Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, James 1844 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   JAMES CARPENTER, a prosperous merchant at Lyons, and a descendent of one of
the pioneer families of Greene County, was born in the township where he yet
resides in 1844. He is one of three surviving children in a family of nine born
to John and Mahala (Simmons) Carpenter, both of whom were natives of Indiana and
who located in Greene County as early as 1826, participating in all the
hardships and inconveniences of pioneer life. John Carpenter departed this life
in 1861, and his widow in 1874. James passed his youth and early manhood on the
home farm and attending the public schools. He began clerking, after farming for
himself for some time, but in 1876 embarked in merchandising at Lyons with F. M.
Gilbert as partner. At the end of about four years, he became the firm's
successor. At present he has a partner, and they carry a well-assorted stock
amounting to over §5.000. Besides his interest in this property, Mr. Carpenter
ovvns forty acres of land and several town lots in Lyons. He is a Democrat in
political sentiment and is one of the county's best citizens. In 1880, he was
united in marriage with Miss Allie Hornbeck.

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Washingnton Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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