Carpenter, William Jefferson^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]}

1861 - 1925  (63 years)

• Name	Carpenter, William Jefferson  [12]
  	VARIANT NAME: Carpenter, J. William.
  Birth	6 Aug 1861	USA   [12, 13]
  Gender	Male
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1890	Telluride, CO
  	Address: CO USA
  	Mautz (1997) lists him as active in Silverton, CO, in 1889.
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	Before 1897	Great Falls, MT
  	According to the Great Falls Daily Tribune (25 Apr 1904, p. 5), he had resided in Great Falls and worked as a photographer with C.E. Lemunyon.
  Business Address/Year	1899	Greenwood, BC
  Business Address/Year	1897-1903	Rossland, BC
  	Sometimes shown as W. and sometimes as E. Columbia Ave.
  	Address: 26 1/2 Columbia Ave. Rossland, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1900-1903	Rossland, BC
  	Address: St. Paul N. Rossland, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	1905-1909	Spokane, WA
  	Address: Spokane, WA USA
  Business Address/Year	1909-1913	Vancouver, BC
  	Operated as the Carpenter Studio, 1911-1913
  	Address: 303 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC Canada
  Home Address/Year	1910-1913	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 303 Hastings W. St. Vancouver, BC Canada
  Death	17 Apr 1925	Port Angeles, WA   [14]
  Burial	Ocean View Cemetery, Port Angeles, WA   [13]
  Association	Carpenter and Company (Relationship: Owner)
  Association	Carpenter and Millar (Relationship: Partner)
  Association	Carpenter Studio (Relationship: Proprietor)
  Person ID	I294	Camera Workers | C, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	24 Apr 2023

  
  

• Photos		W.J. Carpenter's photo identification on a panoramic print, lower left corner, 1908 or 1909. City of Vancouver Archives reference code AM54-S4-: PAN P92.3.
  		Carpenter and Company commemorative portrait, 1899. Depicts the face of a drift following an explosion in the War Eagle Mine, Rossland, 23 Jun 1899, along with a portrait of the sole survivor, Charlie Coulson.

  
  

  Documents

  W.J. Carpenter and C.E. Lemunyon news, Great Falls Daily Tribune, 25 Apr 1904, p. 5. The article notes that Carpenter had resided in Great Falls, MT, and worked with Lemunyon.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Established in Rossland in 1896 or 1897 as Carpenter and Millar, the partnership dissolved about 1899 and Carpenter ran the business as Carpenter and Company. He worked out of Spokane between at least 1905 and 1908, then moved to Vancouver and remained there until 1913. His studio in Vancouver was also known as the Carpenter Studio. The 1901 Canada census, which enumerates him as J. William Carpenter, indicates he immigrated to Canada in 1897. He was married and had a daughter (Ethel) and a son (Ernest). His religion was Baptist and his occupation was as a photographer. IDENTIFYING MARKS: "W.J. Carpenter, Telluride, Colo." on print surface; "Photograph by W.J. Carpenter, Spokane, Wash." on print surface; "Photograph by W.J. Carpenter, Spokane Wash Copyright Canada 1909 by Wm. J. Carpenter Vancouver B.C. & Spokane, Wash." on print surface; "W.J. Carpenter Vancouver, B.C." on print surface. FORMATS: Panoramic. REFERENCES: HEN97; WIL97; HEN98; WIL99; HEN99; HEN00; HEN01; HEN02; HEN03; Boundary Museum (Grand Forks, BC); emails, R. Boulet to Mattison, 2012.

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] COLLECTION: BGFBM. [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. [S45] COLLECTION: BVAA. Prints [S699] COLLECTION: COHS. (album, "The J.W. [sic] Carpenter album of Western Slope photography" and prints) [S791] HENVAN09, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1909). Vancouver: not listed [S698] HENVAN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910), 609. Vancouver: Carpenter W J photogr 303 Hastings W lvs same [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910), 1134. Vancouver: Carpenter W J photographer 301 1/2 [i.e. 303] Hastings W [S795] HENVAN11, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1911), 549. Vancouver: Carpenter W J mgr The Carpenter Studio 303 Hastings W [S797] HENVAN12, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1912), 638. Vancouver: Carpenter W J photo 303 Hastings W [S746] HENVAN13, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1913), 687. Vancouver: Carpenter W J prop Carpenter Photo Studio r 303 Hastings W [S747] HENVAN14, (Vancouver: Henderson Directory Co., 1914). Vancouver: not listed [S647] Census of Canada 1901. Province of BC, District no. 5 Yale & Cariboo, Sub-district no. H, Polling sub-division no. 3 in Rossland City, page 11, line 20. [S832] Find a Grave (Web site). URL (accessed 12 Feb 2017): https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Carpenter&GSiman=1&GScnty=2957&GRid=11560862& [S667] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch.org (Web site). "Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960"; URL (accessed 12 FEeb 2017): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3GP-JS3