Background
Richard Burrage Carter was born on April 8, 1877, in West Newton, Massachusetts, the son of John W. Carter, the head of Careter"s Ink, and Helen (Burrage) Carter, his wife.
Richard Burrage Carter was born on April 8, 1877, in West Newton, Massachusetts, the son of John W. Carter, the head of Careter"s Ink, and Helen (Burrage) Carter, his wife.
He attended Harvard, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received an Bachelor of Arts in 1898 and an Master of Arts
In 1899. 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. On June 28, 1906, 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 Mountain.
Vernon Street.