Brief Life History of William J
When William J Carpenter was born in August 1857, in Michigan, United States, his father, Martin Van Buren Carpenter, was 21 and his mother, Martha Graham, was 21. He married Anna J Blount on 3 January 1876, in Wheatland, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Clear Creek Township, Stafford, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Farmington Township, Stafford, Kansas, United States in 1900. He died on 28 May 1903, in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 45.
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Sources (8)
- William Carpenter, "United States Census, 1870"
- William J Carpenter, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940"
- William J Carpenter in entry for Fred Thomas Carpenter, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Stafford, Kansas, United States* *From 1875-1879, large parts of the county were given to Barton and Pratt counties and then mostly returned to Stafford
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (southern): occupational name for a worker in wood, Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Zimmermann , French Charpentier , Italian Carpentieri , or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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