When Zimri Carter returned from his trading ventures he joined his father in farming their new homestead.
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The county was officially organized on March 10, 1859, and is named after Zimri A. Carter, a pioneer settler who came to Missouri from South Carolina in 1812 (see following section).
He served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1998 to 2010, representing District 14, which included Carter, Garvin, Love and Murray counties.
It was originally described from Bat Cave, Carter County, Kentucky and New Hampshire, and a year later found under rotten logs in a deep gorge at Ithaca, New York.
Carter was born in Elizabethton, Tennessee, the eldest son of Alfred Moore Carter, a direct descendant of the early settlers for whom Carter County is named.
In addition to Boyd County, troopers from Post 14 serve Carter, Greenup and Lawrence Counties.
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Taylor was born in the Happy Valley community of Carter County, Tennessee, the second son of Nathaniel Green Taylor, a congressman, Methodist minister, and poet, and Emaline Haynes Taylor, an accomplished pianist.
He was in private practice in Grayson, Kentucky from 1960 to 1981, serving as a city attorney for Grayson from 1962 to 1966, and was a county attorney of Carter County, Kentucky from 1966 to 1970.