Sonoma-El Dorado-San Mateo County CA Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, W. W. 1828 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Carpenter, W. W., M. D. Was born in the town of Hyde Park, Dutchess county, New
York, August 18, 1828. His portion in life up to the sixteenth year of his age
was hard farm labor, with the usual three months' attendance upon the district
school during the Winter months. In the Winter of 1846 he attended one term at
the Fairfield Academy, Herkimer county, New York. In the following Spring he
commenced studying medicine under John Dodge, M. D., of Clinton: and under his
tutilage, and that of Professor Marsh, of Albany, the next three years were
consumed. February 13, 1850, he sailed for California, on the old United States
mail steamship " Ohio," Captain Schenck; and thirty-six hours afterwards, in a
terrific storm off Cape Hatteras, he wished California in Tophet, and himself
safely on terra firma. On the 17th they touched off the bars of Charleston and
Savannah, for the exchange of mails and passengers, and sailed into the
beautiful harbor of Havana on the morning of the 21st. Sailed from Havana on the
22d; crossed the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi on the 23d, and landed at
New Orleans on the 24th. Left New Orleans on the 28th, and landed in Chagres,
March 9th; March 24th sailed from Panama, on the steamship "Tennessee," her
first trip; stopped at Acapulco, April 1st, and arrived at San Francisco April
14th—two months and one day from the date of sailing. San Francisco was then a
congregation of sand hills, and Sacramento a swamp. Dr. Carpenter spent his
first year in the mines, principally at Coloma, Georgetown, and Barn's Bar,
north fork of American river; since which time he has devoted his whole
attention to his profession. On January 24, 1854, he was married at Woodside,
San Mateo county, to Miss Adelaide Elmira Craig; and soon after moved to La
Porte, Sierra county, California. He remained three years at the latter place,
when he removed to Gibsonville, in the same county. While at the latter place he
held the office of Postmaster, and at the same time that of School Trustee. It
was through the exertions of Dr. Carpenter that the public school system was
successfully established in Gibsonville. He also held the office of County
Physician of the northern half of Sierra county while residing at Gibsonville.
In May, 1861, he moved to Petaluma, where he has permanently resided to the
present time. In 1864 the Legislature conceived the plan of allowing the
northern and southern ends of Sonoma county to take charge of their respective
indigent sick, and in accordance made a division of the funds set apart for that
purpose. Dr. Carpenter was appointed County Physician for the southern half of
the county, and discharged the duties of his office satisfactorily to the county
and with credit to himself. He was one of the originators of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Petaluma, and ever since has been one of its
most ardent supporters, and an officer in the society.

Additional Comments:
Petaluma Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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