Carpenter, Mark

Carpenter, Mark a Baptist minister, was born at Guilford, Vt., Sept. 23,1802. He pursued his studies in part at Amherst College, and graduated at Union College in 1829, and from the Newton Institution in 1833. He was ordained at Milford, N.H., Feb. 12, 1834, and six years afterwards accepted a call to Keene, remaining there about five years. He was pastor from 1846 to 1850 at New London, N.H.; from 1851 to 1861 at Holyoke, Mass.; at Brattleboro, Vt., from 1861 to .1867; at West Dummerston, from 1867 to 1869; South Windham, from 1869 to 1874, whence he removed to Townshend, and died there, Nov. 13, 1882. He was one of the oldest and best-known ministers in the state of Vermont. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. p. 185. (J. C. S.)