Descendants of William Carpenter of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, now part of Bristol County, MA

Notes


25615. Dale Fleming Griffin

OCCUPATION: School Teacher In Indianapolis, Marion, IN.


Ivah Marie Lapo

OCCUPATION: School Teacher In Indianapolis, Marion, IN.


25617. Donald Marshall Carpenter

Donald Marshall Carpenter (Doc) served as an early Naval Aviator on the USS
Langley and USS Wright. These were the first aircraft carriers of the U.S.
Navy. Appointed to U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1916 from Pennsylvania.
Entered as midshipman 12 July 1912, graduated and commissioned Ensign 3 June
1916. Lieutenant (temporary rank) 15 October 1917. LTJG 3 June 1919. LT 1 July
1920 LCDR 1 September 1926. Retired 1 October 1936 for "incapacity from an
incident of the service".  He then worked for Consolidated Ryan until his
death from a heart problem.

BIRTH: Born 6 March 1894 at Hopbottom, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania per
Hill Goodspeed, Historian, Emil Buehler Naval Aviation Museum Library, 1750
Radford Boulevard, Suite C, N.A.S. Pensacola, Florida 32508,
: e-mail to TLC dated 6 Oct 2000.
Born in Hopbottom Township near Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA per Don Moreno
Carpenter.

From California Death Index:
CARPENTER, DONALD MARSHALL.
DOB: 03/06/1894.
DOD: 04/04/1940.
Mother's maiden name: MCVICAR.
Father's last name:   CARPENTER.
State of birth:       PENNSYLVANIA.
Location of death:    SAN DIEGO(37).
SSN:                  553-10-2643.
Age at death:         46.

A United States Naval Warship was named after this person.
USS Carpenter DD 825.  See the following web sites which has pictures and
details.
"http://sites.netscape.net/icejjjrhttp://www.plateau.net/usndd/dd825/Builder:
USS Carpenter built by:
Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, TX.
Keel date:        July 30, 1945.
Launched:         Dec. 28, 1945.
Completed:        Newport News, Virginia  Dec. 15, 1949.
Commissioned:     Newport News, Virginia  Dec. 15, 1949.
Stricken:         Dec. 20, 1981.
Fate:             Turkish Navy -  "Anitepe".
To Turkey:        February 20 1981, renamed Anittepe.
Stricken:         November 1997.
Fate:             Broken up for scrap.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/825.htm
Donald Marshall Carpenter, born in Hopbottom, Pennsylvania, on 6 March 1894, attended grade schools in Scranton and high school in McKeesport, and was appointed a midshipman from the 30th District of Pennsylvania on 11 July 1912. Graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, on 2 June 1916, “Doc” Carpenter reported to his first ship, Wyoming (Battleship No. 32) on 17 June. He was commissioned ensign on 5 July 1916. During his World War I service in Wyoming, Carpenter received temporary promotions to lieutenant (junior grade) (3 October 1917) and lieutenant (6 February 1918); permanent promotions to those ranks followed, on 12 March 1920 and 31 March 1921, respectively. Detached from Wyoming on 16 May 1921, Carpenter reported to Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, five days later, and over the ensuing months, helped fit out the new battleship California (BB-44). Detached from California on 8 May 1922, Carpenter was slated to join Nevada (BB-36) before her departure for the Atlantic coast, but received authorization to proceed to Pensacola, Florida, via commercial transportation, at his own expense, “for temporary duty under instruction in heavier-than-air craft.” Opting for flight training over continued service in battleships, Carpenter, authorized a month’s delay in transit, reported to NAS Pensacola on 19 June 1922. Upon completion of flight training, Carpenter was detached from NAS Pensacola on 3 April 1923; he also married Clara Moreno the same day (a union that ultimately produced two sons). He reported for duty with Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet, on 27 April 1923, and remained with that aeronautical organization until assigned temporary duty with Aircraft Squadrons, Scouting Fleet; he served with that unit until 20 May 1925. Commissioned lieutenant commander on 5 February 1927 while at Pensacola, Carpenter joined Stoddert (DD-302) on 23 June 1928 upon that destroyer’s return from operations with the Battle Fleet in Hawaiian waters, and served as her executive officer until 20 September 1929. Ordered to Langley (CV-1), he reported for duty the following day, and served in that aircraft carrier until 30 June 1930. Assuming command on 30 June 1930 of Scouting Squadron (VS) 3B, Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet, which operated in the air group assigned to the aircraft carrier Lexington (CV-2), he remained in that billet through his squadron’s being assigned to Carrier Divisions, U.S. Fleet, on 25 October 1930. Leaving VS-3B on 25 April 1931, Carpenter became executive officer of Fleet Air Base (FAB), Coco Solo, Canal Zone, on 26 May 1931, a billet he filled for almost two years, until relieved on 19 July 1933 to assume the post of operations officer for Aircraft Squadrons, Coco Solo. During the late summer of 1933, Carpenter commanded the ferry flight of the first division of Patrol Squadron (VP) 5F from NAS Norfolk, Virginia to FAB Coco Solo. Carpenter flew 5-P-2, one of six Consolidated P2Y-1 flying boats that departed Norfolk mid-way through the first dog watch on 7 September 1933 (accompanied personally during the initial stages of the flight by Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, in a Vought SU-1) and reached its destination, a little over halfway through the second dog watch the next day, having covered the 1,788 nautical miles in a total elapsed time of 25 hours and 29 minutes. In the longest non-stop formation seaplane flight in history, the six flying boats battled headwinds for almost the entire aerial voyage, at one point encountering a heavy squall with velocity approaching 50 knots. Detached from FAB Coco Solo on 15 May 1934, Carpenter reported on board seaplane tender Wright (AV-1) three days later, and became her navigator on 30 May 1934. He carried out those duties until hospitalized at the U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, on 20 November 1934. Released the following spring, he served at NAS San Diego from 11 April to 3 September 1935 before he became Inspector of Naval Aircraft, San Diego, on the latter date. Detached on 10 July 1936 to the Naval Training Station, San Diego, he was relieved of all active duty and placed on the retired list on 1 October 1936. Carpenter died of lobar pneumonia at the U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, on 4 April 1940. On 18 June 1945, Mrs. Edward S. Shaw, sister of Carpenter’s widow Clara, wrote to Admiral King, then Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet (who had commanded Lexington when Carpenter had commanded VS-3B) suggesting that a ship be named for the late leader of VP-5F’s historic flight in 1933, citing the "sincere respect" her brother-in-law had felt for King. "I sincerely hope you will not consider me presumptuous," she wrote, "but if you could lend your approval to such an honor for ‘Doc’ as we all knew him, I would appreciate it very much." "Please do this if you can," King wrote to the Chief of Naval Personnel, who recommended the name assignment on 10 July 1945; consequently, on 14 July 1945, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal assigned the name Carpenter to DD-825. In writing to Secretary Forrestal upon being informed of the naming of the ship, Carpenter’s widow wrote on 9 August 1945 of her “deep appreciation of the honor bestowed on my two sons and me in the naming of this ship for my late husband and I hope her record will be one of which to be proud..." Courtesy of the USS Carpenter (DD-825) Association and Al Salisbury.

This page has pictures.
http://www.ironbarr.com/usnships/ddk825.htm
Near the bottom is an interesting history of the ship.

Terry Lee Carpenter provided the following in his initial search and desire
to see the namesake of the USS Carpenter honored in the Carpenter CD.
http://www.plateau.net/usndd/dd825/dd825his.htm
Pictures, more  history, and a lot of e-mail traffic about the ship's career.
USS Carpenter (DD-825)   The Ship and Her History:
The destroyer USS Carpenter (DD-825) is named for Lieutenant Commander Donald
Marshall Carpenter, a prominent figure in the early days of naval aviation.
CARPENTER was launched at the Orange, Texas shipyard on 28 December 1945 and
commissioned after extended construction at the Newport News, Virginia
shipbuilding yards on December 15, 1949.  In March 1950, she was assigned to
the Pacific Fleet as a unit of the Navy hunter-killer anti-submarine warfare
force and home ported in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Local operations were conducted
until February 1952, when she was called to duty in the Korean War. As a unit
of Fast Carrier task force 77, she won two campaign stars.  From May of 1964
through June of 1965, CARPENTER underwent an extensive rehabilitation and
modernization (FRAM I), conversion at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. She was
rebuilt from the main deck up with a new aluminum superstructure, and equipped
with the latest anti-submarine warfare armament.  Since 1965, CARPENTER has
deployed five times to the Western Pacific for duty off Vietnam.
These cruises called on many of her capabilities, including search and rescue,
in-flight refueling of helicopters, plane guarding, and anti-submarine warfare
screening for aircraft carriers. For her services, she holds five campaign
stars. CARPENTER has also established herself as a unit of Joint Task Force
130, the Manned Spacecraft Recovery Force of the Pacific, acting as secondary
recovery ship on four Apollo missions.  In August 1972, CARPENTER changed home
ports to Treasure Island, San Francisco, California.  Upon completion of a
major overhaul at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in January 1973, CARPENTER
was transferred to the Naval Reserve Force (Pacific), and reported for duty to
Commander Destroyer Squadron 37. In addition to a rigid, but rewarding
refresher-training period in San Diego, California, CARPENTER has participated
in numerous reserve training and public relations cruises taking her up and
down the West Coast of the United States and Canada. Her duty included a three
month reserve training deployment to the Western Pacific as the flagship for a
task group of four ships.
During this cruise she participated in two major combined fleet exercises with
units from the Navies of Japan and the Republic of China.  In 1974, CARPENTER
changed her home port to the Naval Supply Center in Oakland, California.  The
ship, namesake of the "CARPENTER" Class comprised of two destroyers, is 390
feet long, 40 feet wide and displaces in excess of 3,000 tons. She is armed
with twin 5"/ 38 caliber guns, anti-submarine rockets (ASROC), and six torpedo
tubes. Her top speed is slightly more than 30 knots and she carries a
permanent crew of 180 officers and men with a supplement of 80 selected
reserve personnel.  Her motto, "LUKU MOKOLUU", which appears under the ship's
insignia of a Hawaiian Warrior superimposed on the red, white and blue of the
Hawaiian and American flags, is Hawaiian for "Killer of Undersea Boats".
Commanding Officers:
???  1949 - 1951.
CDR J.B. Grady, USN 1951 - 1953.
CDR E.F. Baldridge, USN 1953 - 1955.
CDR R.K. Joslin, USN 1955 - 1957.
CDR M.E. Bustard, USN 1957 - 1959.
CDR I.M. Laird, USN 1959 - 1961.
CDR A.P. Hulten, USN 1961 - 1962.
CDR C.W. Cummings, USN 1962 - 1964.
LCDR D.W. Jones, USN 1964 - 1965.
LT R.B. Cress, USN 1965 - 1966.
CDR G.W. Wineman, USN 1966 - 1968.
CDR W. Beck, JR., USN 1968 - 1970.
CDR H.N. Kay, USN 1970 - 1971.
CDR R.W. Blaes, USN 1971 - 1973.
CDR C.T. O'Neil, USN 1973 - 1975.
CDR D.D. Sheppard, USN 1975 - 19??.
CDR C.W. Jauss, USN. ?.

BOOK:
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/usna1910.htm
United States Naval Aviation 1910-1995.
Table of Contents.
(the following files are in .pdf, see note at bottom of this page) Welcome
Section for United States Naval Aviation 1910-1995 (38 kb file) Title page,
Contents, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements and Glossary (95 kb file).
    Part 1 A Few Pioneers 1898-1916 (634 kb file).
    Part 2 Test of Strength 1917-1919 (618 kb file).
    Part 3 The Twenties 1920-1929 (844 kb file).
    Part 4 The Thirties 1930-1939 (661 kb file).
    Part 5 World War II 1940-1945 (1.3 mb file).
I searched these parts for "Carpenter" and no mention was found!


Clara Dorr Moreno

Burial Services: 25 MAY 2000  11:30 a.m. Christ Episcopal Church, Coronado,
California.
NOTES:  Clare, as she preferred to be called, loved the Navy and the
exciting social activity that came with being married to a Naval Officer. Her
husband, Doc, was one of the pioneer Naval Aviators and many of his peers
became very senior officers.
One time in 1946 Bill and Marion Saltmarsh stayed with Clare in
Coronado, where she and Doc had settled in 1934. One night they returned from a
movie and found the house filled with Admirals who were in the kitchen washing
dishes. After Doc's death (1940) she was a hostess at Consolidated and later got
into real estate. She built several houses in Coronado and also sold many for
herself and other customers. At this writing in July 1998 she is still living
in Coronado in a beautiful condominium and is 95 years old, in poor health but
still hanging on! Many of her friends from Pensacola married naval aviators
(Pensacola is referred to as the Mother-in-Law of the Navy). These friends's
spouses were all senior Admirals.
Clare hobnobbed with the Bushes, the Shermans and the like. In her
later years Clare catered many parties and was a consummate hostess.
Clare died of natural causes very quitetly in her home (15 May 2000).
Her son, Pat, wrote that the service was wonderful and that over
a hundred of her friends spanning the ages from her contemporaries to ours
attended. Pat said that her sister, Susie Saltmarsh, would have been proud of
her "Topsy", as she called her. (Her sister, Elizabeth whom we all called
Liberta) coined this nickname and always referred to her as "Top".
Clara's cremains were interred with her first husband, Donald
Marshall Carpenter, at Fort Rosencrans National Cemetery.    This cemetery was
where her niece, Elizabeth Gabrielle Saltmarsh Wyatt was laid to rest in 1959.
Her father: Scarritt Moreno
Birth: 13 MAR 1862 Death: 23 FEB 1933 Pensacola, Escambia, Florida.
Burial: ABT 25 FEB 1933 St. Johns Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida.
Notes: Prominent Pensacolian who was in the Lumber and Timber business.
Her mother: Susan Sydney Roberts
Birth: 6 APR 1859 Christening: Death: 25 AUG 1911 Pensacola, Escambia, Florida.
Burial: ABT 28 AUG 1911 "Peace" (home), Westmoreland Cty, Virginia
Notes: She was the daughter of one of the partners of the once prominent
E. E. Simpson & Co. of Bagdad. She was a twin.