Windham

CARPENTER, Arthur P.

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 139

Arthur P. CARPENTER, lawyer, Brattleboro [Windham County, Vermont], was born 
31 March 1867 in Readsboro [Bennington County, Vermont], son of Solomon R. 
and Laura M. (BISHOP) CARPENTER. Educated at Castleton Normal School, 
graduate of class of 1887; Rochester Business University, Rochester [Monroe 
County], New York, class of 1890; and Boston University Law School, 
graduating with the LL. B. degree in 1897. Admitted to the Vermont Bar 1896, 
and the Massachusetts Bar 1897; admitted to practice before the United States 
circuit court, district of Massachusetts 1898, and district of Vermont 1900. 
Practiced law at North Adams [Berkshire County], MA, 1897-1905; and since 
1905 at Brattleboro.

In 1897 he [Arthur P. CARPENTER] married [Miss?] Addie L. BOYNTON of Jamaica 
[Windham County, Vermont]. Mr. CARPENTER is a Democrat. He has been 
chairman of the Democratic town committee at Brattleboro since 1906, and is a 
member of Democratic county committee of Windham County. He is a member of 
Old South Congregational Church, Boston [Suffolk County], Massachusetts; a 
member of Unity Lodge No. 89, Free & Accepted Masons, of Jacksonville 
[Windham County], and a member of Bingham Chapter No. 30, Order of Eastern 
Star, of Brattleboro.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly