Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, George W 1826 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co IL 1882

George W. Carpenter, grain, Verona, is a native of West Greenwich, R. I.; he 
was born April 15, 1826, son of Amos and Mary (Bailey) Carpenter, he being the 
sixth of a family of nine children. When he was about six years old, his 
father moved to Eastern Connecticut, where George W. was raised and educated. 
In 1854, he came West and settled in Grundy County, Ill.; bought 160 acres of 
land in Section 9, of Mazon Township, where he lived twelve years, and then 
moved to Morris, where he engaged in the implement and grain business. He 
remained there in business until 1878, when he came to Verona and engaged in 
the grain trade, which he still carries on. He shipped, in 1880, 153,638 
bushels of corn. He was married first, in 1854, to Miss Sarah Underwood, born 
in Woodstock, Conn., in 1830, who died while on a visit at Binghamton, N. Y., 
in 1878. They had three children, one of whom is dead - Ella A., born in 
Grundy County, April, 1857, married in 1876 to Mr. A. H. Gage, of New York; 
Mary B., born in 1861, died in 1863; and Mary Lilian, born December 26, 1866. 
He married in March, 1881, Mrs. Rebecca Murphy, formerly of Ohio. They have a 
farm of eighty acres of improved land in Section 12, of Vienna, worth $55 per 
acre. He is a Republican, and has frequently been elected to the offices of 
his township. He has an elevator and a nice residence in the village of Verona.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers, p140

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