Solon A Carter (1837 - 1918)
Born Leominster (MA)
State Treasurer 1872 - 1874,1875 - 1913
Portrait by Marceau, c. 1913.
Presented to the State, date unknown.

Carter attended public school in Leominster, then headed north to Keene (NH) as Superintendent of the Gas Light Company. He was at Keene 1859 - 1862, when he went into the army as Captain of Company G, 14th New Hampshire Volunteers. Carter was commissioned Adjutant General of Volunteers, and served on the staff of Brigadier General Edward W. Hicks, and then on the staff of Brig. Gen. Charles J. Paine. He commanded "a division of colored troops, Army of the Potomac. Later ... he was brevetted Major and Lieutenant Colonel." American Series of Popular Biographies", New Hampshire Edition (Boston, 1902), p. 188.]

Carter returned to Keene after the war, to clerk in a furniture store. In 1872 he was elected Treasurer of New Hampshire, and he held that post for thirty years, excepting 1874. Carter was a thirty-second degree Mason and Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of the Knights Templar in New Hampshire (1875). He served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, in Manchester, 1878 - 1879.

References: George H. Moses, ed., New Hampshire Men (1893); S.G. Griffin, A History of the Town of Keene (1904).