Levi Carter was a territorial pioneer and rugged frontiersman widely known in early days as a pushing government contractor a freighter a railroad contractor and later as the head of one of the most prosperous manufacturing enterprises of Omaha, The Carter White Lead Works. Mr Carter was born on a farm in Belknap county N H in 1830 and died in Omaha Neb Nov 7, 1903. Both of his grandsires were soldiers in the Revolutionary war His paternal grandfather Moses Carter was a native of Massachusetts but removed to New Hampshire when he was about twenty five years old and lived there the rest of his days. He was a farmer and a soldier and in politics a Jeffersonian democrat. His son Levi, father of the Levi Carter of whom we write, died in 1894. In his youth he acquired a common school education. In early life he was a democrat but subsequently became a republican. He was a man of considerable consequence in the vicinity of his home and at one time served as a county commissioner. About the year 1805 he married Polly Piper daughter of Stephen Piper a farmer and a soldier of the Revolution. Both father and daughter were natives of New Hampshire. Polly Piper Carter's education was as complete as could be afforded by the common schools of her native state. She and her husband were both very devout members of the Baptist church. She was the mother of ten children the seventh being Levi Carter, Jr. who attended the district school near his rural home during his early youth and then an academy in New Hampton until his twentieth year. Upon leaving school he learned carpentering. He remained in New Hampshire until 1855 when he migrated west, and after working at his trade for two years in Illinois and Wisconsin, he settled at Nebraska City in 1857, where he lived for the succeeding ten years removing in 1867 to Omaha. While he lived in Nebraska City he was engaged in freighting across the plains, the last seven years of that time being in partnership with Gen. Isaac Coe under the firm name of Coe & Carter. Closing out their business at Nebraska City Messrs Coe & Carter engaged in railroad contracting in which they continued until 1894, after which time they engaged in various enterprises until the firm was dissolved in 1898. Meantime in 1888, Mr. Carter had bought the Omaha White Lead Co and incorporated it during the same year as the Carter White Lead Co. This company now has its principal factory in Chicago but its establishment at east Omaha was the original factory. The Chicago plant is twice as large as that at Omaha and the two afford employment to about eighty men It is among the biggest white lead concerns in the country, and under Mr. Carter's management came to be known in the commercial affairs of all the leading cities of the United States. Mr. Carter was a democrat whose fealty to his party never wavered He was a member of the Omaha club and the Omaha Commercial club. He was married in 1872 to Miss Salina C Bliss a native of Chicago 111 a daughter of Geo. Bliss and niece of Gen. Isaac Coe. Mrs. Carter survives her husband and still resides in Omaha Mr. Carter was recognized as a shrewd progressive and far seeing business man and among his personal acquaintances as a good citizen and a socially companionable gentleman of charitable impulses.

Illustrated History of Nebraska Volume 1
1907 pg 611