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Transcribed from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history,
embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns,
prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal
history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. :
front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed
December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansas State
Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3. Charles T.
Carpenter, of Coffeyville, Kan., is the son of Samuel and Sarah (Montgomery)
Carpenter, the former of whom was a native of Bedford county, Tennessee, born in
1827, and the latter was born in Charleston, S. C., a daughter of Thomas
Montgomery, who was a large slave owner and well-to-do planter. He left Charleston
when a young man and located at Palmetto, Tenn. The Montgomerys were of
Scotch-Irish extraction and came to America in the Eighteenth century. The first
American immigrant of the Carpenter family came to American from London, England,
in 1630, and located at Rehoboth, in Bristol county, Massachusetts. His name
was William Carpenter, and upon his migration to America he was accompanied by
his three sons, from whom over 2,000 of the family name now in America have
descended. Samuel Carpenter, the father of Charles T., came to Kansas in 1874
and located at Oswego, where he engaged in the mercantile business and resided
until his death, which occurred in 1903, the last fifteen years of his life
being spent in retirement. His father, Peter Carpenter, was a native of North
Carolina and by occupation was a farmer. He was a Union man in sentiment and was
compelled to leave the South on account of his political views. He went to
Iowa, in which state he died some time during the Civil war. Of the union of
Samuel and Sarah (Montgomery) Carpenter there were born six children—three sons
and three daughters—and they are all living at this writing, Charles T. being
the third child and second son in the order of birth. Charles T. Carpenter was
born at Palmetto, Bedford county, Tennessee, Dec. 9, 1858. He received his
education in the schools of his native town, in the old academy at Palmetto, and
at Indiana University, where he graduated in 1876. He then came to Oswego,
Kan., and was with his father in the mercantile business for six years, at the end
of which period he engaged in the banking business at Oswego. He began his
career in this endeavor as a bookkeeper, but later became cashier of the C. M.
London Bank, in which position he remained until 1886, when he removed to
Coffeyville and became one of the organizers of the London National Bank, of which
he was elected vice-president, a position he has held up to the present time.
At the beginning this institution was organized as a private bank, but it
later became a state bank, and in 1903 was reorganized under the national banking
laws. There has been no change in the personnel of the officers, however, as
at the time of the original organization C. M. Condon was elected president,
Mr. Carpenter vice-president, and Charles M. Ball cashier, and they have
continued incumbents of the respective positions. The bank has a capital stock of
$100,000, with a surplus of $50,000. This bank and the First National Bank of
Coffeyville the Dalton bandits undertook to rob on Oct. 5, 1892. The attempt was
unsuccessful, but four citizens and four of the bandits were killed. Three
bandits undertook to rob the London bank, and all of them were killed. Mr.
Carpenter was on duty in the bank at the time. In addition to his interest in this
concern Mr. Carpenter has other investments that demand a portion of his
attention, among which is the largest insurance agency in the county. Mr. Carpenter
is a Republican. He has never had any aspiration for political honors,
preferring to devote his entire time and attention to his business, in which he
occupies a prominent and well deserved position. However, he has taken considerable
interest in the prohibition movement in Kansas. He takes quite an interest in
fraternal societies, is a Royal Arch Mason, and has membership in other
fraternal and insurance organizations. He has been a resident of Kansas for
thirty-five years, and, as will be seen by the foregoing, has been prominently
identified with its interests. In 1892 he was married to Miss Temple West, daughter
of Joshua West, of Rockford, Ind., and of this union have been born five sons
and two daughters—Walter, Samuel, Charles, Hugh, Marjorie, William, and Sarah.
Pages 252-253 from volume III, part 1 of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state
history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns,
prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected
personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. :
front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed
December 2002 by Carolyn Ward. This volume is identified at the Kansas State
Historical Society as microfilm LM195. It is a two-part volume 3.