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Byron J. Carter was born on August 17, 1863, in Jackson County, Michigan, to Squire B. Carter and Martha Crum. His grandfather, Peter T. Carter, was an early settler in Spring Arbor Township, Michigan. In 1885, Byron Carter established the Steam Job Printing and Rubber Stamp Manufacturing business in at 167 Main St., Jackson.
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- August 17, 1863, Jackson, Michigan
The accident happened in December 1910. Both Carter's arm and jaw were broken. Within a few minutes of Carter's accident, two Cadillac engineers, Ernest Sweet and Bill Foltz, arrived and started the lady's car and took Byron Carter to the hospital. Carter's injuries didn't seem serious, but he didn't recover and died a few weeks later of pneumonia.
Byron J. Carter, was an American automotive pioneer. He was a founding partner of the Jackson Automobile Company, and founder of the Cartercar Company.
Feb 27, 2012 · In the winter of 1908, a woman stalled her Cadillac in Belle Island, Michigan, and didn't have the strength to crank the car over. So she sat there. Another driver by the name of Byron Carter happened along and offered to start the stalled Cadillac. Carter was the founder of CarterCar, which was acquired by GM in 1909, largely due to the ...
- Mike Mcnessor
History. After leaving the Jackson Automobile Company due to a disagreement with his business partners over the choice of transmissions in 1905, Byron J. Carter formed the Motorcar Company in Jackson. The firm relocated to Detroit by the end of the year, due to having financing there. Starting in 1907, the company was named Cartercar Company ...
- 1905
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The Cartercar is probably the most well-known and best-built friction drive automobile. Named for Byron J. Carter, an early automobile pioneer, the Cartercar was produced in small quantities in Jackson, MI, between 1903 and 1905 by Byron Carter, by the Motorcar Company of Detroit from 1905 to 1908 and by the Motorcar Company renamed as the Cartercar Company from 1908 to 1915 in Pontiac, MI.
Byron J. Carter was born in Michigan on August 17, 1863 to his parents Squire B and Martha (Crum) Carter. Both his father and his wife were born in New York. Squire Carter was born in NY on January 1, 1837 to Peter J and Sarah (Snyder) Carter and Della, his second wife, was born in October 1875. At the time of the 1880 Census, Byron was 16 ...
