Walter Tenney Carleton was born in Everett, Massachusetts on 24 December 1867 to Isaac Newton Carleton and Laura Tenney Carleton. He attended public schools in New Britain, Connecticut. He later attended Carleton School in Bradford, Massachusetts (Now part of Haverhill) in 1884. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1891. He Briefly worked for D.C. Heath & Co, a publisher in Boston. He started working for Western Electric in 1892. He married Enriqueta Navarro D'Hamel December 31, 1895. He traveled with his wife to Japan as an agent for Western Electric in October 1897. Their son, Charles Dubois Carleton was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa on 7 January 1899. Walter worked with Kunihiko Iwadare as one of the three founding directors of NEC Corporation in 1899. He represented Western Electric by voting their share of NEC stock. Western Electric held 54% of NEC at the time. He returned to Bradford Massachusetts, June 30, 1900 after completing his duties with NEC. He was to take charge of the Chicago branch of Western Electric. Tragically he had developed Appendicitis. Walter passed away during a difficult operation at Hale hospital on 6 July 1900 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

References

• Mrs. H. D. Carleton (1997), Carleton Family Album.

External links

• Kibataro Oki, Pioneer of Telecommunications Industry (Walter Tenney Carleton reference)
• NEC History, 1899-Early Development (Kunihiko Iwadare reference)
• 325.1KB PDF scan from the Carleton family album
• Japanese Who Worked For Edison in America (Kunihiko Iwadare reference)