Mount Mora Cemetery - Saint Joseph, Missouri

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Record Last Updated On: 4/9/2014
Name: STEPHEN F (DR) CARPENTER
Death Date: FEB/17/1916	Interment Date: FEB/16/1916		Birth Date: NOV/25/1845
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Brief Biography: S. F. CARPENTER, M. D., is a practicing physician and surgeon of St. Joseph and is Professor of Anatomy in the Northwestern Medical College. He was born in Luray, Page County, Va., November 25, 1845, and is a son of Lewis F., who was a native of Loudoun County of the same state. Our subject's paternal grandfather, who also bore the Christian name of Lewis, was born in Maryland, and was an extensive farmer and stock-raiser in Loudoun County, where his death occurred. He rose to the rank of captain in the War of 1812, and did vacant service for the Colonies as his father did before him. The latter was a Colonel in the War of the Revolution and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis in Yorktown. He was of English descent, early settling in Maryland. Our subject's father was a manufacturer of wagons, plows and machines of all kinds, being one of the first to manufacture the useful threshing machine. He was interested in iron mines and smelting works at Luray, where he was considered one of the leading business men. In 1854 he sold out his eastern interests and removed with his family to St. Joseph, where, for a year, he engaged in his former business of wagon and plow-making, after which he located on a farm, fourteen miles from the city in Marion Township, where he engaged in farming until he was called to his final rest March 21, 1889. He was prominent in Masonic fraternities having been Master. Our subject's mother, who was born in Page County, Va., was before her marriage Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Varner. The latter was born in the Keystone state and was of German descent, his father having emigrated from the Fatherland, becoming a farmer in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Carpenter, though seventy years of age, is still living on the old homestead. In a family of nine sons and one daughter, S. F. Carpenter is the second. His oldest brother, Capt. William H., who was in the Confederate service, is President of the Phoenix Loan & Building Association of St. Joseph. Reared in Virginia until 1854, our subject was then brought by his parents to St. Joseph, making the journey by boat a large share of the way. The country was quite wild and Indians often camped in the vicinity of the farm. He received such education as was afforded by the pioneer school of the period, and remained on his father's farm until entering the army. He enlisted in September, 1863, in Company B, Eighty-first Missouri Infantry, which was raised by General Bassett, of St. Joseph. They were employed on campaigns in the state, protecting the country from maurauders, and had occasional skirmishes until the close of 1865, when they were mustered out. Doctor Carpenter then entered Mastin's Academy at Easton, Mo., where he continued until commencing the study of medicine in 1866 under Dr. B. H. Cox, of DeKalb County. At the end of three years he entered the University of Louisville, Ky., in the Medical Department, pursuing one course and then engaging in practice for a year at Osborne, Mo. Returning to the University, he was graduated in the spring of 1871 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, engaging again in practice at Osborne until January 1, 1874, when he settled in St. Joseph, and has since *then been engaged in practice here. He has met with success and is justly counted among the best physicians of the city and county. His specialties are surgery and chronic diseases. In 1879 the Doctor was one of the organizers of and was made Professor of Chemistry in the old College of Physicians and Surgeons, which institution continued to flourish for two years only, being discontinued in 1881. He was also one of the founders of the justly famed Northwestern Medical College, which is the oldest and largest institution of the kindin this part of the state. The Doctor is a member of the Board of Directors and is Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery. During the summer of 1873 he went to Philadelphia and New York for a few months of practical experience in the celebrated hospital work of those cities. Our subject is a member of the Buchanan County Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, and of the District Medical Association of Northwestern Missouri, having been the Vice-president. In the different medical journals the articles of Doctor Carpenter have been printed from time to time, and at present he is associate editor of the Western Surgical and Medical Reporter. Politically he is a Democrat, having been active in the work of the party as a delegate to county and state conventions; was a member of the County and City Central Committee and President of the City Council for two years from the Third Ward. Fraternally he is a member of St. Joseph Lodge No. 78, of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is now Master. The pleasant home of Doctor Carpenter is on Francis street, and is presided over by his amiable wife, who was formerly Miss Fannie Nash, to whom he was married September 1, 1874, in Parkville, Platte County, Mo. Mrs. Carpenter was born in that village and is a daughter of John H. Nash, an early settler and well-known business man of that locality. Our subject and wife have one child, a daughter Annie, who is now attending the Putnam Seminary at Zanesville, Ohio. (Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Buchanan and Clinton Counties, Missouri. Publ. 1893)
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Cost of Interment: $6.00		Date Paid: 02/29/16

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