In 1862 Mr. Carlton englisted in the regiment of "Lancers" at Detroit, and was Captain of a company, and Colonel Rankin commanded the regiment. The regiment, not being called to the front, was mustered out, and Mr. Carleton returned to the Soo where he was apointed toll received under George W. Brown,on the old State ship canal, succeeding to the superintendency in 1864, which position he resigned at the end of 9 years, at his own solicitation. At one time he was Count Clerk and Register of Deeds, and was also a member of the early boards of Supervisors at different periods. After resigning his position upon the canal he gave his attention to engineering, etablishing corners on the subdivisions and relocating Government corners. In 1875 he was appointed Deputy Collector of Customs under WM. Chandler of Marquette, and remained in office until 1885, when his retirement was a necessary result of the changes of administration by the election of Cleveland to the presidency the preceding year; but he was reappointed to the office in 1889, by the Republican official, C.Y. Osburn, who had been chosen to supplant the Democratic incumbent of the collector's position. In November 1893, the collector and his deputy were again retired, at the instance of Mr. Cleveland, who had again been made the executive head of the nation. In May 1894, Mr. Carleton was appointed City Engineer, having been elected County Surveyor in the fall of the preceding year. He cast his first presidential vote for William Henry Hassison in 1840 and has voted the Republican ticket since.

Mr. Carleton was born in Bath, county of Grafton, New hampshire, November 1, 1819, and his boyhood days were passed on the farm. His father, Edmund Carleton emigrated to the Territory of Michigan in 1830, going by state to Burlington VT, then by steamer on Lake Champlain to Whitehall, from there to New York city, where he embarked for Albany, from which point he proceeded by way of the canal to Buffalo, where the family boarded the steamer William Penn, which in due course of time landed them in Detroit. They were two months in making this journey from Burlington to Detroit, a trip that can now be accomplished in 20 hours. The family proceeded from Detroit to St. Clair county, where the father purchased a tract of unimproved land, which he finally reclaimed with the assistance of his sons and where the children were reared to maturity and taught the sterling principles of honesty, frugality and industry with which the parents were so thoroughly inbued. The father and mother disposed of the old home after their children had left them to establish homes of their own, and they passed their declining years with their daughter Alice, in Troy, Ohio, each attaining a venerable age; the father passed away in 1872 at the age of 90 and the mother, Olive Barron, died two years before at the age of 86. Mr. Carleton's ancestors came to America from Engladn as early as 1639 and settled at Rowley Mass., later removed to Haverhill, same State, where the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, also Edmund by name, was born in 1734. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, in Capt. Nathaniel Marsh's company. Major Gage's regiment, and his death occurred in 1791. The children of Edmund Carleton Jr. and Olive (Barron) Carleton were Maria, who became the wife of Ira Eldridge and ived at Marine City, and is now deceased; Olive who married George Kimball and died at Portland Maine at the age of 72 years; Edmund, who died in St. Clair County, MI in 1867; Mary is the wife of Joseph Cox of Shiawassee county, this State; Guy H. is the immediate subject of this biographical review; Eliza became the wife of Wm. Eldridge and lives at Cresco Iowa; Alice who married Jesse Shilling Sr of Troy Ohio, and died in 1892; Augusta, who became the wife of Wm. Marshalll M.D. of Hillsboro IL and died there in 1873; and Henry, who is a customs broker at Sault Ste. Marie.

October 6, 1846 in St. Clair county, Mr. Carleton was married to Frances Clark Hogue who died at Sault Ste. Marie February 19, 1859, leaving two children; Robert who is now a resident of Neosho MO and County Treasure of Newton County, elected on the Republican ticket nOv. 1894; and Alice who became the wife of Herbert Gallery and died Aug. 19, 1879 and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery near Chicago. The second marriage ofMr. Carleton occurred Dec. 1, 1862 to Christine Kemp, daughter of Joseph Kemp, one of the patriarchal citizens of the "Soo" who came here in 1845. The children of this union are grace Haines; Harriet Bell, wife of C.W. Given of Sault Ste Marie; Ella Joanna wife of F.W. Rundle, M.D.; and Louis Kemp who died April 27, 1883 from injuries received at the age of 10 years.

Mr. Carleton has been identified with the Masonic order ever since 1845, when he became a member of Evergreen Lodge at St. Clair MI, and later a charter member of Bethel Lodge No. 358 of Sault Ste. Marie. He has long been a zealous member of the presbyterian Church in which he has been an Elder since 1858.

Of lineage which has ever been represented by men of honor and integrity,the subject of this review has well sustained the standard of the honored name; by his own name he has attained to a measure of success in temporal affairs; and in his later years hem ay well take pleasure in reviewing a career which has been true to its subject. No man can compel success; but he can do more; he can deserve it and this Mr. Carleton certainly has done. Today he is honored by men, and in the community where he has labored so long and so faithfully his friends are in number as his acquaintances. Since the above sketch was prepared Mr. Carleton died, very suddenly, May 1, 1895, at 3:30 a.m. of heart failure.

From "Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula" 1885 Pg. 77