Cater Family Memories
Charcoal Print of Joshua Cater, in the collections of the Sherburne History Center The Cater Family served a prominent role in the settlement and development of Sherburne County. Settling in the area of Haven Township in 1860, Joshua Otis Cater and his descendants contributed significantly to the early history of the county. Lottie Cater Davis, the granddaughter of Joshua Cater, the daughter of Levi Woodbury Cater, provided an oral history to the Sherburne History Center, remembering some of the early settlement: My dad farmed in a big way—he had over 1,000 acres of land. We had an older house in Becker, south of here on Highway 10. I was born in the old house in 1896. When I was four, my dad wasn’t working and he built that great big house. We had that house built in 1900 and moved in there. I can remember when there we ten buildings on that farm, right in the yard. They could buy land for five dollars and acre, but to get ...