The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 152 A portrait of Dr. William T. Carpenter appears in this publication. WILLIAM T. CARPENTER, M. D. Dr. William T. Carpenter, who engages in the general practice of medicine in Toppenish but specializes in surgery and the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, was born in North Carolina in 1868, a son of George and D. D. (Woodward) Carpenter. The father devoted his life to the occupation of farming in order to provide for his family and was thus engaged to the time of his demise. His widow still resides in North Carolina. Doctor Carpenter acquired his early education in the schools of his native state and supplemented the public school course by study in Albemarle Academy. He afterward entered the Southern College of Pharmacy, at Atlanta, Georgia, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897, and he is also a graduate of the Southern College of Medicine and Surgery of the class of 1898. Having thus qualified for onerous professional duties, he located for practice in South Carolina but afterward gave up professional labor and traveled over the west. He located ultimately at San Francisco, California, but did not practice there. In 1907 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago for a further course in medicine and was graduated with the class of 1910 from this institution, which is the medical department of the University of Illinois. Doctor Carpenter in 1908-9 was assistant in the medical department of the University of Chicago under Professor Santee in histological work in neurology. For two years he was assistant to Professor H. O. White in anatomy in the University of Illinois, and also for two years assisted John M. Lang, M. D., in his clinic in the University of Illinois in gynecology and also assisted Walter C. Jones, professor of surgical pathology in the University of Illinois, for two years. Following his graduation in 1910, he removed to the northwest, settling at Spokane. Later he was located for a time at Ellensburg, Washington, and he afterward pursued post-graduate work in the Chicago Eye, Ear, Lose and Throat Hospital in 1917. In the same year he opened an office in Toppenish, where he has since remained, and although he continues in the general practice of medicine, he specializes in surgical cases and in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He is splendidly qualified along these lines and his efforts are productive of excellent results. Doctor Carpenter has complete, and in every way, up-to-date equipment, including an X-ray machine to facilitate his professional labors. His ability is acknowledged by his colleagues and contemporaries in the profession and he is at all times keenly interested in everything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life. In 1903 Dr. Carpenter was married to Miss Mary F. Heaton, of Spangle, Washington, and they now have an interesting little daughter, Vivian Flavilla. Doctor Carpenter belongs to the Masonic fraternity, also to Elks Lodge No. 1102, at Ellensburg, Washington, to the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America. He has membership in the Toppenish Commercial Club and is interested in everything pertaining to the welfare and progress of his community. Along strictly professional lines his connections are with the Yakima County Medical Society, the Washington State Medical Society and the American Medical Association and thus he keeps in close touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress. He reads broadly, thinks deeply and is constantly promoting his ability through study and today occupies a creditable position among the medical practitioners of his section of the state. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.