City: Knoxville<\/p>\n
CARPENTER, Daniel A.<\/strong>, President Knoxville Brick Co.; born Rockcastle Co., Ky;, March 24, 1837; English descent; son of William S. and Malinda (Merryman) CARPENTER<\/strong>; father’s occupation, machinist and blacksmith; paternal grandparents, James P. and Susan (Taylor) CARPENTER<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, Allen A. and Elizabeth (Bybee) MERRYMAN<\/strong>; received common school education; began his business career as a salesman in a small country store in 1852; went to Camp Dick Robertson, Ky., in Aug. 1861 with other East Tennesseans and founded the second Tenn. Infantry, and became Major of same in 1862; was placed under fire of the Federal guns while they were shelling Charleston, S.C., being held as a prisoner of war at the time; married Sophia A. BERRY<\/strong>, June 23, 1863; member of Master Lodge No. 244, 1867, Pearl Chapter No. 24, Knoxville, 1867, Couer de Lion Commandary No. 9 Knoxville, 1867; Democrat; elected Sheriff of Anderson Co., in 1866, was appointed U.S. Internal Revenue Assessor by President Johnson in 1867; Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., 1876-7; U.S. Pension Agent under Pres. Cleveland; has engaged during the last 40 years in merchandising, wholesale and retail; also interested in Coal and Iron, and real estate, and engaged in railroad building; now engaged in the manufacturing of building brick and farming and stock raising, principally cattle; was delegate to the Baltimore Democratic Convention 1872 and voted for Horace Greely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Knoxville CARPENTER, Daniel A., President Knoxville Brick Co.; born Rockcastle Co., Ky;, March 24, 1837; English descent; son of William S. and Malinda (Merryman) CARPENTER; father’s occupation, machinist and blacksmith; paternal grandparents, James P. and Susan (Taylor) CARPENTER, maternal grandparents, Allen A. and Elizabeth (Bybee) MERRYMAN; received common school education; began his business career […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,276,4407,4419],"tags":[888,2179,342,2178,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-4840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anderson","7":"category-knox","8":"category-surname-c","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-berry","11":"tag-bybee","12":"tag-carpenter","13":"tag-merryman","14":"tag-taylor","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14848,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/14848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}