16495.
Robert Peter Carpenter
16496.
Charles Thomas Carpenter
After graduation he went to Oswego, ,KS, thence to Coffeyville, Montgomery , KS in 1886.
All of his children and his spouse were alive in 1912.
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Transcribed from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history,
embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns,
prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal
history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. :
front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed
December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansas State
Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3.
Charles T. Carpenter, of Coffeyville, Kan., is the son of Samuel and Sarah (Montgomery)
Carpenter, the former of whom was a native of Bedford county, Tennessee, born in
1827, and the latter was born in Charleston, S. C., a daughter of Thomas
Montgomery, who was a large slave owner and well-to-do planter. He left Charleston
when a young man and located at Palmetto, Tenn. The Montgomerys were of
Scotch-Irish extraction and came to America in the Eighteenth century. The first
American immigrant of the Carpenter family came to American from London, England,
in 1630, and located at Rehoboth, in Bristol county, Massachusetts. His name
was William Carpenter, and upon his migration to America he was accompanied by
his three sons, from whom over 2,000 of the family name now in America have
descended. Samuel Carpenter, the father of Charles T., came to Kansas in 1874
and located at Oswego, where he engaged in the mercantile business and resided
until his death, which occurred in 1903, the last fifteen years of his life
being spent in retirement. His father, Peter Carpenter, was a native of North
Carolina and by occupation was a farmer. He was a Union man in sentiment and was
compelled to leave the South on account of his political views. He went to
Iowa, in which state he died some time during the Civil war. Of the union of
Samuel and Sarah (Montgomery) Carpenter there were born six children—three sons
and three daughters—and they are all living at this writing, Charles T. being
the third child and second son in the order of birth. Charles T. Carpenter was
born at Palmetto, Bedford county, Tennessee, Dec. 9, 1858. He received his
education in the schools of his native town, in the old academy at Palmetto, and
at Indiana University, where he graduated in 1876. He then came to Oswego,
Kan., and was with his father in the mercantile business for six years, at the end
of which period he engaged in the banking business at Oswego. He began his
career in this endeavor as a bookkeeper, but later became cashier of the C. M.
London Bank, in which position he remained until 1886, when he removed to
Coffeyville and became one of the organizers of the London National Bank, of which
he was elected vice-president, a position he has held up to the present time.
At the beginning this institution was organized as a private bank, but it
later became a state bank, and in 1903 was reorganized under the national banking
laws. There has been no change in the personnel of the officers, however, as
at the time of the original organization C. M. Condon was elected president,
Mr. Carpenter vice-president, and Charles M. Ball cashier, and they have
continued incumbents of the respective positions. The bank has a capital stock of
$100,000, with a surplus of $50,000. This bank and the First National Bank of
Coffeyville the Dalton bandits undertook to rob on Oct. 5, 1892. The attempt was
unsuccessful, but four citizens and four of the bandits were killed. Three
bandits undertook to rob the London bank, and all of them were killed. Mr.
Carpenter was on duty in the bank at the time. In addition to his interest in this
concern Mr. Carpenter has other investments that demand a portion of his
attention, among which is the largest insurance agency in the county. Mr. Carpenter
is a Republican. He has never had any aspiration for political honors,
preferring to devote his entire time and attention to his business, in which he
occupies a prominent and well deserved position. However, he has taken considerable
interest in the prohibition movement in Kansas. He takes quite an interest in
fraternal societies, is a Royal Arch Mason, and has membership in other
fraternal and insurance organizations. He has been a resident of Kansas for
thirty-five years, and, as will be seen by the foregoing, has been prominently
identified with its interests. In 1892 he was married to Miss Temple West, daughter
of Joshua West, of Rockford, Ind., and of this union have been born five sons
and two daughters—Walter, Samuel, Charles, Hugh, Marjorie, William, and Sarah.
Pages 252-253 from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state
history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns,
prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected
personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. :
front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed
December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansas State
Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3.
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A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans
Charles T. Carpenter is one of the pioneer bankers of Coffcyville, and for thirty years has been closely identified with what is now known as the Condon National Bank, being vice president of that institution. Mrs. Temple W. Carpenter, his wife, is one of the prominent women of Southern Kansas, has been a leader in religious, social and public affairs, and is president of the Carnegie Library of Coffeyville, and is the only woman who has ever been honored with a place on the school board of that city.
The Carpenter family is a very old one in America, having been transplanted from England to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, as early as 1632. From there its descendants moved to Pennsylvania, and into North Carolina and Kentucky. Mr. Carpenter has ancestors who fought in the Revolution.
Charles T. Carpenter was born at Palmetto, Tennessee, December 9, 1858, and belongs to a substantial stock of people who were extensive planters in early Tennessee, but were stanchly aligned with the Union cause and in the difficulties that grew out of the Civil war moved north of the Ohio River. Peter Carpenter, grandfather of the Coffeyville banker, was born in North Carolina in 1790. He was reared and married in his native state, became a planter, and moved his family to Tennessee, establishing a homestead on an eminence long known as Carpenter Hill. He was a stanch whig, and on account of his pronounced advocacy of the Union cause he had to refugee from Tennessee during the war, and lived at Bloomfield, Iowa, where he died in 1865. Peter Carpenter married Margaret Ramsey, who was born in 1805, and died at the old estate at Carpenter Hill in Tennessee in 1845. She was of Scotch-Irish descent and her ancestors had come to America at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Samuel Carpenter, father of Charles T., was born at Knob Creek, North Carolina, in 1826, and was reared and educated near Palmetto, Tennessee. He became a merchant, and in 1874 moved out to Kansas and locating at Oswego established one of the early general mercantile stores there. He retired from business in 1887 and died at Oswego in 1901. He was a republican, and was practically a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church, serving as a member for forty years. Samuel Carpenter married Sarah Montgomery, who was born in Tennessee in 1831 and died in Oswego, Kansas, in 1907. Their children were; Laura C., wife of Dr. W. H. Belt, a physician and surgeon at Oswego, Kansas. Robert P., in the real estate and insurance business at Oklahoma City; Charles T.; Mary, wife of L. J. Van Alstyne, who is connected with the Carpenter & Van Alstyne mercantile establishment at Oswego, Kansas; Samuel, Jr., also a member of the firm of Carpenter & Van Alstyne at Oswego; Margaret, a teacher in the Central High School of Kansas City, Missouri.
Charles T. Carpenter had his first schooling in a private institution at Palmetto, Tennessee. After his parents moved to Kansas he continued his education in the State University at Bloomington, Indiana, where he was graduated A. B. in 1876. He then came out to Kansas to join his parents at Oswego, and spent five years in the employ of his father. While at Oswego he became connected with his real work in life, and served two years as cashier of the Condon Bank there. In 1886 he came to Coffeyville as one of the partners in the Condon Bank, which was then a private institution and had been established at Coffeyville that year. The bank took out a state charter in 1898, and since 1903 had been the Condon National Bank. Its present officers are: C. M. Ball, president; Charles T. Carpenter, vice president; C. A. Walker, cashier; and F. S. Mitchell, assistant cashier. This is one of the old and reliable banks of Southern Kansas, and had a capital of $100,000 and surplus and profits of $50,000. In September, 1916, the bank completed its handsome new home, a two-story terra cotta building at 814 Walnut Street in Coffeyville.
Mr. Carpenter is also senior partner in the Charles T. Carpenter Insurance Agency, the largest agency of the kind in Montgomery County, and handling life, fire, hail, cyclone, accident, plate glass, and practically every line of insurance. For twelve years Mr. Carpenter served as president of the Coffeyville Board of Education and is still a member of the board. He is trustee of the Montgomery County High School at Independence. Politically he is independent, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, which he had served as trustee and elder, and had made himself an influential factor in everything that concerns the better life and progress of his home city.
In 1892 at Bockport, Indiana, Charles T. Carpenter and Miss Temple West were united in marriage. Mrs. Carpenter was born in Pike County, Indiana. Her ancestors, the Wests, came from England to Virginia in colonial times. Her grandfather, Hugh West, a native of Virginia, saw active service in the Mexican war, and spent his life as a farmer in Kentucky and Ohio. He died in Clermont County, Ohio. He was a whig in politics. Hugh West married Rosanna Boyd, who was born in South Carolina and died in Indiana about 1867.
J. D. West, father of Mrs. Carpenter, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1828, grew up there, but when quite young went to Pike County, Indiana, where he was a successful farmer and stockman, and where he died in 1900. He was a republican. In 1861 he enlisted with an Indiana regiment and served all through the war, first under the command of Grant and later under Sherman. In one battle he was taken prisoner, and was confined at Andersonville until exchanged. J. D. West married Sophronia Brock, who was born in Virginia in 1834 and died in Pike County, Indiana, in 1870. Their children were: Joshua, who was a farmer and died in Pike County, Indiana; Mrs. Carpenter; Leander, who is employed in an elevator at Mount Carmel, Illinois; Eva, who died at Rockport, Indiana, in 1875, unmarried.
Mrs. Carpenter received her early education in Rockport, Indiana, graduating from the high school there in 1882, and in the same year entering the State University at Bloomington, where she completed the course and received the degree Ph. B. in 1886. She is a member of the college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta. For several years before her marriage Mrs. Carpenter taught at Rockport and also at Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to the conscientious care of her home and family, Mrs. Carpenter had accomplished a great deal in the sphere of woman's activities. Since early girlhood she had been a worker in the Presbyterian Church. For a number of years she had served as treasurer of Chapter No. 112 of the Eastern Star at Coffeyville. Mrs. Carpenter is one of the charter members of the Searchlight Club, the original woman's club of Coffeyville, and was its president for a long time. She had been closely associated with local affairs, particularly those affecting the educational progress of the city, and is president of the Carnegie Library Board. Reference had already been made to the fact that she is the only woman who ever served on the board of education, and she filled that important post in local affairs four years.
To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter were born seven children: Walter Thomas is a director and bookkeeper in the Condon National Bank, being a graduate of the Coffeyville High School, as are all the other older children; Samuel is in his father's insurance office; Charles T. is also learning the insurance business under his father's direction; Hugh is now in the junior class of the Kansas University at Lawrence; Margery, after finishing the high school course in 1916, entered Oswego College for Women; William is a freshman in the Coffeyville High School; Sarah is in the seventh grade of the public schools.
Source: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans
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Walter Carpenter
24215.
Samuel Carpenter
24216.
Charles Theodore Carpenter
16512.
Joseph Archibald Carpenter
16517.
Jerome H. Carpenter
16518.
Gilbert Carpenter
16520.
Austin B. Carpenter
16526.
Walter Samuel Carpenter
16545.
Alexander N. Carpenter