Louis Carpenter (judge) explained

Louis Carpenter
Birth Date:14 December 1829
Birth Place:New York, U.S.
Death Place:Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas
Death Cause:Murdered in the Lawrence Massacre
Nationality:American
Citizenship:U.S.
Known For:Lawyer, Judge
Years Active:1850 - 1863

Louis Carpenter (1829, New York  - 1863, Kansas) was a judge in Douglas County, Kansas and was the highest ranking civic member of the town of Lawrence to be murdered by Quantrill's Raiders during the Lawrence Massacre.

Douglas County Kansas

Louis Carpenter was a lawyer,[1] and was a deputy clerk of Douglas County, Kansas by June 14, 1859.[2] In late 1860 or early 1861, he became probate judge of Douglas County, the first case bearing his name as judge being recorded on February 26, 1861, and on September 29, 1862, he was chosen by the Union Party as their candidate for the office of Attorney General of Kansas.[3] He was enumerated in the 1860 federal census of the Kansas Territory as age 29, born in the state of New York.

Lawrence Massacre

Carpenter was one of the 185 to 200 men and boys killed in the Lawrence Massacre on August 21, 1863.[4] He was murdered in his home at 943 New Hampshire Street in Lawrence by members of Quantrill’s Raiders.[4] [5] A detailed account of Carpenter's life and murder in Kansas, and a photograph of him, are posted at the Douglas County Law Library website.[3]

Personal

Louis Carpenter was born December 14, 1829, in New York state.[6] His parentage is currently unknown as well as most of his life before coming to Kansas.

Louis married on October 10, 1862, at the home of his bride’s sister and brother-in-law Abigail (Barber) and Grosvenor C. Morse at Emporia, Kansas to Mary E. Barber,[5] [7] [8] who was born ca. 1838 in Massachusetts according to census records. In 1870, his widow was enumerated at Topeka, Kansas; she married second on January 5, 1871, at Emporia, Kansas to John C. Rankin, and was enumerated in Osage County, Kansas in 1900 and 1910. She was a sister of Harriet A. Barber, who never married, and Abigail Barber, who married Grosvenor C. Morse.

Further reading

Definitive biography and photograph of Judge Louis Carpenter by Kerry Altenbernd:http://www.douglascolawlibrary.org/Louis_Carpenter.html.

Notes and References

  1. 1850 U.S. Census, Kansas Territory, Douglas County, City of Lawrence, p. 33, line 15.
  2. Douglas County Genealogical Society: The Pioneer, Vol. XIII, No. 3 (Spring, 1990), p. 110.
  3. Web site: Judge Louis Carpenter. July 24, 2003. Kerry Altenbernd. Douglas County Law Library. July 11, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20161023202315/https://www.douglascolawlibrary.org/Louis_Carpenter.html. October 23, 2016.
  4. Thomas Goodrich. 1991. Bloody Dawn, The Story of the Lawrence Massacre. Kent, O.: The Kent State University Press. pp. 50, 104, 106, 113, 116, and 128.
  5. Dr. Sam Dicks: "Abigail Morse recalls living through Quantrill’s raid of Lawrence", http://www.emporia.edu/news/2001-02/july/sam1.htm, Emporia State University, 24 Jul 2001.
  6. Kerry Altenbernd: post no. 6292 to the GenForum Carpenter Family Genealogy Forum, http://genforum.genealogy.com/carpenter/messages/6292.html, 10 Dec 2002.
  7. Douglas County Genealogical Society: The Pioneer, Vol. IX, No. 3 (Spring, 1986), p. 160.
  8. Richard Cordley: A History of Lawrence, Kansas from the First Settlement to the Close of the Rebellion, Lawrence Journal Press, Lawrence, Kans., 1895, p. 241.

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