Notes for: John Hampden Charter

Newspaper article, reprinted in "Weekly Register," Point Pleasant, WV, Sep 12 1867, in its entirety:
DESPERATE ASSAULT
We learn that while two young men named Holmes and Charter, of West Union, Doddridge County, were engaged in a personal altercation, on the 29th ult., Holmes stabbed Charter severely on one side of the neck and then cut a terrible gash in the othe side. Mr. Charter was the second son of Dr. Charter of that place, and Mr. Holmes was a brother of the Recorder. A hearing was had before C. C. Davis, Esq., of that place, who committed him to jail. He has since been released on bail. -- Clarksburg Conservative.

John H. Charter was enumerated twice in the 1880 Census.
The census of Belpre, Washington Co, Ohio, enumerated on Jun 9 1880, lists as a boarder John Charter, 31, b. Va (father b. NY [sic], mother b. Mass [sic]), teacher, widowed, in the household of Albert Downee (Downer ?), 55, a boot and shoe maker.
The census of Athens, Athens Co, Ohio, enumerated on Jun 21 1880, lists John H. Charter, 30, b. Va (both parents b. Va [sic]), teacher, widowed, in the household of W. H. Scott, occupation "President of O.U." Other members of the household were Scott's wife Sallie, their six children, and a servant.
(Note: William Henry Scott (1840-1937) served as president of Ohio University from 1872 to 1883, when he resigned to take the presidency at Ohio State University. The 1880 Census found John Charter's two children, now motherless, in the household of their maternal grandparents in Athens.)