Minnie Lindsay Carpenter (12 December 1873 – 23 November 1960), née Rowell, was an Australian writer and an officer in The Salvation Army in Australia.
She also helped establish the Salvation Army International Nursing Fellowship and served as World President of the Home League.
According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, she was born on 12 December 1873 in Bombira, near Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia, the daughter and fifth child of Nicholas and Sarah Rowell.
[1] The Historical Dictionary of the Salvation Army states that Minnie was born in 1874 in Bridgenorth, Shropshire, England, and that her father was a farmer who died when she was a child.
Her mother, Sarah Rowell, worked as a teacher; after her husband's death, she emigrated to Australia, settling in Mudgee, New South Wales.
[5] The Salvation Army allows both women and men to become officers, which is a full-time ministry role similar to that of ordained clergy in other Christian denominations.
Recognized for her writing and editing skills, Minnie Carpenter was appointed assistant editor of The Officer, a Salvation Army publication.
In 1933, they moved to Buenos Aires, where George Carpenter took up the post of territorial commander for South America, and in 1937, they migrated to Canada.
She helped establish the Salvation Army's International Nursing Fellowship in 1943,[2] and served as world president of the Home League.