Hamilton County, Ohio, lawyer, commissioner of deeds, and soldier. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, native. Son of Emanuel Carpenter and Sarah Stevens Carpenter. Married to Louisa Carmen Carpenter in Hamilton County, Ohio, on October 1, 1846. Father of Ernest Carpenter, Edwin James Carpenter, Charles S. Carpenter, Samuel Warner Carpenter, Sarah Carmen Louise Carpenter, Frank Giles Carpenter, John H. Carpenter, and Elizabeth Carpenter. Graduate of Franklin College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Attorney in Hamilton County, Ohio in 1850. Attorney in Hamilton County in 1860. Employed Norah Gorman and Mary O'Neal as domestic servants in Hamilton County in 1860. Commissioner of deeds for the state Kentucky in Hamilton County in 1861. Served in the 39th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from July 14, 1861 to January 7, 1862.