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bad smashup, but fortunately he was not injured. After surveying the wreckage it was decided to salvage the engine and install it in the Curtiss biplane. Carter also had trouble in attempting to fly this plane, and as a result decided to leave the company.

Carter's next interest in flying took him to Sanduscky, Ohio, to visit the Benoist Company in early 1917. The firm had moved there from St. Louis, Missouri, the year before, and while there Tom Benoist offered Carter a deal to buy one-half interest in one of their flying boats to start a passenger-carrying and flying school business. After some consideration Carter accepted the offer. The aircraft was a standard side-by-side flying boat with a Roberts 6-cylinder, 100 h.p. engine. About a dozen students were soon enrolled and Benoist employed an experienced pilot to fly the boat until Carter could get some practice on it. There was trouble with the engine overheating and burning out bearings which greatly [[strikethrough]] retarded [[/strikethrough]] hampered the school's progress. They were unable to get the engine troubles corrected, and since it was more important to train paid students than to accumulate flying time, Carter never did learn to fly it. Still plagued with troubles, Carter later had an opportunity to sell his interest in that flying boat and buy a half interest in a newer, later type, but experienced the same troubles with the new one. During this time he had become associated with the Benoist Company as an employee. This continued until Mr. Thomas Benoist's death on June 14, 1917. Following that tragedy the company went out of business, but Carter remained for a time to assist Charles Benoist in settling the affairs of the company.

He then returned to his home in Tiffin, Ohio, where he served thirty years as a member of the Tiffin Fire Department. In 1947 Carter had the urge to do more flying so he purchased a Taylorcraft Coupe which he flew for pleasure for some time. Carter, who had lived alone in retirement, passed away at the Tiffin Mercy Hospital on May 11, 1964, following a stroke and lingering illness. He was survive by two sons and nine grandchildren. His body was cremated and the ashes interred in St. Marys Cemetery in Tiffin beside his wife.

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