Biographical Sketch of Judge Lewis F. Carpenter, Marion Township, 
Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Judge Lewis F. Carpenter, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, January
21, 1818.  His father, Matthew Carpenter, was a representative man in
that country.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and a descendant of
some of the earliest settlers of the Old Dominion.  His mother's maiden
name was Harriet Benson.  She was of French descent.  Lewis F. was the
eldest of a family of eight children, and was raised in his native
county, where he received such education as was attainable in that
day and county.  At the age of seventeen, he went to Front Royal in
Warren County, Virginia, where he spent seven years learning the wagon
making trade.  On September 28, 1843, he married Miss Elizabeth Varner,
a native of Page County, Virginia.  In the fall of 1854, he left for 
the West, and on the 9th of November of the same year arrived in St.
Joseph, where he remained until the following spring, when he purchased
254 acres of land in the northeast corner of the county.  Of this he 
has made one of the best improved farms in the county.  Few men have
contributed more materially to the growth and development of the same.
In politics he is a Democrat, having voted that ticket since 1840,
when he cast his first vote of President Van Buren.  He has raised a
family of ten children, nine sons and one daughter: William H., Dr.
Stephen F., a representative physician of St. Joseph; Daniel E., a
farmer of Andrew County; Thomas J. and Robert S., residents of St. 
Joseph; John A., Franklin P., Eddie, Burr H. and Mary E. Carpenter.
In the fall of 1880, Lewis F. Carpenter was elected Judge of the County
Court of Buchanan County and bears the reputation of a capable and a
popular official.

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