Dear Jan, Here is your data on Senator Matt Carpenter. INDIVIDUAL DATA RIN:12462 - ----------------------------------------------- Name:Matthew Hale CARPENTER Sex:M ID No: Birth:22 Dec 1824 Place:Moretown,,VT Chr: Place: Marr: Spouse:Caroline DILLINGHAM-12466 Marr: Spouse: Marr: Spouse: Death:24 Feb 1881 Place:Washington,District of,Columbia Burial: Place: Father:Ira CARPENTER-12445 Mother:Esther Ann LUCE-12461 Notes --------------------------------------------------- !Number 4833 in the Carpenter Memorial on page 499. Family on page 666 (#1225). A lawyer and served in the senate in 1869. Extensive notes on pages 500 to 506. BIRTH: He was born and baptised "Merritt Hammond" but he didn't like the name so he changed it. BOOK:- GENEALOGY: Carpenter and Allied Families by Miss Annie L. Carpenter, The American Historical Society, Inc., NY, published in 1936. Page 31. He was a U.S. Senator for WI. SEE: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 2, page 512, by Allen Johnson. He is listed as a lawyer, and senator (Rep.). Much detailed information there. end notes The extensive notes describes how state secrets were being leaked and the efforts of Sen. Carpenter to stop them. He sued the New York Tribune, but the book does not say if he was successful. The leaks started about 1870 and investgations, suits and such were still going on in 1877! He was from Captain William Carpenter (b. 1605) of Rehoboth through his son Benjamin. The line went into CT then VT. After he moved to WI, he served as a lawyer. +---¦Ira CARPENTER-12445 Matthew Hale CARPENTER-12462 ¦ ¦29 Apr 1798 22 Dec 1824 --------------¦ ¦Moretown,Chittenden,VT Moretown,,VT ¦ MRIN:4371 --SPOUSE-- MRIN:437 +---¦Esther Ann LUCE-12461 Caroline DILLINGHAM-12466 ¦Abt 1798 Abt 1824 ¦ Waterbury,Washington,VT --CHILDREN-- 1-Lillian CARPENTER-22924 2-Ada CARPENTER-22925 3-Annie CARPENTER-22926 4Paul Dillingham CARPENTER-22927 If you need any more data please let me know. John R. Carpenter La Mesa, CA Gumpysfarm@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 7/27/99 9:34:15 PM Central Daylight Time, mike@netking.net > writes: > > << Hello, Jan > My name is Debra Carpenter, was wondering about the newspaper clipping? Am > still digging into my line but somewhere I have seen some of your names, > will try to find them, and send you what I have. Could you tell me about the > newspaper? > Thanks Debra >> > > The Newspaper is "The Evening News." Dated Detroit, Saturday, August 23, 1873. > It states: > "The New York Tribune, in response to the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, on the > Senator Carpenter scandal, says that the Tribune makes no charges that can > not be substantiated, and hopes that if Mr. Carpenter has been aggrieved by > anything that has appeared in its columns he will resort to his remedy at > law; and the Tribune being a journal of ample pecuniary responsibility, > whatever damage a jury of his countrymen shall say he has sustained will be > promptly paid. More than that, the Tribune will gladly pay any sum that may > be so assessed in damages to be convinced that the life and conduct of Mr. > Matt Carpenter are such as may be held up for an example, instead of a > warning to the young men of the country. For proof of that the Tribune is > willing to pay liberally. " > > In another location of the same paper: > > under "POLITICAL NOTES": > "A serious attempt is being made to kill off President Grant. The Rutland > Globe alludes to the failing health of Vice President Wilson, and his > possible death, and expresses it's horror at seeing Matt. Carpenter, as > President of the Senate, so near to the White House. The New York Tribune > has also been studying the law of decent in the case, and shows that in the > event of Grant, Wilson and Carpenter all dying the country would have to get > along without a chief magistrate till Congress meets in December. Now this > speculating on the effect of men's deaths is just the way to kill them. the > human mind is eculiar, and if the very knowledge that their decease is a > matter of discussion on every street corner is not in itself sufficient to > worry out the vital spark, there are plenty of insane Ravalliacs and Booths > in the country who would jump at the chance to gain themselves "a mission", > which the mere suggestion afforded. Three Presidents have died in office > within a quarter of a century. If we were Grant we should increase our life > insurance forthwith. By the way, Grant still lacks a week of completing the > first six months of his second term, yet the subject of his successor in 1877 > is already discussed by the topic-starved public press. etc.etc.etc... > > Kind of interesting? Now where does Matt Carpenter fit into the Carpenter > Clan? > Anybody? > Jan > Gumpysfarm@aol.com