Joseph Lancaster Carpenter

Brief Life History of Joseph Lancaster

When Joseph Lancaster Carpenter was born on 11 July 1881, in Glendale, Kane, Utah, United States, his father, Erastus Snow Carpenter, was 36 and his mother, Julia Ann Van Orden, was 23. He married Jensine Antonette Jensen on 6 April 1908, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Greenlee, Arizona, United States in 1930 and Supervisorial District 2, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1940. He died on 21 December 1968, in Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Lancaster Carpenter
1881–1968
Jensine Antonette Jensen
1882–1972
Marriage: 6 April 1908
Joseph Emmett Carpenter
1910–2004

Sources (29)

  • Joseph Carpenter, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Joseph Carpenter, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1940"
  • Joseph Carpenter, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"

World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1884

Historical Boundaries 1884: Graham, Arizona Territory, United States 1909: Greenlee, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Greenlee, Arizona, United States

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

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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