Ernest Alden Carpenter was born 13 April 1876 in Byron Center, Kent County, Michigan to James Jefferson Carpenter (1844-1914, FAG Memorial# 112537201) and his second wife, Mary M. Goddard (1843-1942, FAG Memorial# 112537326). James Jefferson had no children with his first wife, Martha Bennington (1844-?), whom he had married on 21 August 1864. Some reports have E.A.'s year of birth as 1875 and some as 1877. You often see these discrepancies in genealogic research, but I am confident with the date 1876. It was the date he gave in his draft registration papers which he signed and in the best documented of his family trees.
E.A. Carpenter was a 1911 graduate of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. After he received his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree he tried to start a practice in Howe, Indiana, but after a few months gave up the idea and moved to Goshen, Indiana a scant 23 miles away. He remained in that city in that practice the remainder of his life.
After a few years on his own in the small town of Goshen, Dr. Carpenter made contact with and proposed marriage to someone he probably had known from his days at dental school in Chicago. She was Anna Maye Tyson, A.B., an Instructor in Latin and Geometry at Northwestern University. They were married 28 August 1915 and it was reported thus in the Goshen Weekly News Times on 3 September 1915 (parenthesis mine):
MARRIED IN CHICAGO. Dr. E.A. Carpenter, a well known dentist here was married Saturday to Miss Anna Maye Tyson (1880-1968, FAG Memorial #132478276) of Chicago. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Tyson (1840-1927, burial site not discovered). Dr. Carpenter came here three years ago from Chicago, and since then has built up quite a practice in Goshen.
Anna T. Carpenter as she was generally known and E.A. Carpenter had two children, Beth (short for Elizabeth) Carpenter (1917-) and Dr. George Tyson Carpenter (1919-2010, FAG Memorial# 82961347) usually known by Tyson, his middle name and his mother's maiden name. I highly recommend reading his memorial that includes his three years of military service in Germany as a Captain in the US Army Medical Corps during World War II. During the latter part of this military service, he was assigned to the military tribunal in Nuremberg, where he was in charge of the military medical staff taking care of high-profile prisoners on trial. One of Dr. Carpenter's sons, George Tyson Carpenter Jr. (1953-2009, FAG Memorial# 121792607) also became a physician.
I have been able to trace this family for 22 generations over 8 centuries to John Carpenter born before 1303 in England. The family emigrated to America by 1638 and Samuel Carpenter the 9th of 14 children was born to William and Abigail Briant Bennett Carpenter in Reheboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
The advertising side of this picture postcard has a whimsical lead-in to a serious statement that: This Is the man who put the "DENT" IN DENTISTRY By urging and practicing Prevention vs. Repair or Preventive Dentistry. Dr. Arden G. Christen in an article on this very subject has speculated that no other dental practitioner had previously used the terms "Prevention vs. Repair" or "Preventive Dentistry." My own experience would dictate that this is highly possible even probable. Dr. Carpenter then continues with a short list of other dental "work" (treatment and procedures) he is prepared to offer and contact information including telephone numbers at his office and residence.
* Christen, AG & JA, Journal of the History of Dentistry, "Dental Postcards LV," Vol. 62 , No. 1, Spring 2014, p. 41.
One other detail of this side of the postcard is what at first glance appears to be a circular date stamp (CDS) postmark for this card, but on the wrong side of the card (not the address and stamp side). However, the word GOSHEN and the date is in mirror image caused by another postcard or envelope with wet ink coming into contact with this card. An interesting transfer phenomenon that is not unknown but seldom seen.
On the address side killing was accomplished by a machine flag cancel with a dial to the left which included the time and had the date split by the state (Dial B). It was posted from Goshen, Indiana on 25 August 1916 at 4 P.M. and addressed to Mr. Orie C Carpenter (1888-1983, FAG, Memorial# 112537509), Byron Center, Michigan. Orie C Carpenter was Dr. Carpenter's youngest brother by just over 12 years.
Interestingly, with all the relatives and four siblings in Dr. Carpenter's family over generations none appear to have been dentists.
E.A. Carpenter was a 1911 graduate of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. After he received his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree he tried to start a practice in Howe, Indiana, but after a few months gave up the idea and moved to Goshen, Indiana a scant 23 miles away. He remained in that city in that practice the remainder of his life.
After a few years on his own in the small town of Goshen, Dr. Carpenter made contact with and proposed marriage to someone he probably had known from his days at dental school in Chicago. She was Anna Maye Tyson, A.B., an Instructor in Latin and Geometry at Northwestern University. They were married 28 August 1915 and it was reported thus in the Goshen Weekly News Times on 3 September 1915 (parenthesis mine):
MARRIED IN CHICAGO. Dr. E.A. Carpenter, a well known dentist here was married Saturday to Miss Anna Maye Tyson (1880-1968, FAG Memorial #132478276) of Chicago. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Tyson (1840-1927, burial site not discovered). Dr. Carpenter came here three years ago from Chicago, and since then has built up quite a practice in Goshen.
Anna T. Carpenter as she was generally known and E.A. Carpenter had two children, Beth (short for Elizabeth) Carpenter (1917-) and Dr. George Tyson Carpenter (1919-2010, FAG Memorial# 82961347) usually known by Tyson, his middle name and his mother's maiden name. I highly recommend reading his memorial that includes his three years of military service in Germany as a Captain in the US Army Medical Corps during World War II. During the latter part of this military service, he was assigned to the military tribunal in Nuremberg, where he was in charge of the military medical staff taking care of high-profile prisoners on trial. One of Dr. Carpenter's sons, George Tyson Carpenter Jr. (1953-2009, FAG Memorial# 121792607) also became a physician.
I have been able to trace this family for 22 generations over 8 centuries to John Carpenter born before 1303 in England. The family emigrated to America by 1638 and Samuel Carpenter the 9th of 14 children was born to William and Abigail Briant Bennett Carpenter in Reheboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
The advertising side of this picture postcard has a whimsical lead-in to a serious statement that: This Is the man who put the "DENT" IN DENTISTRY By urging and practicing Prevention vs. Repair or Preventive Dentistry. Dr. Arden G. Christen in an article on this very subject has speculated that no other dental practitioner had previously used the terms "Prevention vs. Repair" or "Preventive Dentistry." My own experience would dictate that this is highly possible even probable. Dr. Carpenter then continues with a short list of other dental "work" (treatment and procedures) he is prepared to offer and contact information including telephone numbers at his office and residence.
* Christen, AG & JA, Journal of the History of Dentistry, "Dental Postcards LV," Vol. 62 , No. 1, Spring 2014, p. 41.
One other detail of this side of the postcard is what at first glance appears to be a circular date stamp (CDS) postmark for this card, but on the wrong side of the card (not the address and stamp side). However, the word GOSHEN and the date is in mirror image caused by another postcard or envelope with wet ink coming into contact with this card. An interesting transfer phenomenon that is not unknown but seldom seen.
On the address side killing was accomplished by a machine flag cancel with a dial to the left which included the time and had the date split by the state (Dial B). It was posted from Goshen, Indiana on 25 August 1916 at 4 P.M. and addressed to Mr. Orie C Carpenter (1888-1983, FAG, Memorial# 112537509), Byron Center, Michigan. Orie C Carpenter was Dr. Carpenter's youngest brother by just over 12 years.
Interestingly, with all the relatives and four siblings in Dr. Carpenter's family over generations none appear to have been dentists.
Ernest Alden Carpenter was born 13 April 1876 in Byron Center, Kent County, Michigan to James Jefferson Carpenter (1844-1914, FAG Memorial# 112537201) and his second wife, Mary M. Goddard (1843-1942, FAG Memorial# 112537326). James Jefferson had no children with his first wife, Martha Bennington (1844-?), whom he had married on 21 August 1864. Some reports have E.A.'s year of birth as 1875 and some as 1877. You often see these discrepancies in genealogic research, but I am confident with the date 1876. It was the date he gave in his draft registration papers which he signed and in the best documented of his family trees.
E.A. Carpenter was a 1911 graduate of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. After he received his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree he tried to start a practice in Howe, Indiana, but after a few months gave up the idea and moved to Goshen, Indiana a scant 23 miles away. He remained in that city in that practice the remainder of his life.
After a few years on his own in the small town of Goshen, Dr. Carpenter made contact with and proposed marriage to someone he probably had known from his days at dental school in Chicago. She was Anna Maye Tyson, A.B., an Instructor in Latin and Geometry at Northwestern University. They were married 28 August 1915 and it was reported thus in the Goshen Weekly News Times on 3 September 1915 (parenthesis mine):
MARRIED IN CHICAGO. Dr. E.A. Carpenter, a well known dentist here was married Saturday to Miss Anna Maye Tyson (1880-1968, FAG Memorial #132478276) of Chicago. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Tyson (1840-1927, burial site not discovered). Dr. Carpenter came here three years ago from Chicago, and since then has built up quite a practice in Goshen.
Anna T. Carpenter as she was generally known and E.A. Carpenter had two children, Beth (short for Elizabeth) Carpenter (1917-) and Dr. George Tyson Carpenter (1919-2010, FAG Memorial# 82961347) usually known by Tyson, his middle name and his mother's maiden name. I highly recommend reading his memorial that includes his three years of military service in Germany as a Captain in the US Army Medical Corps during World War II. During the latter part of this military service, he was assigned to the military tribunal in Nuremberg, where he was in charge of the military medical staff taking care of high-profile prisoners on trial. One of Dr. Carpenter's sons, George Tyson Carpenter Jr. (1953-2009, FAG Memorial# 121792607) also became a physician.
I have been able to trace this family for 22 generations over 8 centuries to John Carpenter born before 1303 in England. The family emigrated to America by 1638 and Samuel Carpenter the 9th of 14 children was born to William and Abigail Briant Bennett Carpenter in Reheboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
The advertising side of this picture postcard has a whimsical lead-in to a serious statement that: This Is the man who put the "DENT" IN DENTISTRY By urging and practicing Prevention vs. Repair or Preventive Dentistry. Dr. Arden G. Christen in an article on this very subject has speculated that no other dental practitioner had previously used the terms "Prevention vs. Repair" or "Preventive Dentistry." My own experience would dictate that this is highly possible even probable. Dr. Carpenter then continues with a short list of other dental "work" (treatment and procedures) he is prepared to offer and contact information including telephone numbers at his office and residence.
* Christen, AG & JA, Journal of the History of Dentistry, "Dental Postcards LV," Vol. 62 , No. 1, Spring 2014, p. 41.
One other detail of this side of the postcard is what at first glance appears to be a circular date stamp (CDS) postmark for this card, but on the wrong side of the card (not the address and stamp side). However, the word GOSHEN and the date is in mirror image caused by another postcard or envelope with wet ink coming into contact with this card. An interesting transfer phenomenon that is not unknown but seldom seen.
On the address side killing was accomplished by a machine flag cancel with a dial to the left which included the time and had the date split by the state (Dial B). It was posted from Goshen, Indiana on 25 August 1916 at 4 P.M. and addressed to Mr. Orie C Carpenter (1888-1983, FAG, Memorial# 112537509), Byron Center, Michigan. Orie C Carpenter was Dr. Carpenter's youngest brother by just over 12 years.
Interestingly, with all the relatives and four siblings in Dr. Carpenter's family over generations none appear to have been dentists.
E.A. Carpenter was a 1911 graduate of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. After he received his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree he tried to start a practice in Howe, Indiana, but after a few months gave up the idea and moved to Goshen, Indiana a scant 23 miles away. He remained in that city in that practice the remainder of his life.
After a few years on his own in the small town of Goshen, Dr. Carpenter made contact with and proposed marriage to someone he probably had known from his days at dental school in Chicago. She was Anna Maye Tyson, A.B., an Instructor in Latin and Geometry at Northwestern University. They were married 28 August 1915 and it was reported thus in the Goshen Weekly News Times on 3 September 1915 (parenthesis mine):
MARRIED IN CHICAGO. Dr. E.A. Carpenter, a well known dentist here was married Saturday to Miss Anna Maye Tyson (1880-1968, FAG Memorial #132478276) of Chicago. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Tyson (1840-1927, burial site not discovered). Dr. Carpenter came here three years ago from Chicago, and since then has built up quite a practice in Goshen.
Anna T. Carpenter as she was generally known and E.A. Carpenter had two children, Beth (short for Elizabeth) Carpenter (1917-) and Dr. George Tyson Carpenter (1919-2010, FAG Memorial# 82961347) usually known by Tyson, his middle name and his mother's maiden name. I highly recommend reading his memorial that includes his three years of military service in Germany as a Captain in the US Army Medical Corps during World War II. During the latter part of this military service, he was assigned to the military tribunal in Nuremberg, where he was in charge of the military medical staff taking care of high-profile prisoners on trial. One of Dr. Carpenter's sons, George Tyson Carpenter Jr. (1953-2009, FAG Memorial# 121792607) also became a physician.
I have been able to trace this family for 22 generations over 8 centuries to John Carpenter born before 1303 in England. The family emigrated to America by 1638 and Samuel Carpenter the 9th of 14 children was born to William and Abigail Briant Bennett Carpenter in Reheboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
The advertising side of this picture postcard has a whimsical lead-in to a serious statement that: This Is the man who put the "DENT" IN DENTISTRY By urging and practicing Prevention vs. Repair or Preventive Dentistry. Dr. Arden G. Christen in an article on this very subject has speculated that no other dental practitioner had previously used the terms "Prevention vs. Repair" or "Preventive Dentistry." My own experience would dictate that this is highly possible even probable. Dr. Carpenter then continues with a short list of other dental "work" (treatment and procedures) he is prepared to offer and contact information including telephone numbers at his office and residence.
* Christen, AG & JA, Journal of the History of Dentistry, "Dental Postcards LV," Vol. 62 , No. 1, Spring 2014, p. 41.
One other detail of this side of the postcard is what at first glance appears to be a circular date stamp (CDS) postmark for this card, but on the wrong side of the card (not the address and stamp side). However, the word GOSHEN and the date is in mirror image caused by another postcard or envelope with wet ink coming into contact with this card. An interesting transfer phenomenon that is not unknown but seldom seen.
On the address side killing was accomplished by a machine flag cancel with a dial to the left which included the time and had the date split by the state (Dial B). It was posted from Goshen, Indiana on 25 August 1916 at 4 P.M. and addressed to Mr. Orie C Carpenter (1888-1983, FAG, Memorial# 112537509), Byron Center, Michigan. Orie C Carpenter was Dr. Carpenter's youngest brother by just over 12 years.
Interestingly, with all the relatives and four siblings in Dr. Carpenter's family over generations none appear to have been dentists.
