Husband Dr. Henry Carpenter, M.D. 1 2
Born: 10 Dec 1819 - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 1
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Father: Henry Carpenter (1773-1835) 2 3
Mother: Mary Ann Cook (Abt 1794-1872) 2 3
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Other Spouse: Ann Louisa Mathiot ( -1863) 1 - 1846 1
Other Spouse: Laura W. Miller ( -1871) 1
Wife Sarah A. Billings 1
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Father: Hon. Benjamin F. Billings ( - ) 1
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Other Spouse: Harris Boardman ( - ) 1
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Henry Carpenter, M.D.
He received his preliminary education in the select schools of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and at the Lancaster Academy. He read medicine with Dr. Samuel Humes, of Lancaster, was graduated at the Pennsylvania Medical College, Philadelphia, in March, 1841, and succeeded to the large practice of his preceptor, with which he became conversant as a student. Dr. Carpenter was one of the founders of the Lancaster County Medical Society in 1844, secretary of its organization for many years, and in 1855 its president. He was secretary and vice-president of the State Medical Society, and one of the board of censors for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
He was president of the Select branch of the City Councils for nearly twenty years, presiding officer of the lower branch for several years, and an active member of the Lancaster school board for some thirty years, and also a director of the Lancaster Gas Company, and of the Lancaster Insurance Company for many years. He was a director of the Conestoga Steam Mills Company for a long time, and one of the principal owners for many years after their sale, in 1857, and he was one of the company that built and owned No. 4 cotton-mill, and also one of the originators of the Conestoga Turnpike Company, in 1870, of which he was president.
Dr. Carpenter was a director of the Lancaster and Quarryville Narrow-Gauge Railroad, director and treasurer of the Delaware River and Lancaster Railroad, director and assistant treasurer of the National Railroad (later the Bound Brook), and president and director of the Hamilton Land Association of New Jersey. Twice during the Civil War he was called into active service in the volunteer surgeons' department by the surgeon-general of the State, and labored zealously to alleviate the sufferings of the sick and wounded after the battles of second Bull Run and Antietam. [HLC 1883, 250]