This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  One of the 20th century's most important folk ar carvers, he was born in West Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania near Lititz, as the 8th child of Wayne Carpenter and Elizabeth Burkholder Carpenter. About 1910-1912 his family moved to Waverly, Virginia where his father ran a sawmill. From 1912 to 1957, Miles ran a sawmill. In 1940, he began a more than forty year career of carving hand painted creatures. His subjects were humans, animals and Biblical characters.
Ancestral information provided by John R. Carpenter of La Mesa, California.
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