Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, Daniel 1830 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Daniel Carpenter, farmer and tile manufacturer, Hillsboro, was the eldest
child of Benjamin H. and Sophia (Strader) Carpenter. About 1828 or 1829 his
parents removed from Butler county, Ohio, to Fountain county, and settled in Van
Buren township in which his father is still living. Here Mr. Carpenter was born
on March 2, 1830. He has always been engaged in improving and cultivating land.
On January 1, 1854, he was married to Sarah Angeline Meeker by whom he had the
following children: Emily Jane, born March 30, 1855, died in infancy; John
Franklin, April 15, 1856; Jacob Oliver, March 12, 1858, died March 27, 1873;
Florence Maria, August 19, 1860; Henry Edwin, September 23, 1862; Martha Adella,
August 9, 1864. His wife dying in March 1868, he married again, April 4, 1869,
Miss Elizabeth Death, daughter of John C. Death, an early settler in Van Buren
township. She was born June 14, 1837. They have four children: Monroe, born
January 12, 1870; Mary Ellen, December 16. 1871; Daniel Wesley, August 11, 1873;
and Rosanna Edith, November 29, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter own altogether 575
acres of choice land. The last four years he has been manufacturing drain tile,
the annual product of which has amounted to $3,000. Mr. Carpenter was a democrat
until 1856, when he joined the republicans and voted for Col. Fremont. His
great-grandfather Strader was a soldier of the revolution.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

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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