Louis George Carpenter

Louis George Carpenter (March 28, 1861 – September 12, 1935), was a college Professor and later the Dean of Engineering & Physics at Colorado State University formerly known as the Colorado Agricultural College. He was also a mathematician and an irrigation and consulting engineer. Family Louis George Carpenter was born on March 28, 1861, the son of Charles Ketchum Carpenter and Jeanette Coryelle Carpenter. His siblings included two notable brothers, Professor Rolla C. Carpenter of Cornell University and jurist William L. Carpenter. He married Mrs. Mary Jane Cliff Merrell (a librarian at Michigan State Agricultural College—now Michigan State University—and the second woman graduate from the college) in 1887 in Michigan. They had a son and daughter before she died in 1921. He remarried in 1922 to Katherine M. Warren. Carpenter died in Denver, Colorado on September 12, 1935. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Lake Orion, Oakland County, Michigan.