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EDUCATION: Carlton entered The University of Georgia in the fall of 1873. At the 1874 graduation ceremonies on August 3, as a sophomore, Brother Carlton gave the speech “Spartacus to The Gladiators,” rendered in an “admirable style, delivered superbly and his closing appeal could not have been surpassed by any orator,” according to The North-East Georgian, Athens, Georgia, Wednesday, August 12, 1874, p. 3.
Member, Demosthenian Society. Member and Treasurer, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta. Probably joined the Fraternity in his first year at The University. Graduate, Bachelor of Arts, The University of Georgia, August 2, 1876. He later was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1881, Doctor of Medicine.
His father was Dr. Joseph Barnett Carlton (UGA 1841, Medical College of Georgia 1844), who served in Georgia House of Representatives from 1852-1856 and the Georgia state Senate from 1856-1858 and who later was a surgeon for the Confederate States Army serving in Colonel Toombs’ Brigade, First Georgia Militia. Like his son, the father was a member of the Demosthenian Society at The University of Georgia.
A brother to James Moore Carlton, Dr. William Alexander Carlton, married Kappa Deuteron’s Henry Clay Bussey’s sister-in-law, Miss Susie Lucas, daughter of Frederick William Lucas and Martha Singleton. Like Brother Carlton, W. A. Carlton was a physician and a graduate of Jefferson Medical College. James M. Carlton’s uncle, Henry Hull Carlton, also attended The University of Georgia and Jefferson Medical College and was later elected to the U.S. Congress representing Athens and surrounding areas.
A sister of Brother Moore, Emma Leila Carlton, married Congressman Charles L. Bartlett, a pallbearer in the funeral of Brother Berner.
CAREER: Brother Carlton was a physician. From “The Transactions of the Medical Association of Georgia, Thirty-fifth Annual Session, 1884,” published by the Medical Association of Georgia, printed by Jas. Harrison & Co. Printers, Atlanta, Georgia, 1884, p. 442:
Twelve months ago at our meeting in Athens, there was present a recently elected member of our Association, full of buoyant hope of years of useful professional life with prospects of living to green old age and attaining the highest honors which could be bestowed upon the devotee of that profession,
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whose daily task it has ever been to minister to the sick and suffering sons of Adam. Within four months after the Association had adjourned, James M. Carlton had become to us only a memory. The silver chord of life had been loosed ...
In his death, the city of Athens has lost an honored and useful citizen, the poor and needy an ever ready friend and benefactor, his friends an accomplished gentleman and genial associate, his family an honored son and devoted brother, this Association a valued member ...
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, August 21, 1883, p. 2:
FUNERAL OF DR. CARLTON.
Athens, August 20 - The funeral service of Dr. James Carlton yesterday afternoon at the First Methodist church was one of the largest that has ever been held in the city. The church was crowded with the isles filled and persons standing.
The gallery was crowded by colored people and the streets outside was thronged with citizens and vehicles ... [His death] has indeed been a sad happening to the poor people of the community, whose every wants requiring medical skill have been relieved by this generous young man without compensation or selfish motives ... It was a sad sight to have seen the colored people, whose best friend he was, crowding around his office and giving vent to their pent up feelings in tears of deep sorrow ...
Member, Demosthenian Society. Member and Treasurer, Kappa Deuteron Chapter, Phi Gamma Delta. Probably joined the Fraternity in his first year at The University. Graduate, Bachelor of Arts, The University of Georgia, August 2, 1876. He later was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1881, Doctor of Medicine.
His father was Dr. Joseph Barnett Carlton (UGA 1841, Medical College of Georgia 1844), who served in Georgia House of Representatives from 1852-1856 and the Georgia state Senate from 1856-1858 and who later was a surgeon for the Confederate States Army serving in Colonel Toombs’ Brigade, First Georgia Militia. Like his son, the father was a member of the Demosthenian Society at The University of Georgia.
A brother to James Moore Carlton, Dr. William Alexander Carlton, married Kappa Deuteron’s Henry Clay Bussey’s sister-in-law, Miss Susie Lucas, daughter of Frederick William Lucas and Martha Singleton. Like Brother Carlton, W. A. Carlton was a physician and a graduate of Jefferson Medical College. James M. Carlton’s uncle, Henry Hull Carlton, also attended The University of Georgia and Jefferson Medical College and was later elected to the U.S. Congress representing Athens and surrounding areas.
A sister of Brother Moore, Emma Leila Carlton, married Congressman Charles L. Bartlett, a pallbearer in the funeral of Brother Berner.
CAREER: Brother Carlton was a physician. From “The Transactions of the Medical Association of Georgia, Thirty-fifth Annual Session, 1884,” published by the Medical Association of Georgia, printed by Jas. Harrison & Co. Printers, Atlanta, Georgia, 1884, p. 442:
Twelve months ago at our meeting in Athens, there was present a recently elected member of our Association, full of buoyant hope of years of useful professional life with prospects of living to green old age and attaining the highest honors which could be bestowed upon the devotee of that profession,
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whose daily task it has ever been to minister to the sick and suffering sons of Adam. Within four months after the Association had adjourned, James M. Carlton had become to us only a memory. The silver chord of life had been loosed ...
In his death, the city of Athens has lost an honored and useful citizen, the poor and needy an ever ready friend and benefactor, his friends an accomplished gentleman and genial associate, his family an honored son and devoted brother, this Association a valued member ...
The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, August 21, 1883, p. 2:
FUNERAL OF DR. CARLTON.
Athens, August 20 - The funeral service of Dr. James Carlton yesterday afternoon at the First Methodist church was one of the largest that has ever been held in the city. The church was crowded with the isles filled and persons standing.
The gallery was crowded by colored people and the streets outside was thronged with citizens and vehicles ... [His death] has indeed been a sad happening to the poor people of the community, whose every wants requiring medical skill have been relieved by this generous young man without compensation or selfish motives ... It was a sad sight to have seen the colored people, whose best friend he was, crowding around his office and giving vent to their pent up feelings in tears of deep sorrow ...
