What's in a Name?
Farrington "Ferry" Carpenter is a name that still provokes reverence 26 years after his death at the ripe age of 94. Ferry emerged from Harvard law in 1912. By 1913, Ferry had opened his law practice in Hayden and signed on the town as a client for $100 per year. He served in the U.S. army in 1917-18 as a lieutenant, but the Armistice came before he shipped out. Carpenter's signature battle drew national headlines when he grappled with FDR’s Interior Secretary, Harold Ickes, over national vs. local control of the range.