CARPENTER, James Hamilton 1815-1894
CARPENTER, PATTERSON, SCROGGY, ALLEN, LUTES
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 5/16/2013 at 19:00:10
[Waterloo Daily Courier, Thursday, February 8, 1894, Waterloo, Iowa]
Death of James H. Carpenter.
At 2 a. m. today occurred the death of James H. Carpenter at^his residence in Orange Township, of paralysis, aged 79 years. Funeral services will take place at First M. E. church, in this city, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Biographical sketch tomorrow.
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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Saturday, February 10, 1894, Waterloo, Iowa]
Obituary of James H. Carpenter.
James Hamilton Carpenter was born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 15, 1815, and was brought up in Washington Co., Pennsylvania. He was converted and became a member of the Methodist church at the age of 18 and has been an earnest and loyal adherent ever since, serving as class leader many years.
He married Ann Scroggy in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1840, and his aged wife survives him. Subsequently, he spent ten years in Pittsburgh working at his trade as wood turner. In 1854 he came to Dubuque Co. and settled on a farm near Colesburg. In 1865 he came to Blackhawk Co., settling on the farm where he died, making it, by his intelligent and active industry, one of the finest and most productive places in the county.
Thanksgiving day he sustained a fall that precipitated an attack of typhoid fever, from which he recovered, notwithstanding his feebleness and age. But Sunday morning last, just as he was kneeling for prayer in the customary family devotions, he was seized with paralysis that culminated in his death last Thursday morning.
Mr. Carpenter was a man of superior industry, integrity and purity. His influence for good was extensive in every community in which he lived, and was most marked upon his own family, his children and children's children, many of whom survive him, and are honorable and useful members of society. His children are William, ex-mayor of Des Moines, and now custodian of the Capitol building; Daniel, a prosperous farmer in the western part of the State; Israel, who made his home with his parents; Mrs. Elizabeth Allen and Mrs, Esther Lutes, living in Nebraska.
Brief services were held at the home yesterday noon for the comfort of the aged and feeble wife, and also at First M. E. church in the afternoon. Four grandsons, noble looking young men, sons of Wm. L, Carpenter, bore the remains into the church upon their shoulders. A number of sympathizing friends, large in view of the inclement weather, gathered to honor the memory of this grand old man and early settler—truly one of God's noblemen.
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Additional notes from "History of Black Hawk County, 1904"James H. Carpenter was born September 15, 1815, a son of Peter and Catherine (Patterson) Carpenter. Under his maternal grandfather, James Patterson, he learned the turner's trade, at which he worked until he moved to Iowa, in 1854, after which his life was mainly devoted to agriculture.
On October 22, 1940, he married Ann Scroggy, who was born July 6, 1815, in Burlington County, New Jersey, a daughter of Job R. and Elizabeth (Dalton) Scroggy.
Mr. Carpenter had eight children, as follows: William L., a veteran of the Civil War; James Samson, who died in 1851; Catherine, deceased; Elizabeth, wife of A. A. Allen; David Hawkins; Esther L., deceased, wife of E. A. Lutes; and Abram and Isreal (twins), the former of whom died at the age of three months and three days.
His death took place February 8, 1894.
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