Charles Thomas Carpenter (December 9, 1858, in Bedford County, Tennessee – February 22, 1945, in Montgomery County, Kansas) was a banker who was taken hostage by the Dalton Gang in their last raid, October 5, 1892, in Coffeyville, Kansas.
[4] He was schooled in a private institution at Palmetto, and attended Indiana University Bloomington, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi and graduated in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
[5] After graduation, he moved to Kansas to join his parents at Oswego, Kansas, where he first worked for his father, and then served two years as cashier of Condon Bank.
He served as president of the Coffeyville Board of Education and trustee of the Montgomery County High School at Independence, Kansas.
She was a prominent woman of Southern Kansas in religious, social and public affairs, president of the Carnegie Library of Coffeyville, and the first woman honored with a place on the school board of that city.