. Genealogical notes of the Carpenter family, including the autobiography, and personal reminiscences of Dr. Seymour D. Carpenter, lieutenant colonel in the war for the union. With genealogical and biographical appendix .. . hn Van Pearce, a brother of Andrew, who had marriedMaria, daughter of David, with whose history your mother isfully acquainted. Samuel Carpenter, who built the brick house,still lived there with his mother, and flourished apace, sincehis acession to the judgeship, and on account of Emanuelsage he had become the big man of the family. He was said tohave been the best dresse
. Genealogical notes of the Carpenter family, including the autobiography, and personal reminiscences of Dr. Seymour D. Carpenter, lieutenant colonel in the war for the union. With genealogical and biographical appendix .. . hn Van Pearce, a brother of Andrew, who had marriedMaria, daughter of David, with whose history your mother isfully acquainted. Samuel Carpenter, who built the brick house,still lived there with his mother, and flourished apace, sincehis acession to the judgeship, and on account of Emanuelsage he had become the big man of the family. He was said tohave been the best dressed man in the county and rode thebest horse—a steed with a flowing mane and luxuriant in full dress and mounted, he appeared in the streets ofLancaster, the band immediately struck up Hail to the Chief,but pride always has a fall in its wake, and Samuel did notescape. Shortly after the war. Judge Charles Sherman, thefather of General William T. and Senator John Sherman, wasappointed Collector of Internal Eevenue for one of the Ohiodistricts. He had to give a large bond, and Samuel was oneof his bondsmen. All went on well until the State Banks beganto fail and the panic came on. Judge Sherman was a strictly. HON. EMANUEL CARPENTER. 111. Sheriff of Fairfield County. Ohio. 1807. Member of the Ohio Leqislature. 1813. B. 1783—D. 1818. THE CARPEXTER FAMILY. 67 honest and honorable man, but some of his deputies were notso. The revenue had been paid in the money of the StateBanks. When the}- failed, the Collector was left with theirworthless bills on his hands. He was, therefore, forced to fail,and the Government went back to his bondsmen. The suminvolved was so large that total ruin stared Samuel in the was then nearly sixty years of age, and had always lived inaffluence. By advice of friends, he had transferred his propertyto others in order that he might be in better shape to makesome compromise with the Government. But he was broken-hearted, took to his bed, an
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