JOHN WADDIE CARTER, JR JOHN WADDIE CARTER, JR. Entering, after classical, technical and professional training, the profession in which his honored father gained standing and prominence, the law, John Waddie Carter, Jr., has for one year been a legal practitioner of Martinsville, Henry county, Virginia. Confronted with the inspiring example, not only of the useful life of his father, but of the careers of his ancestors, whose names appear brillantly in the history of Virginia, in their achievements he has an ever-present ideal. Mr. Carter is a son of John Waddie (1) and grandson of James Hill Carter, his grandfather having served in a Virginia Regiment in the Confederate States army during all of the war between the states. John Waddie (1) Carter, son of James Hill Carter, was born in Henry county, Virginia, April 14, 1860 and died in March, 1914. As a youth he attended the public schools, and obtained his academic education through a four years' course in Roanoke College, whence he was graduated in 1882. He then enrolled n the law department of the Universityof Virginia, one of his classmates, Oscar Underwood, Democratic leader of the house of representatives under the administration of President Wilson, and received his Bachelor of Laws in 1884. On June 24, 1886, Mr. Carter began the practice of his profession in Martinsville, Virginia, and in addition to acquiring a private practice, large and lucrative, gained eminence and importance in public life. He served Martinsville as mayor for several years and satisfactorily and ably filled this office. His professional duties and connections, absorbing as they were, did not keep him from the conscientious discharge of his religious responsibilities, and he long served as vestryman of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church and as superintendent of the Sunday school of that congregation. John Waddie Carter was a man of strong and firm convictions, which he lived in his daily course and to which he rigidly adhered under all conditions, the universal respect and constant regard of his fellows testifying the approval and appreciation of his life. He married (first) Mary L. Smeade, of Salem, Virginia, daughter of Colonel A. W. Smeade, who died in 1895; married (second) November 4, 1897, Kizziah Doewry, daughter of Dr. H. M. Doewry, died april 11, 1915. His first wife, Mary L. (Smeade) Carter, was a descendent of Alexander Gordon, of Scotland, who fought under the "Pretender" in 1745. Children of the first marriage of John Waddie Carter: John Waddie (2), of whom further; Louis G.; Marion Wentworth, deceased. Children of his second marriage: Kizzie and Ruth. John Waddie (2) Carter, son of John Waddie (1) and Mary L. (Smeade) Carter, was born at Martinsville, Henry county, Virginia, November 16, 1888. The public schools of the place of his birth and a private tutor were the mediums through which his early education was obtained, and he was afterward a student in the Ruffner Institute and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, entering the last-named institution in 1905 and graduating Bachelor of Science in 1909. In the year of this graduation from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute he entered the University of Virginia, and , pursuing a combined classical and legal course, was graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1913. Gaining admission to the bar of Virginia in the same year, he immediately established in practice in Martinsville, where he remains to this time, in April, 1914, having been appointed commissioner of accounts. He is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to lodge and chapter, his lodge Piedmont, No. 152, Free and Accepted Masons; he also belongs to Danville Lodge, No. 227, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he is a vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, an office previously held by his honored father. The death of the elder Carter, which occurred soon after John Waddie Carter, Jr. established in practice, prevented an aoosication that would have been ideal, and deprived Mr. Carter of a loving parent and of the guidance of one who would have delighted in directing his legal career. John Waddie Carter, Sr., however, transmitted to his son those qualities of determination and ambition that carry with them the aiblity to think, act and stand alone, and Mr. Carter could, at the beginning of his professional career, receive no more valuable heritage. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY, Vol. 5 Virginia Biography