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Wingie Carpenter

b. Theodore Carpenter, 15 Apr 1898, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. day unfamiliar. While still an adolescent, Carpenter dropped an arm pursuing a major accident (John Chilton information that the doctor undertaking the amputation was the uncle of trumpeter Doc Cheatham). Carpenter later on started playing trumpet, employed in numerous …

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