Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . its establishment and is now President of thatbody. He was a Representative from his nativetown in the General Assembly for seven vears from1883 to 1890, and has served as State Senator since CARPENTER, Phanuel Bishop, physician, wasborn in Seekonk, Mass., January 8, 1832, son of Joband Eliza (Bishop) Carpenter. He is the de-scendant of William Carpenter, one of threebrothers, who left England on account of the perse-cution of the Quakers,
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . its establishment and is now President of thatbody. He was a Representative from his nativetown in the General Assembly for seven vears from1883 to 1890, and has served as State Senator since CARPENTER, Phanuel Bishop, physician, wasborn in Seekonk, Mass., January 8, 1832, son of Joband Eliza (Bishop) Carpenter. He is the de-scendant of William Carpenter, one of threebrothers, who left England on account of the perse-cution of the Quakers, and settled in Weymouth,Mass., in 1838. His son William settled in Reho-both, now Seekonk, in 1645, where he was townclerk and delegate to the Plymouth General descendants occupied prominent positions intown affairs and took part in the Colonial and Rev-olutionary wars. Dr. Carpenter received his earlyeducation in the public schools and took a coursein Worcester Academy. He began self-support atan early age, and was four years in the dry-goodsbusiness. For six years he conducted a boot andshoe business in Providence and Pawtucket, and for. p. B. CARPENTER. five years was engaged in the manufacture of his active business life he was pursuinga system of self-education with a view to the adop-tion of the medical profession, and in 1868 he com-menced the regular study of medicine in the office /, MEN OF PROGRESS. of Dr. George D. Wilcox of Providence where he re-mained for two years. He entered Harvard Medi-cal College in 1870 and took a course of study inthe Eclectic Medical College of New York, and acourse in the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsyl-vania, graduating from the latter in 1872. From1872 to the present time he has been in activepractice in Providence. He has been a member oithe Rhode Island Homoeopathic Medical Societyfor twenty-two years. He is a member of UnionLodge, No. 10, A. F. & A. M., of Pawtucket, R. I.;Unity Lodge, I. O. O. F.; Mazepp
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