Mr. J. C. Carter, Well Known Photographer at Nanking where he built a large Hospital. His work soon brought him into prominence in the city and surrounding country, and his name was known in thousands of villages from which poor sufferers came to him for treatment. In the foreign community, among the officials and gentry, as well as by the poor he was loved as a true type of the good physician. Thirty years ago Viceroy Lin Kun-yi recommended him for a high decoration which was conferred upon him by the Emperor, and this was only one of many marks of confidence [shown in him at Nanking. He was one of the promoters of the foreign school, Hillerest, He served for Several years as Dean of the Medical School of Nanking University, In 1915 he removed to Shanghai and became the Secretary of the Medical Missionary Associa continuing in this position for Seven years until ill health obliged him to resign. In recent years several poems by him have appeared in magazines, Dr, Beebe was a man of rare ability and of perfect devotion to his work of loving service in the name of his Master, Before coming to China he was offered a lucrative position with Parke, Davis & Ca. in their laboratories, Another old resident of Shanghat left for good on Wednesday after 27 years in China. Mr, J. C, Carter was for many years connected with Messrs, Mactavish & Lehmann, chemists and druggists, as manager, and but Intterly Joined Messrs, A. S. Watson & Ca, in the temporary aience of one of their staff.
Mr. Carter will be remembered in as one of its cleverest His scenes of na-ye life and genre studies have do great deal to familiarize home lands with the every day life of the Chinere—monk, merchant and begear—but perhaps his most succomsful studies have been of native children at work and play. For many years he lost no opportunity of exploring the creeks and country the 'y_ of Shanghai, at perpetuating in lantern lid stereoscopic pictures and prints. a peculiarly soft quality the common tagks of the people and their surroundings. Many of his pictures have appeared in this newspaper, in "Overseas" and other journal Mr. Carter will join his wife at home, who preceded him about 2 year ago and is now living in a Gloucestershire village. Our good hes and those of his many friends accompany him. but he preferred to spend his life as a missionary. In his chosen work he gave all his time to the relief of distress and to the bringing of light into homes darkened with disease.
He is survived by a widow who is the sister of the Rev. E. C.
Lobenstine, and by two daughters, tone of whom is Mrs. F. S. Niles of the Presbyterian Mission, Huai-yuan, Anhui province.
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