Bio of Carpenter, George W. (b.1832) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Carpenter, George W., farmer and thresher, was next to the oldest of a
family of four boys and four girls, born to T. P. and Emeline (Webster)
Carpenter. He was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1832. While a
small child he was adopted into the family of his grandfather Webster, and
lived with him on a farm near Warrentown, Pennsylvania, where he attended
country school winters till 1846. In the spring of this year he
accompanied his grandfather to McHenry county, Illinois, and soon found a
home, a well-to-do farmer by the name of Pliny Hayward, attending school
winters and working on the farm summers. January 1, 1855, he espoused Miss
Lucy J. Judd, a native of Connecticut. In the spring of 1856 he came to
Wabasha county, and located on a quarter-section in Plainview; this farm
he cleared and improved, and sold in 1866. He did not engage in business
again until September, 1870, when he purchased eighty acres on section 35
in Highland, where he now has a comfortable home. He is widely known among
the farmers as a thresher, being the first man who ran a threshing-machine
in Greenwood prairie. He is a member of the Methodist church, and also of
the Plainview lodge of Odd-Fellows. Mr. Carpenter has been twice married.
By his first wife he had three children: Oscar E., a farmer in Big Stone
county, Minnesota; Clara A. and Willie H., both living at home. His second
wife was the relict of the late George Clark, of Highland, to whom he was
married January 27, 1878. Mrs. Clark had at the time of her second
marriage two children, namely, Willie F. Clark and Lucy A. Clark.
War of Rebellion (Civil War)