Sedgwick-Edwards County KS Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, Sherman O. 1852 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Sherman O. Carpenter is one of the successful farmers and business men of
Ninnescah township, Sedgwick county, Kansas. Mr. Carpenter was born in
Chautauqua county, New York, on July 28, 1852. His parents were Joseph S. and
Malinda (Lenox) Carpenter, both natives of New York. Mr. Carpenter, Sr., was
born May 18, 1828. They were married in New York and in 1877 came to Kansas and
settled in Edwards county. Mrs. Carpenter died June 20, 1893, and Mr. Carpenter
died on September 20, 1901. Sherman O. Carpenter was raised on a farm, and when
a young man learned the carpenter's trade. He came to Kansas with his father in
1877, and resided in Edwards county until September 21, 1880, when he returned
to New York and remained there until 1884. He then entered the building
department of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad on bridge work, and
remained with the company part of one year, when he came to Sedgwick county, and
in July, 1884, bought a threshing machine and commenced operating it. In the
fall of the same year he came to Clearwater and built a feed mill. For eighteen
years Mr. Carpenter operated his threshing outfit in Ninnescah and Ohio
townships, in partnership with M. B. Smith. In 1897 he bought 160 acres in
Section 16, Ninnescah township. After three years he sold this place and on
November 30, 1901, bought the 150 acres where he now resides in Section 13,
Ninnescah township. Mr. Carpenter was married on January 10, 1885, to Miss
Juliette Warren, who was born in New York. She died on September 12 of the same
year, and on September 9, 1888, Mr. Carpenter married Miss Edna Wright, who was
born in Indiana. Mrs. Carpenter is a daughter of Edward A. Wright, who came to
Kansas in 1876, where he first settled in Pawnee county, and later came to
Sedgwick county. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter have one son, Myron W. Carpenter, who
was born on June 19, 1889. He is now attending the Lawrence University. Mr.
Carpenter has been a director in the Clearwater State Bank since its
organization in 1899, and secretary of the Clearwater Lumber Company and a
director in the Clearwater Telephone Company. He has served three terms as
justice of the peace. Mr. Carpenter is a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and is a liberal in politics.



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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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