CENSUS: 1880 US Census
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
George CARPENTER Self M Male M 48 CT Laborer CT CT
Henrietta CARPENTER Wife M Female M 31 CT Keeping House CT CT
Stanley J. CARPENTER Son S Male M 15 CT At Home CT CT
Grace CARPENTER Dau S Female M 13 CT At Home CT CT
George CARPENTER Son S Male M 9 CT At Home CT CT
Sarah CARPENTER Dau S Female M 6 CT Attended School During Current Year CT CT
Mary CARPENTER Dau S Female M 4 CT CT CT
Walter CARPENTER Son S Male M 2 CT CT CT
Eliza CARPENTER Dau S Female M 6M CT CT CT
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Source Information:
Census Place New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut
Family History Library Film 1254101
NA Film Number T9-0101
Page Number 559C
BIRTH: Age 6 months in the 1880 US Census.
Number 4705 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 488.
Family on page 660 (#1200)
Place of birth unknown, but probably was CT.
NAME: Zyntha KELTON (AFN:NT9T-9B)
Born: 16 Dec 1801 Place: Warwick, Hampshire, Ma
Died: 23 Jul 1863 Place: Richmond, Cheshire, Nh
Father: Rufus KELTON (AFN:NT9S-XG)
Mother: Hannah BROWN (AFN:KH93-M7)
Number 6747 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 660.
Number 6748 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 660.
Number 6749 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 660.
9607. Charles Franklin Carpenter
Walt Carpenter submitted this descendant line on 7 Mar 2009.
Number 4833 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 499.
Family on page 666 (#1225). A lawyer and served in the senate in 1869.
Extensive notes on pages 500 to 506.BIRTH: He was born and baptised "Merritt Hammond" but he didn't like the name
so he changed it.BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter,
The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 31
He was a U.S. Senator.SEE: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 2, page 512, by Allen Johnson.
He is listed as a lawyer, and senator (Rep.). Much detailed information
there.Newspaper: "The Evening News." Dated Detroit, Saturday, August 23, 1873.
It states:
"The New York Tribune, in response to the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, on the
Senator Carpenter scandal, says that the Tribune makes no charges that can
not be substantiated, and hopes that if Mr. Carpenter has been aggrieved by
anything that has appeared in its columns he will resort to his remedy at
law; and the Tribune being a journal of ample pecuniary responsibility,
whatever damage a jury of his countrymen shall say he has sustained will be
promptly paid. More than that, the Tribune will gladly pay any sum that may
be so assessed in damages to be convinced that the life and conduct of Mr.
Matt Carpenter are such as may be held up for an example, instead of a
warning to the young men of the country. For proof of that the Tribune is
willing to pay liberally."
In another location of the same paper:
Under "POLITICAL NOTES":
"A serious attempt is being made to kill off President Grant. The Rutland
Globe alludes to the failing health of Vice President Wilson, and his
possible death, and expresses it's horror at seeing Matt. Carpenter, as
President of the Senate, so near to the White House. The New York Tribune
has also been studying the law of decent in the case, and shows that in the
event of Grant, Wilson and Carpenter all dying the country would have to get
along without a chief magistrate till Congress meets in December. Now this
speculating on the effect of men's deaths is just the way to kill them. the
human mind is eculiar, and if the very knowledge that their decease is a
matter of discussion on every street corner is not in itself sufficient to
worry out the vital spark, there are plenty of insane Ravalliacs and Booths
in the country who would jump at the chance to gain themselves "a mission",
which the mere suggestion afforded. Three Presidents have died in office
within a quarter of a century. If we were Grant we should increase our life
insurance forthwith. By the way, Grant still lacks a week of completing the
first six months of his second term, yet the subject of his successor in 1877
is already discussed by the topic-starved public press. etc.etc.etc...
Submitted by Jan on 27 July 1999. Gumpysfarm@aol.com .
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000171
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
CARPENTER, Matthew Hale, 1824-1881
Senate Years of Service: 1869-1875; 1879-1881
Party: Republican; Republican
Pages 950-951
Carpenter, Matthew Hale, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Moretown,
Washington County, Vt., December 22, 1824; attended the common schools;
entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1843 and
remained two years; studied law in the office of Rufus Choate; was
admitted to the bar in 1847 and practiced in Boston, Mass.; moved to
Beloit, Wis., in 1848; district attorney of Rock County 1850-1854; moved
to Milwaukee in 1858; until the commencement of the Civil War belonged to
the Douglas wing of the Democratic [p.951] Party; represented the
Government in the celebrated McCardle case, and brought to trial the
validity of the reconstruction act of March 7, 1867, for the government
of the States then in rebellion, and won the case in the Supreme Court;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March
4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; elected President pro tempore of the Senate
March 12, 1873, March 26, 1873, December 11, 1873, and December 22, 1874;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1875; resumed the practice of
law in Washington and in Milwaukee; again elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in
Washington, D.C., February 24, 1881; interment in Forest Home Cemetery,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Bibliography
American National Biography; DAB; Deutsch, Herman J. ‘Carpenter and the Senatorial Election of 1875 in Wisconsin.’ Wisconsin Magazine of History 16 (September 1932): 26-46; Thompson, E. Bruce. Matthew Hale Carpenter, Webster of the West. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954.http://www.answers.com/topic/matthew-h-carpenter
Carpenter, Matthew HaleMatthew Hale Carpenter was born December 22, 1824, in Moretown, Vermont. He attended the U.S. Military Academy from 1843 to 1845 and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1847. His real name was Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter and although he was educated in Vermont, he established his public career in Wisconsin.
In 1861 Carpenter served as judge advocate general. He participated in the U.S. Senate, serving as senator from Wisconsin during the years 1869 to 1875 and 1879 to 1881.
His legal skills were displayed in his representation of Secretary of War William W. Belknap at the latter's impeachment trial. In 1877 Carpenter acted as legal counsel to Democratic presidential candidate Samuel Tilden during an inquiry held by the electoral commission concerning the contested election results. Tilden lost to Rutherford B. Hayes by one electoral vote.
Carpenter died February 24, 1881, in Washington, D.C.
http://www.answers.com/topic/matthew-h-carpenter?method=5&linktext=Matthew%20H.%20Carpenter
Matthew Hale Carpenter, born Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter, (December 22, 1824 - February 24, 1881) was a member of the Republican Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1869 - 1875 and again from 1879 - 1881.Carpenter was born in Moretown, Vermont. He served as District Attorney of Rock County, Wisconsin, from 1850 - 1854. He was originally a member of the Democratic Party until the start of the Civil War. While in the United States Senate, he served as the President pro tempore during the 43rd Congress.Carpenter died in Washington, D.C.,while in office and was buried at Forrest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2138
Carpenter, Matthew Hale [B. "Carpenter","Decatur Merritt","Hammond"] 1824 - 1881
Definition: lawyer, Senator, b. Moretown, Vt. He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1843-1845), studied law under Paul Dillingham and Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. In 1848 he moved to Wisconsin, settling in Beloit, where he practiced law and served several years as district attorney of Rock County. In the 1850's he changed his name to Matthew Hale Carpenter. Rising rapidly in legal and political circles, in 1856 he was one of the attorneys for William A. Barstow (q.v.) in the disputed gubernatorial election of 1855. In 1858 he moved to Milwaukee, where he conducted a brief law partnership (1858-1859) with Edward G. Ryan (q.v.). An avid Democrat, in his early career he supported Stephen A. Douglas in the election of 1860. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he became a "war Democrat" and soon joined the ranks of the Republican party. In 1869 he was selected by the Republican state legislature to succeed James R. Doolittle (q.v.) as U.S. Senator. In the Senate, Carpenter identified himself with the radical supporters of President Grant, and vigorously defended him against the criticism of Senator Charles Sumner. One of the leading figures in the Senate, Carpenter was a brilliant orator and logician, but his insistance on legalism and seeming lack of deep-rooted loyalties gave political ammunition to his enemies, who attempted to make him the symbol of reconstruction corruption. In 1874 and 1875 a large portion of the press of both parties attacked Carpenter on both political and personal grounds. At home his defense of the Credit Mobilier and the "salary grab" act, his opinion that the state Potter law was constitutional, and his support of federal regulation of railroads led to his defeat. In the legislature of 1875 a group of Republicans promoted by C. C. Washburn (q.v.), A. M. Thomson (q.v.), and J. R. Doolittle defied the dictates of the party machine and united with the Democrats to secure the election of Republican dark-horse Angus Cameron (q.v.). In 1879 Carpenter was again elected to the Senate, succeeding Timothy O. Howe (q.v.), and held this office until his death. As a lawyer, Carpenter was recognized as one of the leading constitutionalists in the nation. He argued his first case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1862, acquired nationwide recognition in the McCardle case (1869), and was acknowledged to be the legal advocate for reconstruction policies. His other well-known cases included the famous Slaughterhouse cases (1873), the defense of Secretary of War William W. Belknap in the impeachment proceedings of 1876, and his retention by the Democrats (1877) to present the case of presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden to the electoral commission investigating the disputed election of 1876. Dict. Amer. Biog.;..F. A. Flower, Life of M. H. Carpenter (Madison, 1883); J. R. Berryman, ed., Bench and Bar of Wis. (2 vols., Chicago, 1898); Green Bag, 6 (1894) pp. 441-446; E. B. Usher, Wis. (8 vols., Chicago, 1914); Milwaukee Evening Wis., Feb. 24, 1881; Milwaukee Sentinel, Feb. 24, 1881; WPA field notes; E. B. Thompson, M. H. Carpenter (Madison, 1954).[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin biography]
Number 6825 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 666.
She died in infantcy.
Number 6826 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 666.
She died in infantcy.
Number 6827 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 666.
She died in infantcy.
Resided in Waterbury, VT
CENSUS:
1880 United States Census
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Erastus E. SPICER Self M Male W 52 VT Mechanic NH CT
Sarah L. SPICER Wife M Female W 47 VT Keeping House VT VT
Claribell SPICER Dau S Female W 21 MA Teacher VT VT
William C. SPICER Son S Male W 14 VT At School VT VT
William CARPENTER FatherL W Male W 74 VT Retired Merchant 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 269B
Resided in Griswoldville, ,MA. He was educataed at the common
schools and Newbury academy. He read law in Hon. Paul
Dillingham's office and commenced practice in Sandwich, ,IL in
1859. He moved to Burlington,,KS in 1868, and to
,MA in 1875.1 MILI At the commencement of the war in 1861 he enlisted in the
thirteenth IL regiment, he served in the western army
three years and was discharged as captain. CIVIL WAR VETERAN.
Of Buffalo, N.Y.
17254. Marian Wallace Carpenter
Resided in Burlington, ,KS
Resided in Aurora, N.Y.
Of Conway, ,MA.
Of Waterbury.
Resided in Waterbury.
He was educated in the common schools; he was a resident of
Waterbury, VT in 1880.1 MILI At the age of 16 he enlisted in the second Vermont regiment and
served in the Army of the Potomac for three years. CIVIL WAR VETERAN.CENSUS: 1880 United States Census
Household:Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Franklin CARPENTER Self M Male W 34 VT Drives Job Team VT VT
Ellen E. CARPENTER Wife M Female W 30 VT Keeping House VT NH
Lottie E. CARPENTER Dau S Female W 9 VT VT VT
Mabel L. CARPENTER Dau S Female W 2 VT VT VT
Moses W. SHURTLEFF FatherL M Male W 69 VT --- ---
Eliza SHURTLEFF MotherL M Female W 64 NH NH NH
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Source Information:
Census Place Waterbury, Washington, Vermont
Family History Library Film 1255349
NA Film Number T9-1349
Page Number 269B
Prior to going to Chicago he was a school teacher in the high
school in Burlington, VT He was last known living in Chicago
in 1896.2 SOUR S203
3 TEXT pg 489
Of Barre, VT
He removed to Denver, Colo. about 1878 and is a prominent
attorney there and takes much interest in the affairs of the
city; he is also engaged more or less in the mining business
and filled several terms in the state legislature.2 SOUR S203
3 TEXT pg 490
Of St. Albans, VT