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The life of Joseph Allen Carpenter
Biography
Joseph Allen Carpenter was the husband of Bessie Wilson Peck and father of artist Joseph A. Carpenter Jr. His son’s obituary names both parents.
A town history of Rehoboth, in southeastern Massachusetts, describes a Joseph Allen Carpenter, born in 1880, who graduated from Taunton High School in nearby Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1900, taught at the Stevens School during 1900–1901, and then worked for the Narragansett Milling Company, first as a bookkeeper and from 1914 as an auditor. This is a probable identification.
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A life in dates
4 events
- Probable Education Record
A Rehoboth history records a Joseph Allen Carpenter, probably this man, graduating from Taunton High School in 1900.
Taunton
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The same probable identification taught at Stevens School during 1900–1901.
- Probable Employment Record
The probable Joseph Allen Carpenter identification became an auditor at Narragansett Milling Company in 1914 after earlier bookkeeping work.
- Connection to this place
Probable family home — Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
Rehoboth, Massachusetts, United States
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Notes & sources
Family records
- Carpenter Cousins — Joseph Allen Carpenter and Bessie Wilson Peck
- DNA consolidated biography and timeline evidence and decisions
- History of Rehoboth — Joseph Allen Carpenter
- Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642–1896
- Joseph A. Carpenter obituary — J. H. Williams & Co. Funeral Home
- Remembering Joe Carpenter: An Artist Who Loved Rehoboth