27541.
Wilbur Nelson Carpenter
32439.
Donna Marie Carpenter
27542.
Helen Gertrude Carpenter
27543.
Vivian Carpenter
32442.
Patricia Carpenter
27544.
Lynn Carpenter
32446.
Leeland Lynn Carpenter
32447.
Richard Carpenter
27545.
Charles Lorain Carpenter Rear Admiral
Number 1167-6 in the Timothy Carpenter book. Charles was the compiler of
"THE DESCENDANTS OF TIMOTHY CARPENTER OF PITTSTOWN, RENSSELAER Co., NEW YORK."
and
"THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM CARPENTER (of) Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts" Final draft version dated March 28, 1988. Unpublished work of 813 pages.
Born at at home at 1500 hours (3:00 PM).
Charles, the compiler, sometimes referred to as "Chuck" and "Charlie"
preferred the latter, as did his father.
Charlie was baptized in the United Brethern Curch, Greenburg. PA, in 1902 and
his spouse, Dorothy, was baptized in St. Patrick's Church, Natlick, MA on May
19, 1907 by the Rev. Michael F. Delaney.
See image: RIN 11548 Charles L Carpenter pic.jpg
He received his early education in Wilkinsburg, PA public schools and later
entered the University of Pittsburgh (PITT), where he pursued a cousrse in
mechanical engineering and participated in the U.S. Army ROTC program. He
attended the Coast Artillary summer camp at Fortress Monroe in 1921.
In the spring of 1922, he received from the Hon. M. Clyde Kelly, Congressional
Representative of the 30th PA District, an appointment to the United
States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. He entered the Academy June 16, 1922 and
was sworn in as a Midshipman, USN, that date. He participated in track, as he
had done in high school. He remained in the Naval Service until retirement on
June 30, 1956 with the rank of Rear Admiral.
He served as a "Black Shoe" officer (eligible to command combatant ships at
sea) in Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Attack Transports, Cargo ships, and
in numerous Shore Stations and in foreign countries.
Admiral Charles Carpenter served in all three Theaters of Operations in World
War Two. He wore the Navy Cross, Purple Heart, nine Service Bars, Combat
Command Insignia, and foreign decorations from the goverments of Nicaragua,
Peru and Spain.
He was a member of numerous Masonic and Military Oders, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
National Collegiate Fraternity at PITT, the NY Yacht Club, the Historical
Soocieties of PA and Waterboro, Maine and was a commmunicant of the
United Methodist (orginally United Brethern) Church as of April 12, 1914.
In his early life, he participated in the Boy Scout movement.
After retirement, he was appointed Executive Director of the United Theological
Seminary Foundation, Inc.. and was a member of the Delaware, PA board of
Realtors. Upon retirement he settled his family in Drexel Hill, PA and that
has remained his official address. His main avocation has long been
genealogical research. He is also interested in antiques, particularly early
Americana and the restoration of antique furniture. One hobby is collecting
mustache cups and saucers; he has one of the finest collections in the country.
DEATH: Charles L. Carpenter, Rear Admiral, USN Retired, died February 21, 1992,
of a heart attack at Riddle Memorial Hospital, Media, Pennsylvania. Funeral
services were held at the Spencer Videon Funeral Home in Drexel Hill.
Interment was in the Carpenter family plot in the South Pine Grove Cemetery,
South Waterboro, Maine. Submitted by his son, Charles L. Carpenter, Jr. of
Coranado, CA.
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http://www.janesoceania.com/delong_memoirs/
Memoirs of George Albert DeLong
( 26th June 1922 - 22nd March 2002 )
...
Perhaps the most vivid memory of the November 13 battle occurred at approximately 11.00 in the morning after the battle was over. Five of the six ships that survived the battle intact enough to steam under their own power had been collected by Helena's Captain Hoover to head back to Espiritu Santo. The ships were the San Francisco, Helena, Juneau, Fletcher and Sterett. The sixth ship, the O'Bannon, had been sent ahead to radio a message to Admiral Halsey.
On the Helena, Captain Hoover had secured the ship from General Quarters and set a condition that called for standing one four hour watch on duty and four hours off. My assignment was on the bridge in the pilot house as helmsman. While steering the ship I had the opportunity to glance out the port holes and I saw the condition of the San Francisco and the Juneau. I remember commenting to one of the men in the pilot house that the San Francisco look so beat up that she would be lucky to make it back to Espiritu Santo, but that the Juneau, while she was down by the bow, still looked seaworthy enough to make it back
Shortly thereafter, however, Lt. Comdr. Carpenter, the ship's navigator, who seldom left the bridge, shouted, "Hard right rudder, DeLong." I spun the rudder over hard right and started singing out the course changes every ten degrees. I glanced out the port hole as the bow swung past the line of sight to the Juneau who had been on our starboard quarter in the formation. The ship was swinging at a rapid speed now and I had no idea what was going on.
Suddenly, Comdr. Carpenter hollered, "Hard left rudder." I reversed the rudder, but the momentum was still carrying the ship to the right. The ship shuddered for several seconds and slowly started to turn left when an immense explosion took place. I glanced out the port hole and all I could see was a huge cloud in the direction the Juneau had been.
By this time the Helena was making good time through the water again and picking up momentum heading straight for the cloud. The wheel was still turned hard left and I had no idea where either the Juneau or the San Francisco were. Total silence reigned in the pilot house and on the wings of the bridge.
Now it was my turn to shout! "Where is she? Where is she? Where is she? I don't want to ram her!" Everyone was out on the wing of the bridge except me and no one other than myself was talking.
Finally, one of the sailors stuck his head in the door and quietly said, "DeLong, she ain't nor more." I didn't fully understand what he meant but I decided to ease the rudder lest it bang against the stops and get stuck. I was a little late but in time enough to keep the rudder from jamming. There was a jolt as the rudder hit the stop, but it was light enough so there was no jamming.
The people that had gone outside now filled me in with what had happened. The Juneau didn't sink; she was blown up. Everyone had seen pieces of her flying through the sky. The largest piece was reported as one of her five inch gun mounts flying over the Helena.
Captain Hoover wisely decided to save all the ships he could and decided not to stop to look for survivors - no one though there would be any. Even if there were, the subs might still be around and more ships and men could be lost.
As a footnote to this event, many years later, I ran across Lt. Comd. Carpenter (by that time Admiral Carpenter) at a Helena reunion and he filled in some details that I hadn't known. We were seated across from each other at a dinner table. We were all telling sea stories and I started telling them my story - (I had forgotten that it was Commander Carpenter who had issued the orders to the wheel). Right in the middle of my story Carpenter looked at me and said, "And do you know who issued those orders?" When I admitted that I didn't remember, but wished that I could, he replies, "I did." The minute he said that, I remembered.
From that point on he took over the story. He told us that in the early part of his career he had taken special training on spotting and tracing torpedo wakes and that was one of the reasons he felt a little safer when he was on the bridge in treacherous waters. As a result of his early training he was the first one to see the wakes of the two torpedoes coming from the port side. Both torpedoes went between the Helena and the San Francisco and when both ships turned, the torpedoes went past us and one of them hit the Juneau. We were not able to warn the Juneau in time to save her.
George A. DeLong
USNA:
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Charles Lorain Carpenter wilkinsburg, pennsylvania ' ' Chuck ' ' Kid Carp CHUCK came to us from Pitt. There he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and a track man of no mean ability. It happened in the course of his track career that he once had occasion to visit the Naval Academy. Here for the first time in his life he saw mid- shipmen, blue-and-gold clad midshipmen; so fine, and so sportsmanlike were these midshipmen that Carp gave his Congressman no rest until he had been made one of them. Carp ' s biggest roles at the Academy were track, hops, and cold showers. Coincidently, in track events his competitors run with him; at hops, the drags run after him; and in his after-reveille showers, the cold water runs over him. So we adjudge him the Naval Academy ' s champion all-round runner. Socially, with his ready smile, he gets bv big. Physically, one need onlv ask to see his numerous medals. Mentally, he laughs at the Academic Department while his roommates bilge. And morally, he goes to Chapel every Sunday whether he has to or not. " Oh, say, Carpenter, have you heard the latest? " " No, what is it? " " Why, there is a track meet the Saturday before Easter. " " Well, I ' ll be darned. And I wanted to go home for Easter Leave. " Track Squad (^4, 5, 2, 7), aNa (4), Navy Numerals (;?); Expert Kiflemat!, Black N *. 339
MILITARY:
http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=19518
Charles Lorain Carpenter
Date of birth: 31-Jul-02
Date of death: 21-Feb-92
Place of Birth: Greensburgh, Pennsylvania
Home of record: Greensburgh, Pennsylvania
Charles Carpenter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Class of 1926. He retired as a U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.
Awards and Citations
Navy Cross
Awarded for actions during the Second Nicaraguan Campaign
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Ensign Charles Lorain Carpenter (NSN: 0-60331), United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism, coolness and excellent judgment in the performance of duty during an insurrection in Nicaragua. Ensign Carpenter was a member of the Leon detachment of the landing force and on 17 May 1927, while attempting to arrest and disarm an ex-rebel soldier after having been twice fired on, and at the time being surrounded by a crowd who egged on his aggressor, he in self defense shot and killed the soldier in question, thereby producing a most salutary effect on the population. His actions at all times were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
Action Date: 17-May-27
Service: Navy
Rank: Ensign
Division: Leon Detachment
OBIT:
http://articles.philly.com/1992-02-24/news/26039149_1_carpenter-navy-cross-navy-officer
Charles L. Carpenter, 89, A Retired Rear Admiral
February 24, 1992 By Richard V. Sabatini, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Rear Admiral Charles L. Carpenter, 89, a retired Navy officer who saw active duty during several World War II battles, died Friday in Riddle Memorial Hospital. He lived in Lima, Delaware County.
Raised in Wilkinsburg, east of Pittsburgh, he attended the University of Pittsburgh and was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922.
Following graduation in 1926, Mr. Carpenter served in the second Nicaraguan campaign. Afterward, he was stationed at the Boston Navy Yard and then assigned to Pacific duty.
It was during World War II that Mr. Carpenter commanded several amphibious craft in the battles of Guadalcanal and Okinawa and was navigator aboard the cruiser Helena when it was sunk in 1943 at Kula Gulf in the Solomon Islands.
For his service during the war, Mr. Carpenter received a number of medals and citations, including the Navy Cross and Purple Heart.
After the war, Mr. Carpenter was stationed at the 12th Naval District in San Francisco and subsequently commanded a research vessel during atomic-bomb testing at Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads.
Subsequently, he served in the U.S. Naval Mission to Lima, Peru, in 1950. He was then stationed at Naval Headquarters in Washington, and was commodore of a destroyer squadron in the Mediterranean in 1952.
His last assignment, before retiring from the Navy in 1956, was commander of the Naval Receiving Station at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
After leaving the Navy, Mr. Carpenter moved to Drexel Hill, where he lived until moving to Lima, Delaware County, in 1978.
He became executive director of the Pennsylvania United Theological
Seminary Foundation and served as its chief fund-raiser until the early 1960s.
His wife, the former Dorothy Hannah, died in 1973.
A Mason, Mr. Carpenter was also a member of the Drexel Hill United Methodist Church.
He is survived by his son, Charles L. Jr., a retired major of the U.S. Marines; daughter, Olivia Salzberg, and six grandchildren.
Services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Spencer T. Videon Funeral Home, Garrett Road and Shadeland Avenue, Drexel Hill. Interment will be in South Waterboro, Maine.
Born at her parents home at 3:00 PM and died in the hospital at 3:34 PM.
Buried in Lot 5, Grave 2 of the South Pine Grove Cemetery.
Married by Rev. Edward Marsh on Saturday August 8, 1931.
Dorothy was referred to as "Dottie" and "Dot", was the only child of her
parents. She received an early education in Natick public schools, then
entered the M. G. Francis School for Beauty Culture in Boston. Upon graduation
she went into bussiness for herself in the Brookline area of Boston.
In 1922, she was chosen from among 75 Natick young girls as the prettiest one
from that town at a dancing party held by Mrs. Farnsworth in the Casino at
Farmingham, MA receiving a silver cup.
About 1928, she gave up her business and became assoiciated with Filene's of
Boston in their cosmetics department, also modeling women's outer accessories
for their ads in the Boston Post.
She was communicant of the United Methodist Church in various parts of the
country as she moved from station to station as a Navy wife. She was also a
charter member of the Waterboro, Maine Historical Society.
Dottie had the unique experience of sailing in the U.S.S. GOLD STAR with
Charlie and son Skipper (Charlie, Jr.) on seven loops around the Orient. The
GOLD STAR was a cargo ship, based at Guam. The officers attached to it and
some of the enlisted men were permitted to have their families with them when
the ship sailed from Guam. Each loop took about seven weeks, visiting Manila,
Hong Kong, Shanghai and in Japan, Miki-Ko, Nagasaki, Kobe, Nagoa, and Yokohama.
Dottie's life-long associations were in Maine, where she and Charlie spent long
summers in their residence at Goodwins Mills.
Dottie provided in Charlie's name, Memorial Cahir Seat 18 in row 22 of section
2 at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.
Dottie's will, executed at Kittery, Maine on Sept. 14, 1971, and probated (in
Part) at Media, PA May 11, 1973 (Will #52786 in book 235, page 127), went
through final probate at Alfred, Maine on Sept. 12, 1973 (File #2173A); husband
Charlie, was named executor without bond.
A large, blue granite, Rock of Ages stone was erected on Lot 5 of South Pine
Grove Cemetery, south Waterboro, Maine in the fall of 1973. It contains the
names of Dottie and Charlie, their son Charlie, Jr., and their daughter,
Olivia. there are individual grave markers for Dottie and Charlie.
27572.
Winifred Carpenter
32456.
Frank Foss
27573.
Ruth Carpenter