Richard B. Carter

Richard Burrage Carter was born on April 8, 1877, in West Newton, Massachusetts, the son of John W. Carter, the head of Carter's Ink, and Helen (Burrage) Carter, his wife. He attended Harvard, where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received an A.B. in 1898 and an M.A. in 1899.^[2]

Richard B. Carter was still in college when his father died and was not ready to take the reins of Carter's Ink.^[3] He finished his education at Harvard and went to work for the company in 1900 and became its president in 1903 and remained so the rest of his life.^[4]