Bio of CARPENTER, John T. D.D.S. (b.1872), 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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JOHN T. CARPENTER, D.D.S. - Vol III, pg 136, 139
A leading dentist of Minneapolis is Dr. John T. Carpenter, who maintains well
appointed offices in the Hulett building. A native of Wisconsin, he was born at
Waupaca in 1872, a son of Frank E. and Nancy (Gray) Carpenter, the former a
native of Vermont and the latter of New York. Both father and mother came with
their parents to Wisconsin at an early day and located in Waupaca. For many
years Mr. Carpenter engaged in farming in Waupaca county and is now living
retired at the age of eighty years. His wife died in 1893. To their union one
son and two daughters were born, John T. Carpenter of this review being the
youngest.
In the acquirement of his early educational training John T. Carpenter attended
the grade schools and the high school at Waupaca and subsequently determined to
take up the study of dentistry. He entered the Chicago College of Dental
Surgery, from which institution he was graduated in 1896, with the D. D. S.
degree. In that same year he went to Dallas, Texas, and practiced there one
year, at the termination of which time he went to Chicago, practicing in that
city three years. In 1900 he came to Minneapolis and was associated with Rexford
& McGuirk until 1906, when he estab­lished a small office for himself in the
Hulett building. Soon his work attracted an extensive and representative
patronage and today he has four assistants. Dr. Carpenter specializes in
extracting, crown and bridge work and the consensus of public opinion places him
among the foremost dentists in the city, county and state. He well merits the
success he has achieved, for it is the result of laudable ambition, innate
ability and close application to the thing at hand. Dr. Carpenter keeps in touch
with the constant advance ever being made in the profession and he has done some
postgraduate work at the Rush Medical College in Chicago.
On the 3d of August, 1904, in Minneapolis, was celebrated the marriage of Dr.
Carpenter to Miss Cora E. Moffett, a daughter of Charles W. Moffett. The
Moffetts were among the oldest and most honored families of Minneapolis. Mrs.
Carpenter died in 1917 and besides her husband she left to survive her three
children: John, called Jack by his many friends; Betty; and Gaylord.
The Doctor has always been a strict adherent of the republican party and has
maintained an active interest in party affairs. He is a member of St. John's
Episcopal church and fraternally he is identified with the Masons, holding
membership in Ark Lodge, Ark Chapter, Minneapolis Mounted Commandery, and Zuhrah
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise a member of Lodge No. 44, of the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Along strictly professional lines he is
connected with the Orthodontist Society of Chicago and socially he is identified
with the Minneapolis Athletic Club and the Automobile Club. Dr. Carpenter finds
his greatest recreation in the out-of-doors and he is fond of all sports, being
proficient in hunting and fishing.