Number 2613 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 310, 499.
BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 29 and 31
He was a farmer. For more than 20 years he held office of deputy sheriff and
was frequently elected constable by the town. He was a justice of the peace
and postmaster, and was representative to the legislature of the state of
VT. He was well posted in politics, a fluent debator among his neighbors
and stronger in arguements than the ordinary run of men. Although trustworthy,
and shrewd in business, he accumulated but little property. He was a
particularly fine looking man, easy in his manners, social in his habits and a
favorite amoung his acquaintances.
He married Esther Ann Luce, a daughter of a minister of some renown, and a
woman of more than ordinary personal attraction and mental accomplishments.
Number 4834 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 506.
BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 31
9922. Esther Johnson Carpenter
Number 4835 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 506.
BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 31
Number 2615 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 310, See correction on page 843.
No family listed.
BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 29.
Children order not known.
Number 2617 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 310, 843.
BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 29
Children order not known.
He was a blacksmith.CENSUS: 1880 United States Census
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Curtis CARPENTER Self M Male W 68 VT Blacksmith CT MA
Ruth H. CARPENTER Wife M Female W 53 VT Keeping House CT VT
Frank K. CARPENTER Son S Male W 21 VT Telegraph Operator VT VT
Anna A. CARPENTER Dau S Female W 18 VT At Home VT VT
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Source Information:
Census Place Montpelier, Washington, Vermont
Family History Library Film 1255348
NA Film Number T9-1348
Page Number 149C
Number 2618 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 310, 843.
BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 29
Children order not known.
He moved to IA.CENSUS: In 1880 US Census with his son Loran.
Probably descendant of the Mayo Family of Barnstable county, MA.
Number 2619 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 310, 843.
BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 29.
Children order not known. He was a blacksmith.
CENSUS: 1880 US Census - Living with her son Henry in Waterbury.
CENSUS: 1880 United States Census
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Henry H. CARPENTER Self Male W 31 VT Blacksmith VT VT
Caroline M. CARPENTER Mother W Female W 59 VT Keeping House MA MA
Jenny M. CARPENTER Sister S Female W 20 VT At Home VT VT
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Source Information:
Census Place Waterbury, Washington, Vermont
Family History Library Film 1255349
NA Film Number T9-1349
Page Number 267A
CENSUS: 1880 US Census - Living with her brother Henry in Waterbury.
4705. Dr. Henry "Harvey" Carpenter
The Dartmouth College Library bought the Papers of Judge Frederick Vose from
Charles Apfelbaum, Rare Books and Collections, Valley Stream, New York, in
1987. A fine selection of records from early (1825-ca. 1855) Cheshire County,
New Hampshire courts, this collection will provide researchers with a rare
glimpse of the legal and economic problems faced by New Hampshire residents
during the mid-1800s. Although the majority of the suits were brought for
non-payment of debts, there are also cases concerning theft, assault and battery,
breach of promise, divorce, arson, and the settlement of estates.http://diglib.dartmouth.edu/library/ead/html/ml67.html
The Papers of Judge Frederick Vose at Dartmouth College
FOLDER : 10.
Shapley, Thomas, vs. Harvey Carpenter; summons
FOLDER : 84.
Torrey, Levi and Polly, vs. Harvey Carpenter; account, deposition, plea of the case, summons
FOLDER : 6.
Carpenter, Harvey; account of suits filed against Carpenter.http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0012639
Carpenter, Henry, Dr.
Released 20 June 2003
Chesterfield, Cheshire County, New Hampshire HistoryDr. Henry Carpenter was born in Alstead, N. H., December 24, 1803. His father, Eber Carpenter, was a practicing physician in Alstead from 1802 until his death, May 23, 1841. Henry, the eldest of his eight sons, distinguished himself in the profession of medicine and surgery. He graduated medicine at Castleton, Vt., in 1825, and soon after settled in Chesterfield where he soon gave evidence of superior skill, and with a growing reputation as such, continued the practice of his profession until his death, August 1852. Decisive in all things, ignoring creeds, he spent his life in ministering to the wants of his fellow men, believing that acts, and not creeds or belief constituted true religion. He was a man of large sympathies. He married Lydia H. Chandler, of Colerain, Mass., in 1829, and had born to him two daughters, Helen and Lucretia. His wife died in 1837. Only one of daughters, Lucretia A., is living, and resides in Montrose, Pa., highly esteeme and noted for her Christian virtues. Dr. Carpenter served as representative in the legislature of the state with commendable ability, and in all things in trusted to his care was a man of accredited worth. A son by a later marriage, Charles Henry, served in the late Rebellion, and distinguished himself by meritorious acts and duties during the war, dying in Mississippi soon after the close of the same, while yet in the service of the United States. Dr. Carpenter was a man of commanding appearance, a true representative of liberal republican principles, and a strict adherent of justice and right.
Source: Chesterfield, Cheshire County, New Hampshire History
CENSUS: 1850 US Census - See image: RIN 51453 Henry Harvey Carpenter 1850.jpg
United States Census, 1850
Name: Harvey Carpenter
Residence: Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire
Age: 45 years
Calculated Birth Year: 1805
Birthplace: New Hampshire
Gender: Male
Race (original):
Race (expanded):
Death Month:
Death Year:
Film Number: 14940
Digital GS Number: 4195949
Image Number: 00275
Line Number: 12
Dwelling House Number: 52
Family Number: 57
Marital Status:
Free or Slave:
Household Gender Age
Harvey Carpenter M 45y
Lucretia Carpenter F 15y
Charles Carpenter M 5y
Mary A Scott F 14y
Maria Cobleigh F 30y
She had a sister Mary A. Scott who was residing with Harvey Carpenter in the 1850 US Census.
9936. Charles Harvey Carpenter
DEATH: Died in Mississippi due to wounds received in the Civil War.
The Civil War was over in August 1865.BIRTH: August 26 & 27th given. - See image: RIN 51545 Charles Carpenter BIRTH.jpg
New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900
Name: Charles H Carpenter
Date of Birth: 26 Aug 1845
Place of Birth: Chesterfield,Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
Father's Name: Harvey Carpenter
Mother's Name: Shiren
Place Recorded: Chesterfield,Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
GS Film Number: 1000490
Digital GS Number: 4243724
Image Number:
SEE ALSO: - See image: RIN 51545 Charles Carpenter BIRTHb.jpg
New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900
Name: Charles H Carpenter
Date of Birth: 26 Aug 1845
Place of Birth: Chesterfield,Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
Father's Name: Harvey Carpenter
Mother's Name: Thirza
Place Recorded: Chesterfield,Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
GS Film Number: 1000490
Digital GS Number: 4243724
Image Number: 02964
AND ...
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: 7540020
System Origin: New_Hampshire-ODM
Source Film Number: unknown
Reference Number:
CENSUS: 1880 United States Census
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
O. L. CARPENTER Self W Male W 34 VT Farmer NH VT
Howard C. CARPENTER Son S Male W 10 IL At Home --- ---
Ella Almira CARPENTER Dau S Female W 5 MN At Home --- ---
A. H. CARPENTER Other W Male W 76 NH Farmer --- ---
Susan SMITH Other W Female W 65 VT Boarder --- ---
Artemus CORNER Other S Male W 25 IL Farm Laborer VT VT
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Source Information:
Census Place Beaver, Guthrie, Iowa
Family History Library Film 1254342
NA Film Number T9-0342
Page Number 132BThe Dartmouth College Library bought the Papers of Judge Frederick Vose from
Charles Apfelbaum, Rare Books and Collections, Valley Stream, New York, in
1987. A fine selection of records from early (1825-ca. 1855) Cheshire County,
New Hampshire courts, this collection will provide researchers with a rare
glimpse of the legal and economic problems faced by New Hampshire residents
during the mid-1800s. Although the majority of the suits were brought for
non-payment of debts, there are also cases concerning theft, assault and battery,
breach of promise, divorce, arson, and the settlement of estates.http://diglib.dartmouth.edu/library/ead/html/ml67.html
The Papers of Judge Frederick Vose at Dartmouth College
FOLDER : 80. Carpenter, Ebenezer, vs. Asa H. Carpenter; letter, subpoena, testimony
DEATH: Died in Mississippi due to wounds received in the Civil War.
4710. Dr. Algernon Sidney Carpenter
DR. ALGERNON SIDNEY CARPENTER, PHYSICIAN AT KEENE, ,NH
Introduction:
Our source for the following biography of Dr. Algernon Sidney
Carpenter is the 1886 History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties,
,NH, edited by D. Hamilton Hurd and published by
J. W. Lewis & , Philadelphia, Pa. Following it are additional
notes by your editor on this branch of the Carpenter family,
plus a page of old illustrations showing Keene, ,NH as it
appeared when Dr. Carpenter lived there.
ALGERNON SIDNEY CARPENTER, M.D.
Algernon Sidney Carpenter, M.D., after a long professional life, most of which
was passed in Keene, died March 4, 1885. He was son of Dr. E. and Judith
(Greene) Carpenter, and was born in Alstead, N.H., October 16, 1814.
He was descended from a somewhat noted medical family, his father having been
an able and successful physician; several uncles and other relatives were
celebrated for their professional skill.
After an academic course, he read medicine with his father and then entered the
medical college at Middlebury, ,VT, graduating about 1837. He practiced his
profession a short time in Gardner and Northfield, ,MA, and then settled in
Keene.
MARRIAGE: In 1859, November 30th, he married Jane F., daughter of the
Hon. Henry and Calista (Pond) Coolidge. They had two daughters, Mary
Algerniene and Caroline Sidney.
Apart from his professional duties, Dr. Carpenter felt a deep interest in all
that pertained to the welfare of Keene, and was a prominent factor in social
circles. He possessed rare conversational powers, expressing his thoughts with
well-balanced and discerning intellect and ready wit. Few surpassed him in
repartee and his satire was keen and cutting.
He took a great interest in, and gave much of his
time to, Free-Masonry. In 1855, the Social
Friends Lodge of that order having been for some
time dormant, he caused its revival and at that
time was the only Free Mason on in town who knew the
work. He was Master of the Lodge in 1856, 1857
and 1859. He was a charter member and first Mast-
er of the Lodge of the Temple. He was a member of
Cheshire Royal Arch Chapter, St. John's Council
of Royal and Select Masters, and of Hugh de Pay-
ens Commandery of Knights Templar.
In politics Dr. Carpenter was a constitutional democrat; he held to the
doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, and wished to preserve the integrity of those
principles which he considered the guiding - 15 -
stars of the republic., and believed in and earnestly advocated the success of
the Democratic party as the only way to consummate the perpetuity of our
national existence.
But it is not as a citizen or politician that Dr. Carpenter demands our chief
attention, but as the kind-hearted, successful physician. In his profession he
occupied a foremost rank. He was a scholarly man, of quick perceptions, who
made the case of his patients his own, and his success was due to his firmness,
self-reliance, excellent Judgment and discretion. He gained the confidence,
esteem and regard of his patients, and they believed in him thoroughly and
completely-. Continued on next page.
DR. ALGERNON SIDNEY CARPENTER
OF KEENE, ,NH
(Continued)
In those grave and desperate cases where life and death were struggling for the
mastery, he was watchful and vigilant, skillful to meet any emergency or
change, with the best remedial agencies. Although habitually cautious, he did
not shrink from the responsibilities of his calling, and used the most heroic
treatment if he deemed the case demanded it. Quackery, in all its forms, he
most heartily despised.
Like most men of positive nature, strong will and generous impulses, he made
many devoted friends and some bitter enemies. He was, for years, a landmark in
this city, kind and charitable to the poor, genial and pleasant in his home and
society, courteous in his intercourse with his medical brethren, and in many
ways was one of the strong representative professional men of Cheshire County.
The Doctor's Pedigree
ANCESTRY OF ALGERNON S. CARPENTER
Algernon's father, Eber Carpenter (1778-1841), wed Judith Greene (1780-1841) of
Atkinson, NH, Feb. 22, 1803. Eber was for many years a doctor at Alstead, NH.
Their other children were Harvey, Asa, Eber, James, Alpheus, Pamelia, George
and Charles Carpenter. Four sons were doctors.
Eber's father, James Carpenter (1741-1813), was born in Coventry, CT & settled
at Sharon, VT. He wed in 1761 Irene Ladd (1744-1817). A Revolutionary War
soldier, he later served in the ,VT Legislature and was a grantee of the
town of Chittenden, VT. His 17 children include James, Jason, Eunice, Alpheus,
Achsah, Alanson Lucy, Pamelia, Harvey, Caroline, Stephen & Henry Carpenter.
James was a son of Ebenezer Carpenter (1709-1777) & Eunice Thompson
(1722-1777), wed in 1739; both died of spotted fever and were buried in one
grave at Hartford, VT. Children named in his will are Asa, James, William,
Bridget, Josiah , Catherine, Eunice, Phebe, Ebenezer, Amos & Betsey.
Ebenezer Carpenter was a son of Benjamin Carpenter (1663-1738) of Rehoboth,
,MA & Hannah Strong. A farmer, he moved to Northampton, ,MA, then Coventry,
CT. Other children: Prudence, Freedom, Amos, Jedediah, Hannah, Eliphalet, Noah,
Elizabeth, Rebecca & Benjamin Carpenter. Benjamin was son of William Carpenter
& grandson of the immigrant, William Carpenter of Rehoboth.
EDITOR'S NOTES
There are several references to Dr. Algernon S. Carpenter in S. G. Griffin's
1904 History of the Town of Keene, published by Sentinel Printing Company of
Keene. Most of them concern his activities-in organizing and heading various
Masonic endeavors. A brief biographical sketch summarizes the data given in the
longer biography above. Griffin, however, gives* Algernon's marriage to Jane
Coolidge as taking place in 1850, which seems the most likely date. Says
Griffin: "In his profession he was skillful, kind, considerate and successful;
in his home and society he was genial, courteous and large-hearted. He was a
man of strong will and positive nature, hating sham and hypocrisy." According
to this source, Dr. Carpenter was a leading physician of Keene for 48 years.
His office was in the Briggs building below the old Unitarian Church. Most of
those years there were at least two other well-established doctors in Keene.
Griffin also has additional data on the family of Dr. Carpenter's wife, Jane.
Henry Coolidge, her father, came from ,MA to Keene as a young man to
clerk in Abijah Foster's store. He married Calista, daughter of Abiathar Pond
of Keene. Henry and a brother-in-law bought out Foster in 1809 and changed the
firm's name to Pond & Cool idge. Henry later was the last landlord of the old
Ralston tavern, became a land surveyor, served as a magistrate and, in 1837,
was a state senator. At the time of his death in 1843 at age 56 he had been for
many years clerk of the court. - 16 -
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Carpenter, Algernon Sidney, Dr.
Released 10 December 2003
Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire HistoryDr. Algernon Sidney Carpenter, son of Dr. Eber and Judith (Greene) Carpenter, was born in Alstead, N. H., October 16, 1814, and was descended from a family pre-eminently distinguished by the large number of skillful physicians it produced. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and at Middlebury Medical college, from which he received the degree of M. D., in June, 1837. While acquiring his education he taught school in various places, and was, for a short time, in a store at Chesterfield. With the exception of a few years spent in Gardner and Northfield, Mass., his entire professional life of forty-eight years was passed in Keene. He stood in the front rank in his profession. and enjoyed a success which was unsurpassed by any practitioner in this part of New Hampshire. He was an honor to a profession which he reverently believed reflected high honors upon its members; and during his long, intelligent and conscientious practice, he gained, in an eminent degree, the respect and confidence of those who were the recipients of his indefatigable, ministrations. He was peculiarly sensitive to any violation of the conventional rules of medical etiquette, and was severe in his condemnation of charlatanism. He felt a deep interest in all that pertained to the welfare of Keene, and was prominent in its social life. He was a conspicuous member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons, and held official rank in many Masonic societies; but at the time of his death, which occurred March 4, 1885, was not in affiliation with them. He was a studious and thoughtful man, well known for the strength and positiveness of his views upon all subjects, especially religion and politics. In theology he was a rationalist, but not of the econoclastic school. His religious convictions were the result of reason and scientific research. He had a deep reverence for truth and sincerity, but was equally abhorrent of what he conceived to be error and hypocrisy. He was unusually familiar with Bible literature, and had memorized many favorite scripture passages. Like all liberal thinkers, he emphasized the spirit more than the letter. In politics he was an ardent Democrat of the old school; believing in the States rights doctrine, and what he regarded the "strict construction of the constitution." His active brain made him fond of literature. He was a fluent speaker and a clear and terse writer.
November 30, 1859, Dr. Carpenter was married in the Unitarian church at Keene, to Miss Jennie F. Coolidge, daughter of Hon. Henry and Calista (Pond) Coolidge, of Keene. They had two daughters, Miss Mary and Miss Carrie, who, with their mother, survive him.
Source: Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire History
http://www.ci.keene.nh.us/library/vitalstatistics/births1ad.htm#C
Town of Keene, New Hampshire Vital Statistics 1753 - 1878 - Births
Carpenter, Algernon Sidney and Jane F. Coolidge. Children: Mary Algernine, b. Oct. 8, 1860; Caroline Sidney, b. Feb. 18, 1865.