High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dudley Newcomb Carpenter (June 28, 1874 – March 26, 1955) was a U.S. Naval officer and Doctor who participated in the Spanish-American War of 1898, and served through World War I and World War II. He established the first hospitals at Baguio, Philippines, Bas Obispo, Mexico and at Bremerton, Washington. He was also a writer.