Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

TIBBIS CARPENTER was born in Allen County, Ky., February 14, 1853.  His 
father, Joseph D. Carpenter, was also a native Kentuckian, born in 1808, 
in what is now Allen County.  He married Mathenna, a daughter of Thomas 
Sayers, of Allen County, Ky.  She was born in 1819, and is now sixty-
seven years of age.  Joseph D. Carpenter, during his lifetime, was 
engaged in the mercantile trade; he died in 1867.  He was a son of 
Samuel E. Carpenter, of North Carolina, who came to Kentucky at an early 
day, and was one of the pioneers of Allen County, a man of considerable 
prominence; he was a representative, and also a senator in the State 
Legislature of Kentucky, and held the office of clerk of the Allen 
County Court for several years.  Tibbis Carpenter received a good common 
school education and at the age of sixteen engaged in the profession of 
teaching; after two years he entered as a student in Prof. H. C. Dunn's 
school, at Rockfield, Warren Co., Ky., from which he graduated in 1873.  
In the same year he took a situaton in a drug store in Bowling Green, 
Ky., and studied pharmacy for a time, then engaged in the drug trade at 
Scottsville, Allen County, in which trade he has continued successfully 
up to the present time (1885), and he is one of the few country 
druggists who advocated the "Registration Act," and believed that the 
law should regulate the sale of drugs and fix the standard of 
pharmaceutical knowledge.  On the 15th of October, 1879, he was united 
in marriage with Toy Spillman, daughter of T. B. Spillman, of 
Scottsville, Ky.  Effie is their only child; she was born in October, 
1880.  Mrs. Carpenter is a member of the Baptist Church.  Mr. Carpenter 
is a liberal thinker, and his religious views are based on charity to 
all and the sacred fulfillment of business obligations.  Politically he 
is a Democrat, and takes an active interest in politics  In business he 
has been uniformly successful, owing to his strict integrity.

Carpenter Dunn Sayers Spillman
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NC Warren

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