. 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 .. . family. The father ofGabriel, and Dr. Paul Carpenter, had recently died, and thelatter had to make a visit to Lancaster, Pa., to assist in settlinghis estate. He persuaded my father to accompany him. Myfather was only six months old, when the family had left the oldhome in Pennsylvania, and was anxious to visit the place wherethe family had lived for a hundred years. Dr. P
. 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 .. . family. The father ofGabriel, and Dr. Paul Carpenter, had recently died, and thelatter had to make a visit to Lancaster, Pa., to assist in settlinghis estate. He persuaded my father to accompany him. Myfather was only six months old, when the family had left the oldhome in Pennsylvania, and was anxious to visit the place wherethe family had lived for a hundred years. Dr. Paul had a wifeand two children, whom he wanted to take with him, and myfather decided to take my mother, and sister Mary, aged fouryears, and my brother Brough, aged two. Pauls children wereabout the same age. They employed Sam Rudolph, who had afour-horse stage, for the journey. Leaving Lancaster in July,after driving thirteen days, they reached the old homestead ofChristian Carpenter, Pauls father, where they remained aboutthree weeks, visiting their relatives. But the great event of the time was in riding fromLancaster, Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia on a mothers description of that trip, and especially. Dr. PAUL CARPENTER, Lancaster, 1810, Lancaster, 1880, Lancaster, Ohio. SEYMOUR D. CARPENTER. 85 that of passing through a- tunnel, was to us chiklren, mostthrilling. Their return journey took fourteen days. Such atrip was very unusual in those days, almost the only people whowent east were the merchants, who made yearly, or half yearlyvisits, to Philadelphia to buy goods, and the cattle-men, withdroves of stock, to Baltimore and Philadelphia. So our travellerswere looked up to as quite exceptional people, who had astanding subject of conversation which lasted for years. THE PRESIDEXTIAL CAMPAIGX OF 1840. The next year, 1840, made a strong impresssion on my was the time of the great campaign of Tippecanoe andTyler too. The entire populat
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