“Mr. Carpenter retired in 1948 after 18 years as superintendent of the Ithaca City Water Department…. He came to work for the city in 1931. He served as a member of the Board of Public Works and was a member of the brokerage firm, MacCumber & Larkin.”

“G. D. Carpenter Dies at 77,” Ithaca Journal, January 16, 1960, 3.