_John Carter ________________
_Charles Carter ________________|_Mourning Bond ______________
_James Watkins Carter ___|
| | _William James Veazey _______
| |_Feriba Thurin Veazey __________|_Hannah Simmons _____________
_William Henry Carter ____|
| | _John Jameson _______________
| | _William John Ratcliff Jameson _|_Winniford C. Ratcliff ______
| |_Mary Elizabeth Jameson _|
| | _John W. Watkins ____________
| |_Musadora Antonette Watkins ____|_Elizabeth (Betsy) Atkinson _
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|--William Henry Carter
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| _Manuel Alves ___________|
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| | |________________________________|_____________________________
|_Annette Elizabeth Alves _|
| _____________________________
| _Francisco Nevas _______________|_____________________________
|_Isabella Louise Nevas __|
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|_Isabella ? ____________________|_____________________________
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He earned money taking photographs. He also worked at the Carter Music Company. After high school he started work on an EE degree at the University of Texas, but had to drop out after his first year when his Father died. He worked again at the Carter Music store to support himself and his family. He married at about the same time his Father died. Shortly after the beginning of the 1929 depression he opened a radio repair shop with his wife as bookeeper. He began working for Schlumberger oil Company, building well logging equipment and became the chief engineer in Houston. He was Chairman of the local IRE Section. During World War II he worked at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, MD for a year (1941-42) on the proximity fuse as an Assistant Physicist. After the War he returned to Houston and worked at Halliburton and Schlumberger oil Companies on seismographs for oil prospecting. When the Carter Music Company ran into financial trouble he became general manager of the store and built on a radio studio with his own hands there. He sold out to his siblings and began his own business, The Electro-Mechanical Development Company in the 1950's and ran it until he became ill with emphysema in the late 1950's.
He was very ill for the last five years of his life and semi-invalid. His main occupation during these years was his amateur radio work for the Airforce MARS military net, which provided free calls home for servicemen overseas. He died Christmas morning in 1962, after an unsuccessful hospital drug treatment for his lung congestion. He was well liked by his friends and family. He was well known for his work as an Engineer in the local area. He is listed in American Men in Science through the 1950s.
2 Oct 1907 Born
Sep1917-Jun1923 Grade school in St. Louis and Houston
Sep1923-Jun1927 High school in Houston, TX
Sep1927-29 University of Texas and University of Houston
1928-Jul1929 Texas Photo Supply Co., Technician
Jul1929-Dec1931 Carter Music Co., Managed the Radio & Radio Service Department
Dec1931-Nov1939 Riverside Radio Service, Owner
Nov1939-Jun1942 Research Engineer for Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co., Research Engineer
Jul1942-Oct1943 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Associate Physicist
Nov1943-Sep1946 Electro-Mechanical Research Inc., Research Engineer
Oct1945-Jul1948 Schlumberger Well Logging Co., Chief Engineer Research Department
Jul1948-Feb1951 Carter Music Co., Vice President & General Manager
Feb1951-May1952 Electro-Technical Laboratories, Technical Director & Director of Research
May1952-1960 Owner of Electro-Mechanical Development Co.
1960 Retired
1963 Died
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