Carpenter, Oscar O. MD

CARPENTER, RUDY, HOWE

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Date: 8/21/2009 at 12:04:01

Carpenter, Oscar O. M.D.

Although not yet in the full zenith of his powers, Dr. Oscar O. Carpenter, of Sully, Jasper County, has won a wide reputation in the medical profession and has shown what a man of careful mental training, honesty of purpose and an abundance of zeal and persistence can accomplish, although many obstacles beset his way. He is naturally endowed with the capacities of the successful practitioner of medicine, at least this would be inferred, judging from the eminent success he has attained. Moreover, he possesses genuine love for his work and regards it as a privilege to carry comfort and aid to the sick and suffering.

Doctor Carpenter was born in Adams County, Illinois, February 4, 1867, the son of Louis C. and Sarah (Rudy) Carpenter, the father born in Ohio in 1837 and the mother in Illinois in 1845. The father was a physician and he practiced in Schuyler County, Illinois, from 1870 to 1878, then he moved to Galesburg, Jasper County, Iowa, where he continued to practice until 1908, when, after a most successful and useful career, he retired and moved to Pella, Iowa, where he still resides. He was a practitioner of the old school and was always greatly beloved by his patients and acquaintances. He was educated at the medical school at Keokuk, Iowa, and at St. Joseph.

Dr. Oscar O. Carpenter, of this review, is the youngest of a family of three sons, all doctors, his brothers being Frank, who is practicing medicine at Pella, Iowa, and Fred, a doctor at Reasnor, this County. The fact that the father and three sons are doctors would indicate that the Carpenter family has a natural bent in this line of endeavor. The subject was educated in the public schools of Galesburg, Iowa, later went to school at Shenandoah, attending the Western Normal College to within a few months of graduation, then he began teaching, which he continued several years and although he made a pronounced success in this line of endeavor he abandoned the school room and went to Des Moines, where he took a course in pharmacy in Drake University, and was graduated from the same in 1891; continuing in the medical department there, he was graduated from that in 1894. Thus well equipped for his life work, he began practicing medicine in Des Moines, which he continued for four years, then came to Reasnor, Jasper County, where he continued in the practice three years. Moving to Sully in 1902, he has continued to the present time, having acquired a very large practice, possibly as large as that of any physician in this or adjoining counties. He is kept almost constantly on the move, and maintains two teams of horses and an automobile. He has had wonderful success as a general practitioner, and, notwithstanding the fact that he has been very busy with his numerous patients he has always kept well abreast of the times in all that pertains to his profession, never ceasing to be a student. He has a well-equipped office, supplied with such modern surgical instruments and appliances, as his needs require. Doctor Carpenter is a member of the Jasper County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias. On November 1, 1904, the Doctor was united in marriage with Arletta Howe, who was born in Grinnell, Iowa, the daughter of John Howe, who came to Iowa from England in 1870 and here spent the rest of his life, becoming well established and well known, his death occurring on May 11, 1900. One child, Mary Doris, was born to the Doctor and wife, whose birth occurred on March 1, 1908. Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa B. F. Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912 Page 1290