GENEALOGY OF CARPENTER FAMILY IN MONT VERNON NH

Information from a web site "History & Genealogy of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire"
located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/HillsboroughCo/Montvernon/

Source: HISTORY of the TOWN of MONT VERNON, New Hampshire;
Blanchard Printing Co., Boston, Mass. 1907

Disclaimer: We are not responsible for typographical errors, nor do we claim 
that these genealogies are accurate.

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CARPENTER

Rev. Charles C. Carpenter was b. at Bernardston, Mass. July 9, 1836. His father
was Dr. Elijah W. Carpenter, a physician of that town. Mr. Carpenter fitted for
college at Williston Seminary, Mass., and at Kimball Union Academy, NH. He
studied at Andover, and was ordained to the ministry at Montreal in 1860. He was
in the service of the Canada Foreign Missionary Society, principally in
Caribou Ilsand, Labrador, from 1858 to 1867. In 1866 he was appointed financial
superintendent of Robert College, Lookout Mt., Tenn [TN], where he remained until
1872. In 1875 he became pastor of a church at South Peabody, Mass., resigning
in 1880 to accept a call to a less arduous charge at Mont Vernon. The honorary
degree of A.M. was conferred upon Mr. Carpenter by Hamilton College, New York.
In 1885 he removed to Andover, Mass.  Mr. Carpenter performed his work here
with energy and fidelity, so diligently and thoroughly that the impress long
abided.  He was a beloved pastor. He now (1902) preaches occasionally, and is
editor of a department in the "Congregationalist."  He is a man of antiquarian
tastes, and is extensively and accurately informed in many lines. He m.
May 1, 1862, Feronia Rice, of Auburn, Mass.  Children:
1. George Rice, b. Labrador, Oct 25, 1863, graduated Harvard University,
1886, now Prof. Rhetoric, Columbia University, m. Mary Seymour, has one daughter.
2. Charles Lincoln, b. June 17, 1867, a graduate and post-graduate of
Scientific School, Dartmouth College, 1888, m. Catherine F. Sullivan of
Charlestown, Mass., one child.
3. William, b. Feb 9, 1869, studied at Amherst three years, graduated Harvard
University, 1890, m. Catherine Hoyt of Newfane, Vt.  Sub-Master High School,
Woonsocket, R.I.  One son.
4. Miriam Feronia, b. Mont Vernon, Sept. 21, 1881.


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