Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, Henry S 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

HENRY S. CARPENTER, who was long a business man of Joliet, was born November 
23, 1825, and died March 5, 1892. He received his education in Albion Academy. 
In 1848 he came to Joliet, with the subsequent history of which he was 
identified. For a number of years he taught in the city schools, but by 
degrees he drifted into the real-estate business, buying and selling town lots 
and also dealing in farm property. In addition he had large grain interests, 
in connection with his brother, Allen P., the two being among the most 
extensive grain merchants of this section of the country. He bought in carload 
lots and exported to all parts of the world. In 1851 Mr. Carpenter married 
Miss Henrietta Spencer, a sister of Mrs. Allen P. Carpenter. They became the 
parents of three children. The only living son, Charles C., who was connected 
with his father in the grain business, is now business manager of a piano 
factory at Ottawa, Ill., and a bicycle factory at Joliet. The second son, 
George H., is deceased. The only daughter, Sarah F., is the wife of William 
Grinton, a merchant in Joliet, and with her Mrs. Carpenter makes her home.

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Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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