a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Derby, Vt., July 4,1839. He was a precocious youth; secured for himself a private collegiate education; removed to Springfield, Ill., at the age of seventeen; taught school, and prepared to study law, but, on experiencing religion, in 1858, became an earnest Christian worker; received license to preach, and in the same year entered the Illinois Conference. His appointments were Exeter, Petersburg, Carrollton, Beardstown, Hillsborough, and Stapp’s Chapel, Decatur; in 1870 he received a transfer to the Indiana Conference, wherein he was stationed three years at Trinity, Evansville; was transferred to the Virginia Conference in 1873 and appointed to Fourth Street, Wheeling; and in 1874 was transferred to the Baltimore Conference, in which he was stationed for three successive years as pastor of Grace Church; in 1877 and 1878 of Exeter Street Church, and in 1879 of Jackson Square Church, Baltimore, where he died suddenly, Nov. 20,1879. Mr. Carpenter’s pulpit ministrations always attracted a throng of admiring listeners. He was passionately fond of study, a brilliant orator, and an advanced thinker. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1880. p. 15. <\/p>\n
Carpenter, Lucien Bonaparte a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Derby, Vt., July 4,1839. He was a precocious youth; secured for himself a private collegiate education; removed to Springfield, Ill., at the age of seventeen; taught school, and prepared to study law, but, on experiencing religion, in 1858, became an earnest Christian worker; received license … Continue reading “Carpenter, Lucien Bonaparte”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}