Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Allen County.
TIBBIS CARPENTER was born in Allen County, Ky.,
February 14, 1853. His father, Joseph D. Carpenter, was also a native
Kentuckian, born in 1808, in what is now Allen County. He married
Mathenna, a daughter of Thomas Sayers, of Allen County, Ky. She was
born
in 1819, and is now sixty-seven years of age. Joseph D. Carpenter,
during his lifetime, was engaged in the mercantile trade; he died in
1867. He was a son of Samuel E. Carpenter, of North Carolina, who came
to Kentucky at an early day, and was one of the pioneers of Allen
County, a man of considerable prominence; he was a representative, and
also a senator in the State Legislature of Kentucky, and held the office
of clerk of the Allen County Court for several years. Tibbis Carpenter
received a good common school education and at the age of sixteen
engaged in the profession of
teaching; after two years he entered as a student in Prof. H. C. Dunn's
school, at Rockfield, Warren Co., Ky., from which he graduated in 1873.
In the same year he took a situation in a drug store in Bowling Green,
Ky., and studied pharmacy for a time, then engaged in the drug trade at
Scottsville, Allen County, in which trade he has continued successfully
up to the present time (1885), and he is one of the few country
druggists who advocated the "Registration Act," and believed that the
law should regulate the sale of drugs and fix the standard of
pharmaceutical knowledge. On the 15th of October, 1879, he was united
in marriage with Toy Spillman, daughter of T. B. Spillman, of
Scottsville, Ky. Effie is their only child; she was born in October,
1880. Mrs. Carpenter is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Carpenter
is a liberal thinker, and his religious views are
based on charity to all and the sacred fulfillment of business
obligations.
Politically he is a Democrat, and takes an active interest in politics
In business he has been uniformly successful, owing to his strict
integrity.