HENRY W. CARPENTER, merchant and physician, Lancaster; son of Paul and Mary (Cannon) Carpenter.  He was born at Lancaster, Sept. 1, 1835.  Dr. Paul Carpenter was for more than fifty years a medical practitioner in Lancaster.  He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1810, and graduated at the Medical College of Ohio.  In 1828 he came to Lancaster, Ohio, and after remaining there three years began to practice his profession.  He died in October, 1880.  Henry W., received a liberal education under the tutorship of Dr. Williams, in Lancaster, following which he was a student at Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, completing his education at the Ohio Wesleyan University, graduating from there in 1856.  He then read medicine in his father's office for some years, and entered the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, graduating from that institution in 1859.  He was then engaged in practice until 1862, when he was appointed First Assistant Surgeon to the Ninetieth O. V. I.; subsequently he was detailed to take the medical supervision of General Palmer's division of the Second Army Corps.  He was afterward Medical Purveyor to the same corps.  At the battle of Stone River he was in charge of the hospital, where he was repeatedly captured, but escaped in each case with all his supplies.  In May, 1863, he accepted the position of Acting Assisting Surgeon in the U. S. A., and was in active service at Nashville, Lookout Mountain, and was in charge of the hospital at Jeffersonville, Indiana.  Afterwards he was connected with the Thirteenth Ohio Cavalry, as Assistant Surgeon, filling the same position with the One Hundred and Eighty-seventh O. V. I., for one year.  While with that regiment at Macon, he was detailed to accompany Miss Barton on her mission to identify the bodies and place head-boards at the graves of Union soldiers at Andersonville, Georgia.  Mr. Carpenter continued in the service until 1866.  Returning to civil life, he has since been engaged in successful mercantile pursuits, also filling the position of U. S. Assessor for one year.  He is an influential member of the Masonic Order, and Knights of Honor, as well as the Grand Army of the Republic.  He was married in 1860 to Miss Kate Clark.
Source:  History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Publ. Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co., 1883 - Page 285

COLONEL JOHN M. CONNELL, deceased.  He was born Nov. 7, 1828, in Lancaster; son of Benjamin and Mariah (McNeil) Connell.  His paternal ancestry is Irish, his maternal Scotch-Irish.  Young Connell, having chosen the law as a profession, on completing his reading, went to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and was admitted to practice there, in June 1850.  In 1851 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the eighth Judicial District of Indiana.  In 1855 returned to this State and located for a short time at Wooster, after which he returned to his native city.  In 1857 he was appointed chief clerk in the office of the Comptroller, at Washington, District of Columbia.  On his return he resumed the practice of the law, which he followed until May 13, 1861, when enlisted and was elected Colonel of the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  At the close of the three months' service the Colonel reorganized the regiment and re-enlisted, in September, of same year, and remained in the field until November, 1863, when he resigned to take a seat in the State Senate, to which he had been elected by his constituents of the Ninth Senatorial District.  The Colonel was married Sept. 27, 1853, to Miss Jennie, daughter of Rev. William Cox and Margaret (daughter of General Reson Beall, of Wooster, Ohio.)  The Colonel was the father of eight children, viz.:  William, Frank, Medill, John, McNeill, Ellen, Jane and Margaret.  In 1866 he was appointed United States Internal Revenue Assessor, which he held until 1869, since which time he followed his profession until his death, Apr. 17, 1882.
Source:  History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Publ. Chicago - W. H. Beers & Co., 1883 - Page 288