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Show NEW OKLAHOMA CONGRESSMAN That ho is soven-slxteonths Chickasaw and T. ' ; '.' '.-.'.V. " Cherokee Indian and nlno-slxtoonths Scotch-Irish ''V' v'rVjyJjV.' is tho. boast of Charles D. Cartor, now member ; '.'''uHBL.'-.'' from tho fourth Oklahoma district. His patornal .'..'rK-V; ancestor, Nathan Carter Sr., was capturod when '.-V'.T LLLfe' a small boy by Shawnee Indians at tho Lackawan- ,'"' B- na valloy massacro, when all of tho other members .' ' ''MkJRLLLB' ot tho family except ono ot Nathan's sisters wero .' 'I ftF- killed. Nathan Cartor was afterward traded to tho '.',,'! I .H M.' Cherokees, one of whose full-blooded squaws ho .''.''A BLiLibF-" married. Mr. Cartor's father, a captain in the confederate army, addod to this strain of Indian .'.'. I ' ,- lilood by marrying n ono-fourth breod Chickasaw ''.'' '.9& -si-' woman, a sister of Gov. Guy, chief of tho Chlcka- '.Jr. Xr aws. . , -VjJO Tho now representative was born in a Httlo V-S log cabin near Itoggy depot, nn old fort of tho Choctaw nation, 38 years ago. When seven years old he waa taken by his parents to Mill Creok, a stage stand and postofflce on the western frontier of the Chickasaw nation. When 11 ho started to school at a log school houso nearby, When 13 ho entered the Chickasaw Manunl Labor Academy, whero he finished when 18. Two ot these five years at tho academy ho missed In order to work as a cowboy on hta father's ranch. Aa a cow-puncher and broncho-buBter bo began life for himself at "Diamond "Dia-mond Z" ranch, whoro the city of Sulphur now stands. Ho was then 18, When 20 ho accepted a position in a store where he advanced from clerk to boob keapor, cotton buyor and cotton weigher. When 23 he was appointed audltot ot public accounts for tho Chickasaw Nation, and three years later became a momber ot that nation's council. From this position he advanced to suporln-tonilent suporln-tonilent of bcIiooIb and mining truateo of Indian territory. At the time of hi aleatlon to tho new congress ho was in the insuranco business. |