My Brother & Me

About the Book

The author’s lineage includes his mother’s Taylor family, which originated in England and Ireland and settled first in Pennsylvania and later in West Virginia, and his father’s Carpenter family, whose early members originated in England and settled in Rhode Island, Virginia, and then West Virginia. The two families converged in Putnam County, W.Va. This book follows the author’s maternal ancestors in many families, including Johnston, Stephens, Baldwin, Acord, Lafferty, and Lucas. It also recaps some of the genealogy presented in the earlier book, “The Way to Mt. Moriah.” The book contains numerous family stories of earlier times, photographs from the 19th century, and also the author’s accounts of growing up with his brother in the 1940s and 1950s.

About the Author

Ernest L. Carpenter began his writing career in 1966, when he joined the staff of the weekly news magazine Chemical & Engineering News, published in Washington, D.C., by the American Chemical Society. In his 34 years at the magazine, Mr. Carpenter wrote and edited hundreds of articles that involved chemical research, education, and industry. Since retiring eight years ago, he has concentrated on his family’s genealogy and this is his second book on that subject. His first book was “The Way to Mt. Moriah,” published by Xlibris last year. Mr. Carpenter received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., in 1964.