Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

JOHN S. CARPENTER was born July 8, 1855, on the banks of Long Creek, 
Allen County, Ky., and is a son of Benjamin and Jane (Orr) Caprenter, 
with whom he remained until eleven years of age, when he entered Erskine 
College, South Carolina, from which he graduated in the spring of 1874; 
after which he commenced the study of law with G. M. Mullian, graduated 
from law school at Cincinnati in the spring of 1876; after which he 
spent four years traveling through the States and Territories of the 
West and Southwest.  In 1880 he returned to Allen County and located at 
Scottsville, where he engated in the practice of law, with marked 
success.  January 8, 1882, he married Miss Purvis M. Hall, of 
Hartsville, Tenn., daughter of T. M. P. and Margaret (Pursley) Hall, who 
were born in Virginia and Trousdale County, Tenn.  Her father, an 
extensive farmer, owned from fifty to 100 negroes; he was bought to 
Tennessee by his parents, Richard and --- (Perkins) Hall, when a child 
six months old.  The grandfather, Richard Hall, and wife were born and 
reared near Lynchburg, Va., and emigrated to Tennessee about 1817, where 
he was successfully engaged in farming.  Since his marriage, Mr. 
Carpenter has been practicing law and trading.  In 1884 he and wife 
spent the summer in Wichita and Wellington, Kas. He is the owner of 700 
acres of well improved land, where he is now residing temporarily, eight 
miles east of Scottsville, Ky.  He also owns 160 acres in Kansas, which 
he has mostly procured by his own industry; his wife also owns ninety-
four acres near Hartsville, Tenn.  Mr. Carpenter is a young man of rare 
attainments and is one of the most progressive men in Allen County.  In 
politics he is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for S. 
J. Tilden.

Caprenter Hall Mulligan Orr Perkins Pursley
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OH TN VA SC Trousdale-TN KS 


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