French Carpenter

French Carpenter
Born	June 7, 1899 Clay County, West Virginia US
Died	May 22, 1965 (aged 65)
Genres	Old time
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Fiddle

David French Carpenter, born June 7, 1899 in Clay County, West Virginia^[1] died May 22, 1965, was a noted West Virginia mountaineer Old time fiddle player.^[2][3] He is listed by the Library of Congress as a musician on two sound recordings: Elzics Farewell, Kanawha, 1976; and Old-time music from Clay County, West Virginia, Charleston, W.Va., Folk Promotions, 1964.^[4]

References

1. This birth date is the one given in his WWI Draft Registration Card, the Social Security Death Index, and the 1900 federal census; an article in The West Virginia Encyclopedia (Ken Sullivan, ed., The West Virginia Humanities Council, Charleston, W.Va., 2006, p. 114) gives his birth date as June 7, 1905.
2. Michael Kline: "French Carpenter" in The West Virginia Encyclopedia, Ken Sullivan, ed., The West Virginia Humanities Council, Charleston, W.Va., 2006, p. 114.
3. Gerald Milnes: "The Carpenter Legacy" in Play of a Fiddle, Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., 1999, pp. 35–44.
4. Library of Congress Online Catalog search for "French Carpenter", http://catalog.loc.gov/, January 27, 2011.