Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, Rev Samuel T 1810 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

REV. SAMUEL T. CARPENTER, late a minister of the Episcopal Church and who was 
well known to many of the residents of this county as a man thoroughly devoted 
to the Master's work, was a native of Glassboro, N. J., and born September 25, 
1810. He received a thorough education, being graduated at Kenyou College, at 
Gambier, Ohio, and soon afterward entered upon the duties of his chosen 
calling. His first charge was in Sharon, Conn., and he subsequently located in 
Monroe, Mich. He was for a time Chaplain in the Main Street Hospital in 
Covington, Ky, and also at Camp Denison, Ohio. His death occurred December 26, 
1874, in Cincinnati, Ohio, when a little more than three-score and four years 
of age. By his first marriage Mr. Carpenter became the father of two children, 
one of whom, Samuel C. B. served in the Union Army as a member of Company B, 
One Hundredth Illinois Infantry. He endured great hardship and exposure and 
excessive marching, which so undermined his health that he died from the 
effects thereof October 1, 1871, after a long illness in Cincinnati and 
Joliet. The other child, Frances M., a daughter, makes her home with her 
stepmother in Joliet. Later Mr. Carpenter was wedded to Miss Emily D. 
Thompson, who was born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 31, 1830. Her parents were 
Richard and Elizabeth (Denny) Thompson, and the father while a resident of the 
Quaker City, occupied himself as a commission merchant. In that city he passed 
away. Mrs. Thompson died at the residence of Mrs. Carpenter in Joliet, in May, 
1872. Until her marriage Mrs. Carpenter lived in Philadelphia and Wilmington, 
Del. The ceremony was performed June 29, 1852, at the bride's home in 
Wilmington, by Bishop Lee of the Episcopal Church of that city. Of this union 
there were born five children, all of whom are living. Herbert D. was born in 
Smyrna, Del., June 2, 1853, and after completing his literary education began 
reading law under the instruction of Phelps & Clement; he was admitted to the 
bar in December, 1878, and is now practicing his profession in Joliet, being 
located at No. 102 Jefferson Street. He is an ardent supporter of the 
Republican party. Florence married Albert W. Fiero of Joliet; Horace T. is in 
business at Milwaukee, Wis.; R. Howell is engaged in railroading in Joliet; 
Louis T. C. is a salesman in a wholesale house in Chicago. Mrs. Carpenter and 
her children located in Joliet in 1865, and there she has since lived. She is, 
religiously, a member of the Episcopal Church and stands at the head of a 
family which is highly spoken of throughout the city. 

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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