Roy R. Carpenter
Roy R. Carpenter, an attorney at law, and a resident of Steubenville, O., since January, 1909, was born in 1881 in Warren Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, and is a son of A. Pierce Carpenter, and a grandson of Andrew Carpenter, one of the pioneer settlers of the county. The father was born in 1852 in Warren Township, Jefferson County. Ohio, and has spent his entire life there engaged in general farming and stock raising.
Roy R. Carpenter is a graduate of the Mt. Pleasant High School, Oberlin Academy, and Oberlin College, from which he received the degree of A. B. in 1906, and also of the University of Michigan, from which he received the degree of L.L.B., graduating with the class of 1908. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1907, and in January, 1909, became associated with Attorney A. C. Lewis in the practice of law. Mr. Carpenter attends the Second Presbyterian Church, and is fraternally a member of the Elks.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910