Career
He moved to Whitley County, Kentucky shortly after the American Civil War from neighboring Claiborne County, Tennessee. Carpenter practiced medicine in Whitley County, Bell County, Kentucky, and Knox County, Kentucky from about 1868 into the early 1900s. His ancestry is uncertain, but he may have been the son of Yelverton Carpenter and Hannah Allen and born in Tennessee.
The town of Carpenter, Kentucky was named after him.
He was the postmaster and town doctor. He was born in Born in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States of America to Yelberton Carpenter and Hannah Allen.Ensley married Edy Allie Grantum and had a child.
