Rev. George Carpenter
Rev. George Carpenter, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Washington, was born May 9, 1826, near "Carpenter's Mills" on the Olentangy River, Delaware County. His father, Nathan Carpenter, was born in New York, but in 1801, when eleven years of age, the family immigrated to this state, and settled in Delaware County.
In 1811, he was married to Miss Electa Case, whose father's family came originally from New Haven, Connecticut, with the " Worthington colony," in 1803. They had eleven children, three sons and eight daughters.
When the subject of this sketch was eleven years old, his father removed to a farm near Worthington, Franklin County, and his youth was spent in alternately working the farm and attending school. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, in 1851, and in his theological course at Cincinnati, in 1853. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Columbus at Kingstown, Ross County, in the same church where he afterwards ministered as pastor. He served for several months the churches of Tarlton and Amanda; but being laid aside b} sickness for a year, afterwards accepted a call to Kingston, where he was ordained and installed pastor October, 1855 ; he remained there twelve years, when he received and accepted an invitation to Washington where he is still pastor.
Mr. Carpenter was marriod August 10, 1852, to Matilda, daughter of Eev. James Gilruth of Davenport, Iowa ; but formerly a pioneer in this state of the Methodist Church. They have seven children, of whom two daughters—the oldest and the youngest—have been called to their rest : Hattie Gilruth, aged twenty-one, and baby Maud, only five months. The eldest son, Willard Bryant, is married and is a practicing physician in Columbus, Ohio. Two sons, George Haywood and Charles Ivynett, and two daughters, Mary, Lisle and Alice Boone are still at home.
Mr. Carpenter has always been prominent in Christian and temperance work. His wife was one of the leaders in the memorable " crusade" against the rumseller.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County