married Emily Branson 1861 Fulton Co

Dilworth Carter, merchant. Mr. Carter ranks among the leading merchants of Fulton county. He was born in Delaware Co., Pa., in 1836, and is the eldest of a family of 21 children. By occupation his father, Amos Carter, was a farmer in Penn., where he married Miss Ann Mershon. Among the rugged hills of the Keystone State Dilworth Carter passed the morning of life, and became apprenticed to learn the trades of the stone and brick-mason, and became an adept at these callings. In 1857 he concluded he would try a new field of labor and selected Vermont, this county, as the place. There he became employed as a clerk by Joab Mershon, the prominent banker and merchant of that place. He soon returned to his trade, and in 1859 located at Beardstown and erected the well-known Park House, an extensive grain warehouse and other buildings. He then proceeded to Mason Co. and began his mercantile career, although this particular venture proved unsuccessful. He then went to Bluff City, Schuyler Co., and erected a storehouse and opened a stock of goods, and met with unusual success in handling cooper's stock. During the autumn of 1865 he came to Astoria and formed a partnership with J. C. Lutz in the hardware trade, and the following year purchased his interest. Since then he has succeeded well as a business man. In 1876 he added to the attractiveness of Astoria by the erection of a fine store building and public hall. This is a model building and contains two of the finest store-rooms in Central Illinois. In one department he has a large stock of dry goods, and a fine line of hardware in the other. In 1869 he built his fine residence. In 1861, Oct. 31, he was united in marriage with Miss E. Branson of Pleasant township, this county. Five children have been born to them, three of whom are living,— Nany D., Estella and Irving.
History of Fulton County, C. C. Chapman, 1879