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Dr James Allen Carpenter

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Dr James Allen Carpenter

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9 Mar 1954 (aged 81)
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New Hope, Madison County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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James Allen attended public school in New Hope, He entered Medical School in Mobile Alabama & then Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee, He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree in 1895. He began practicing medicine the following year, traveling by horseback to visit his patients with medicines & surgical instruments in saddle bags. In the bags were Quinine, Calomel, Castor Oil and a medicinal compound called Peptolac, manufactured by a company in which Dr. Carpenter owned stock.

James Allen is listed on the 1900 census reports as one of three male boarders living in the home of Henry & Elizabeth Nichols & their daughter Nancy.

James Allen married Jimmie Obera Butler April 24,1901. Her father was a partner in Butler Brothers Store, a thriving business which allowed them to accumulate a lot of land.
With the inheritance she received and the inheritance James received from his father they became prosperous farm owners during the time James Allen was becomming an established, reputable physician. Eventually he was joined by his son Dr. James Lauler in the practice of medicine.

James & Jimmie's children,
1. George Butler - born 9-11-1902-3-14-1920
2. Laura Jane - born -1-5-1904
3. Thomas Edward - born 10-10-1905 - 5-18-1917- drowned
4. Infant daughter (born 1907 died 1908)
5. James Lauler - born - 8-22-1909-3-16-1974
6. Robert Allen - born -12-24-1910-1975

Jimmie died Jan 1911 shortly after Allen was born.

James married Margaret "Maggie" Ivey January 20,1914.

Their children,

7. Infant son died at birth 1915
8. Infant son died 4-26-1916
9. Lawrence Franklin "Frank" - 1917
10. David Earl - 1920
11. Margaret Obera - 1921




James Allen attended public school in New Hope, He entered Medical School in Mobile Alabama & then Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee, He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree in 1895. He began practicing medicine the following year, traveling by horseback to visit his patients with medicines & surgical instruments in saddle bags. In the bags were Quinine, Calomel, Castor Oil and a medicinal compound called Peptolac, manufactured by a company in which Dr. Carpenter owned stock.

James Allen is listed on the 1900 census reports as one of three male boarders living in the home of Henry & Elizabeth Nichols & their daughter Nancy.

James Allen married Jimmie Obera Butler April 24,1901. Her father was a partner in Butler Brothers Store, a thriving business which allowed them to accumulate a lot of land.
With the inheritance she received and the inheritance James received from his father they became prosperous farm owners during the time James Allen was becomming an established, reputable physician. Eventually he was joined by his son Dr. James Lauler in the practice of medicine.

James & Jimmie's children,
1. George Butler - born 9-11-1902-3-14-1920
2. Laura Jane - born -1-5-1904
3. Thomas Edward - born 10-10-1905 - 5-18-1917- drowned
4. Infant daughter (born 1907 died 1908)
5. James Lauler - born - 8-22-1909-3-16-1974
6. Robert Allen - born -12-24-1910-1975

Jimmie died Jan 1911 shortly after Allen was born.

James married Margaret "Maggie" Ivey January 20,1914.

Their children,

7. Infant son died at birth 1915
8. Infant son died 4-26-1916
9. Lawrence Franklin "Frank" - 1917
10. David Earl - 1920
11. Margaret Obera - 1921




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