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06/21/2011 12:00 AMPeyton Franklin Carter II, 84, a long time resident of New York City, New York, Bay Head, New Jersey, and Madison and Stonington, died on June 18 at the Lutheran Home in Clinton, New York, following a brief stay at St. Luke’s Hospital in Utica, New York. He was the husband of Elizabeth Ann (Scott) Carter. Mr. Carter was born on July 15, 1926 in Newport News, Virginia. His father, the late Benjamin Franklin Carter, was director of Ship Sales for the U.S. Maritime Administration. His mother, the late Frances Gretchen Upshur, counted among her illustrious ancestors U.S. Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur.
Mr. Carter attended elementary school at St. Vincent de Paul in Newport News, Virginia, and St. Matthew’s Parochial School in Washington, D.C. He went on to attend St. John’s College High School in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California, after his father was transferred there by the U.S. Maritime Commission. In 1944, Mr. Carter enlisted in the U.S. Navy, from which he was honorably discharged two years later with the rank of petty officer third class (yeoman).
In 1950, Mr. Carter graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor of science degree in commerce. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Mr. Carter held several jobs after graduation, including working for former U.S. Senator Gerald P. Nye at the Records Engineering Company before joining the Guaranty Trust Company in 1956, which merged with J.P. Morgan in 1958, and where he would remain for 32 years. He was the vice president in charge of running the firm’s Madison Avenue Office in New York. He also completed the Advanced Management Program from Emory University’s School of Business Administration and was featured in The World’s Who’s Who in Finance and Industry. In addition, Mr. Carter served as a trustee for the Institute of International Education.
On Dec. 7, 1968, Mr. Carter married Elizabeth Ann Scott of Brookline, Massachusetts, at St. Thomas More Church on East 89th Street in New York City. They had one son, Peyton Franklin Carter III, who currently resides in Scarsdale, New York.
The Carters made their primary residence on East 77th Street in Manhattan, while spending summers at their home in Bay Head, New Jersey. After Mr. Carter retired in 1988, he and his wife resided in Madison and Stonington, Connecticut, and in Needham, Massachusetts, before moving in 2010 to Clare Bridge of Clinton, in Clinton, New York, near their son’s summer residence in Richfield Springs, New York.
Known as the consummate “Southern Gentleman,” Mr. Carter was a member throughout the years of the Holland Lodge in New York, the Union Club in New York, the Bay Head Yacht Club in Bay Head, New Jersey, the Madison Beach Club in Madison, and the Wadawanuck Club in Stonington. He will be sorely missed by friends and family alike.
Besides his wife and son, he is survived by two grandsons, Parker Upshur Carter and Peyton Franklin Carter IV; his brother-in-law, Bill Scott of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; his nephew, Scott Peyton Carter of Williamsburg, Virginia; and three nieces, Colleen Ortega of Wellington, Florida, Jacqueline Toombs of Pembrook Pines, Florida, and Lisa Boozer-Assayag of Pembrook Pines, Florida. He was predeceased in 1995 by his only brother, Barton French Carter, who was an associate at Batten, Barton, Durstin, & Osborne.
A funeral mass will be held at St. Lawrence’s Church in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, June 22. Burial will take place in Holyhood Cemetery in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. A memorial service will be held at St. Thomas Moore Church in New York City on June 28 at 10 a.m.