Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, Stephen 1865 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    STEPHEN CARPENTER, for nearly half a century a citizen of California, and
more than a quarter century resident of Santa Monica, is a native of Vermont. He
was born in the town of Highgate, Franklin county, March 29th, 1834. His father,
Loren C. Carpenter, was a native of the town of Barre, Washington county, and
was by occupation a millwright, owning a foundry and machine shop at Highgate.
He was a man of affairs and was a soldier of the War of 1812. He married
Caroline Fisk, a daughter of Stephen Fisk, who served in the Revolutionary War,
entering the army, a youth of seventeen, as a drummer and serving until the war
closed. He then repaired to the timbered forests of Vermont, where he cleared up
a farm and lived during the remainder of his life. Mr. Carpenter, when a small
boy of four years, suffered the loss of his mother by death, which event broke
up the home. He was taken in charge by an aunt at Bethel, with whom he lived for
about five years. He lived with other relatives until he was seventeen, when he
learned the millwright's trade of his father. Later, for seven years, he
followed his trade in Fillmore county, Minnesota. In 1863 he came to California
via the Isthmus of Panama. He proceeded to the then new development of the mines
of the Comstock lode and worked at his trade and timbering shafts as a
superintendent for several years. He came to Santa Monica in 1875 and returned
north. In 1882 he practically retired from active business pursuits. For
nineteen years his home stood on the property now occupied by the Santa Monica
City Hall. He served nine years as a member of the Santa Monica City School
Board and was for several years its chairman. Mr. Carpenter married in 1862 in
Minnesota, Miss Madaline Webb, a daughter of H. H. Webb (deceased) and sister of
H. H. Webb, a well-known business man and pioneer of Santa Monica. Mrs.
Carpenter died in Santa Monica October 3rd, 1904, leaving one daughter, Laura
E., wife of Albert D. Hawes of Santa Monica. Theirs was the first wedding
ceremony performed in Santa Monica. By a former marriage Mrs. Hawes has one son,
Stephen T. Garey, of Santa Monica, who, September 8th, 1906, married Miss Alvira
Harrison of Santa Monica.

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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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