Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, Jacob 1843 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Jacob Carpenter, farmer, Veedersburg, was born in 1843, native of Fountain
county; is son of Benjamin H. and Sophia (Strader) Carpenter. They both are
natives of Ohio, and emigrated to Fountain county in 1825, where they have since
lived. They raised a family of five children, four boys and one daughter, and
what is remarkable, their birthdays, all but one, come in the same month of the
year. He and his wife are long-time members of the New Light Christians. Till
1856 he was a democrat; since that time he has been a radical republican. When
he came to this country he possessed a very meager supply of this world's goods,
beyond energy, and a firm determination to make his own success; the result of
which is that he has a fine farm and comfortable home, in the northeast part of
Van Buren township, where he still pursues his favorite vocation, farming. Jacob
Carpenter is the only one of his brothers now resident of Van Buren township. He
was married in 1864, to Sarah J. Reed, native of Fountain county. In 1875 she
died, aged twenty-nine years, leaving one child, Mary E. He was married a second
time, in 1878, to Laurence Fole, native of Fountain county, by whom he has one
child, Byron. His wife is a member of the Christian church at Veedersburg. In
politics he is a republican of the first rank. Jacob Carpenter began life with
such preparation as he was able to get on the farm of his father, and in the log
school-house of his neighborhood, and a good degree of business judgment and
plenty of energy. He has a fine farm of 286 acres of well-improved land, well
stocked with a good grade of farm stock of all kinds.

Additional Comments:

Van Buren Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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