in school he paid his way by hatching and working around town for two years; the last three he preached to churches and in this way secured means to finish the course. Went to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for two years. His first pastorate was at Columbia, Mississippi, and churches adjacent. From there he went to Hebron and from thence to Blue Mountain, where he was pastor for five years. One year was spent in Mission work in Tippah Association. In 1903 he took charge of the Baptist Orphanage at Jackson, which position he still holds. Dr. Carter has been twice married; first to Miss Lou Sumrall of Blue Mountain, who died in 1906. Two years later he was married to Miss Ida flowers, who has proved so valuable an aid at the Orphanage. Dr. Carter was made a trus- tee of Mississippi College in 1906. 14

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M 1 R. BROWN has been one of the most faithful and efficient members of the Board of Trustees of Mississippi Col- lege for the past eighteen years. His home is now, and has been for a long time, at Aberdeen, Miss., where he is recognized as one of the best business men, one of the most upright citizens and one of the most useful Christians of that good city. He is secretary of the Board of Directors of the Aberdeen Clothing Company; a director in The People’s Oil Mill and Fer- tilizer Works; a director and first vice-president of the First National Bank; treasurer of the Masonic Lodges of Aberdeen: the Blue Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter and Council, and is a Past Master. He is superintendent and treasurer of the Baptist Sunday School of Aberdeen ; has been a Baptist deacon since 1869 anc s Moderator of the Monroe County Baptist Association. Andrew J. Brown Mr. Brown was born in Alabama in 1841. His father moved to Pontotoc County, Mississippi, in 1892. In those pioneer days school advantages were small in Mississippi, and Mr. Brown spent his early years at hard work on the farm and as clerk in stores. Before he was twenty years old he entered the Confederate serv- ice. He was a member of Company I, 23d Mississippi Regiment, Tillman’s Brig- ade, Loring’s Division, Polk’s Corps, Army of Tennessee. He was in many battles; among them the awful battle of Franklin and the battle of Nashville, where he was captured and carried to Camp Douglass Prison, from which he was not released until June, 1865. When he returned home after the war, on foot, in weariness and disappointment, he returned to the graves of his beloved father and mother, whom he had bidden goodby four years before. At twenty-four years of age, without a home, without money, without clothing, but with a Confederate soldier’s uncon- querable spirit, he took up anew the battle of life. His success has been steady, and his influence has been valuable in many directions. With a beautiful home, a lovely wife, and a noble son, Mr. Brown is passing the afternoon of his life in usefulness and happiness. 3

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Ernest Lott Carter E RNEST LOTT CARTER, of Meridian, was born in Mobile, Ala., in 1870, - to which city his father, Thomas C. Carter, a native Mississippian and a descendant of an old family of Misisssippi, had removed at the close of the Civil War. On the maternal side Mr. Carter is a member of a highly-respected Alabama family. In his fourteenth year his home was changed to Meridian, where he has since resided. In his fifteenth year he entered the service of a local banking institution. Except for a session spent in 1887 -’88 at the University of Mississippi he was continuously connected with this bank, and for a number of years as one of its officers, until late in 1903, when he removed temporarily to Laurel to become managing officer of a hank at that point. In 1905 he became connected with a cotton exporting house at Meridian. In this line of business he is now engaged, in association with a brother. He is a member of the First Baptist Church, Meridian, and is unmarried. He became a member of the Board of Trustees of Mississippi College several years ago and has been deeply interested from that time in the wel- fare and upbuilding of this Institution. 5