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C AR T E R
1886 I was born Feb. 26, 1886 of George Carter and
Katherine Buchner at Simcoe, Ontario. I started my
ministry in the Hamilton Conference, Ontario June
1908.
Burford was the first charge I was sent to, a
double charge with a senior and junior minister. We
had five churches with morning and evening services.
Rev. George Lounds was my senior minister and some of
the folks when I was out calling told me he was a
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severe critic. I had not been there long when one Sunday morning I was preaching out at Fairfield south of
Burford and just about the time to begin my sermon
Rev. Lounds walked in and sat in the back pew - my
knees began to knock together so I prayed and ernest
prayer and said, "0 God you must help me through this
service. ••
When it was over Rev. Lounds came to me
and said, "well you did pretty well for a young fellow".
They only left the young ministers on a charge
one yea r then so I was moved
up to the Varney charge
25 miles south of Owen Sound with three churches
by myself only I was under the guidance of Rev . Walter
Wright at Dur ham and he had me exchange pulpits with
him four times that year.
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Next I was sent down to Oxford Center - Curries
Crossing charge south of Woodstock, a double charge
with Joseph Wells as the senior minister • We had
four churches with morning and evening services at
Oxford Center and Curries Crossing.
I was just nice-
ly on my second year there when I received an urgent
invitation from Dr.
c.
B. Allen, district superintend-
ent of the Detroit district to start a new church ao
the next Sunday I was prea ching in Detroi t having
cha nged from one country to another and from one conference to another. Dr. Allen sent me out to start a
new church, the Bethlehem Church, way out Mack Avenue.
He sent Miss Mary
c.
Ma rquiss out as my Deaconess -
she was a hard worker and a good one.
the whole fast growing community
We canvassed
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our first
Church service on Sunday Dec. 8, 1911 and by the first
Sunday in Mar. we took 50 charter members into our
new church.
Mr. Allen
a sked me to appoi nt three of
my laymen and to look for some property on which to
build.
We found three nice pieces, two on side street
the o ther on a main corner.
Then Dr. Allen came out
to see the properties and brought Mr. J. L. Hudson of
the big Hudson department store. Dr. Allen told us we
should build on the main street where our church could
be seen - there were three good sized lots on the
corner of Mack and LaMsy for which they were asking
$32 00 .
My laymen said that is too much money just
for the land on l'lh1ch to build - 1 t was lot of money
in those days.
Mr. Allen said you don't need to
think about the money and Mr. Hudson took out his
check book filled it out for $)200, signed his name,
handed it to me and said, "There go buy the lots".
We did so immediately and startedto build the chapel.
I did not like it in Detroit then, and neither
did my wife whom I married in a few days so we were
sent to the Bell Oak charge. Our second and third
years there were very successful.
We held revivals
with Rev. Frank E. Arthur as our evangelist for ten
weeks altogether in the two years.we were at Bell
Oak and Nicholson churches.
Then we went to Worden for four years and lost
our church there by a cyclone in 1917, a total loss
but we were soon buildihg s new church.
From there
we went to Laporte - Hubbard Memorial churches for
four years.
We were at Sterling and Alger for two
years and near the close of the second year received
a hearty invitation to go to Hemlock where Dr. Frank
Cookson sent us for seven happy years during which
time we bought a church house.
We ha d a very success·
ful revival with Miss Grace Wilson as evangelist.
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Then we went to Samaria for nine years during
which time we had Grace Wilson again for successful
revivals at Samaria and the Lulu churches, and in
1939 we had Rev. George Bennard author of the Old
Rugged Cross for three weeks of successful evangelistic meetings.
I retired in 1952 and am now living at 6?10
w.
Dunbar, Monroe R. No. 1.
1966
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REV. LORNE CARTER, retired mem REV. LORN:&~ ~RTER, reth,ed minher of the Detroit Conference living il stet· of the rleHPoi~ Conference, has takMonroe, planned to leave this week Tues en up r esidence with •his son at 459 Holly
' day f or Florida where he will •be Jocate<Drlve, Oregon, Ohio. He ha'd eXJpected
at 602 15t.~ AvJ~nUJ! jouth, St. P eters-to live alone this summer but found
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Lorne Carter, retired member of the Detroit Conference, attended the sessions
at Adrian which meant that he had attended a total of 56 consecutive scs~1...-l.f'"sions of the conferl!nce.b - ;). 7-fi
REV. LORNE CARTER, reti-red minister of the Detroit Conference, has taken up r esidence with ·his son at 459 Holly
Drive, Oregon, Ohio. He ha'd eXJpected
oo -Jive a:lone this summer but fO'Und
that he was unable to do so. Mr. Garter has been retired ·s ince 1 952.~rf·6~
REV. LORNE CARTER, retired member of the Detroit Conference, died June
28 in St. Charles Hospital in Oregon,
Ohio, where he had been living with a
son, Stanley, for the past year. Prior to'
that he had resided at his retirement home
near Monroe, spending several winters in
St. Petersburg, Fla. The son of George
and Catherine Boughner Carter, he was
born in Simcoe, Ontario, and married Emma Baskett in Brantford, Onta rio, in
June, 1912. Mr. Carter entered the Detroit Conference in 1911 and served the
Fort Street Mission, Belle Oak, Warden,
LaPorte, Sterling, H emlock, Samaria,
Dundee, Addison and Ridgeway charges;
and for a time was conference secretary.
He retired in 1952. Mr. Carter was preceded in death by his wife in May, 1953.
In addition to the son he is survived by
a daughter, Josephine Carter of Ann Arbor; two granddaughters; and two greatgranddaughters. Memorial services were
held July 2 a t the Clegg Memorial Chapel, East Toledo, Ohio, ,-f"31}.. it;~;e~ml'lnt in
the Dundee cemetery. / " ,i.. ..,.
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Carter, Lorne