Bio of CARPENTER, Elbert L. (b.1862), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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ELBERT L. CARPENTER - Vol III, pg 727-728
Through close application which leads to a complete mastery of any business.
Elbert L. Carpenter has been throughout his life identified with the lumber
trade, and since 1892 has operated under the name of the Shevlin-Carpenter
Company. In more recent years he has also extended his efforts into other fields
and is now a well known figure in connection with financial and insurance
interests in Minneapolis. Born in Rochelle, Illinois, March 6, 1862, he is a son
of Judson E. and Olivia (Detwiler) Carpenter, the former a native of New York,
while the latter was born in Maryland. Removing westward in early life Judson E.
Carpenter engaged in the lumber business in Iowa and in 1904 removed to
Minneapolis, where he continued in the same line for a number of years, but now
makes his home in Pasadena, California.
Elbert L. Carpenter acquired a common school education and following the
com­pletion of his high school course in Clinton, Iowa, he matriculated in the
Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois. When his textbooks were put aside
he received his initial business training under the direction of his father, who
was then president of the Curtis Brothers Lumber Company of Clinton, Iowa, which
also had extensive holdings in Wisconsin. In 1887 he became identified with the
lumber trade in Minneapolis as manager of the branch of the Curtis Brothers
Lumber Company, which was then operating under the name of the Adams-Hoar
Company and later as the Carpenter-Lamb Company, while eventually the present
style of the Carpenter-Yale Company was adopted. In 1892 Mr. Carpenter purchased
the interests of Mrs. Hall in the Stephen C. Hall Lumber Company and
consolidated the business with that of the Carpenter-Yale Company and, together
with the lumber business of Thomas H. Shevlin, thus organizing the
Shevlin-Carpenter Company, of which Mr. Carpenter has since been an executive,
bending his energies largely to organization, to constructive effort and to
administrative direction. Possessing broad, enlightened and liberal-minded
views, faith in himself and in the vast potentialities for development inherent
in the country's wide domain and specific needs along the distinctive line
chosen for his life work, his has been an active career in which he has
accomplished important and far-reaching results, contributing in no small degree
to the expansion and material growth of the districts in which he has operated
and from which he himself has also derived sub­stantial benefit. Having long
since placed his business upon a most firm and remuner­ative basis Mr. Carpenter
has also directed his attention in a measure into other fields, becoming one of
the directors of the First National Bank of Minneapolis, also of the Minneapolis
Trust Company and of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company.
On the 4th of June, 1890, Mr. Carpenter wedded Miss Isabell Welles, a daughter
of Edwin P. Welles, a prominent lumberman of Clinton, Iowa, who has passed away.
Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter became the parents of two children: Lawrence W., who was
graduated at Yale; and Leonard. In religious faith a Presbyterian, Mr. Carpenter
holds membership in the Westminster church, in which he has served as a trustee,
while in the various lines of church work he has taken an active and helpful
interest. The active cooperation of Mr. Carpenter in one of the most splendid of
the civic interests of Minneapolis has been a prominent factor in its success.
For years he has been president of the Orchestral Association, which was
organized in 1903 and which under a most efficient leadership has reached a
place in the first rank among the orchestras of the world. In club circles, too,
Mr. Carpenter is well known, having membership in the Minneapolis, Commercial,
Minikahda, Lafayette and Interlachen clubs of this city. The activities and
interests of his life have been evenly balanced. While he has attained a place
of prominence in connection with the lumber industry of the Northwest, he has
never allowed business so to monopolize his time and attention as to leave him
no time for cooperation in those movements which are looking to municipal
advancement, civic progress and the cultural improvement of the community. In
all these regards he has done his full share, just as he has in his business
life, and the worth of his work is widely acknowledged in every particular.