James McFadden Carpenter and Mary H. Knox

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Husband James McFadden Carpenter ^{1 2}

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           Born: 30 Jan 1850 - Murrysville, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: Jeremiah Murry Carpenter (1818-Aft 1889) 4 5 6
         Mother: Eleanor McFadden (      -1869) 3 5 7

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       Marriage: 21 Jun 1876 2 8

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Wife Mary H. Knox ^{2 8}

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         Father: John L. L. Knox (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Rebekah H. [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Alice Lazear Carpenter ⁹

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2 F Rebekah Knox Carpenter ^{8 9}

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           Born: Abt 1878
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Bertha Eleanor Carpenter ⁹

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4 M James McFadden Carpenter ⁹

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General Notes: Husband - James McFadden Carpenter

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He was reared on a farm in Plum township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and attended the common schools. Between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one he was a student in the Murrysville Academy at intervals, and taught school during four terms. In 1872 he came to Pittsburgh, where he practiced surveying and engineering with James H. McRoberts, and studied law, first with Hopkins & Lazear, then with Thomas C. Lazear, of the same firm. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1874, and engaged in practice.

The family removed to Plum township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1852, where he received his primary education in the common schools, from which he passed to the academy at Murrysville known as Laird Institute. While studying for his profession he engaged in farming, teaching and surveying, and in October, 1874, became a member of the Pittsburg bar, after which time he was in active practice. His professional experience lay especially along the lines of mining and oil interests, and he was known as a concise and forcible speaker. In early life he was a Democrat, but was always independent of merely party considerations. Beginning in 1896 he was somewhat active in politics, was one of the organizers of the "Gold Democracy" and was a member of the convention that nominated Palmer and Buckner. For himself he never sought election to any office. He was one of the trustees of Western Theological Seminary, and a member of the Union Club of Pittsburgh. Since 1881 he was ruling elder in the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, during all of which time he served as clerk of session.

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 554, 667.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 217.

3 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 554.

4 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 667.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 94.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1381.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1382.

8 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 555.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 218.