Philo Carpenter

Born in Massachusetts, he married Sarah Bridges but a month later she passed away. Carpenter came to Chicago in 1832 and opened the settlement's first drug store in a log cabin on what is now Lake Street. He made enough money in two years to afford to return to the East and get remarried to his fiancée. They had seven children together.

Philo and Ann Carpenter's arrival in Chicago was a small turning point in the area's history, because they came into town in a fancy carriage. This was the first pleasure vehicle to arrive in Chicago, and the Carpenters' trip in such a carriage demonstrated that the area was safe from Indian attacks.

Carpenter invested heavily in real estate in the area surrounding what is now LaSalle Street and Wacker Drive, but the Panic of 1837 wiped him out, and his creditors took all of the land he had purchased. The area would be worth over $200 million today.

His pharmaceutical business soon allowed him to become financially solvent again. A religious man, he organized the Home Sunday School of the First Presbyterian Church. He as an elder in this church until the Civil War, when members of the congregation split over whether to support the North or the South.

He then organized a new church, the First Congregational, and became deacon. Carpenter also was a member of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and was managing director of the Chicago Bible Society.

The aftermath of the fire of 1871 saw Carpenter in another leadership role as he organized the Relief and Aid Society. He also was a member of the school board and of the board of health, and was a crusader for temperance reform.

Carpenter Street at 1032 West in Chicago is named for Philo Carpenter, [cite book | last = Bike | first = William S. | title = Streets of the Near West Side | publisher = ACTA Publications | location = Chicago | date = 1996 | page = 24] as well as the public elementary school located on Erie Street at Racine Avenue. The first school to bear his name was built in 1868 on the same site, to the east of the present school which opened in 1957.

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