Biographies:  Horace CARPENTER, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Horace Carpenter, deceased, a veteran of the Civil War and a highly 
respected man of Eau Claire, was born in Holland, Vermont, July 8, 1834, 
and was descended from New England ancestors who came from England in the 
ship Bevis in 1638, and settled at Rehoboth, Massachusetts.  Early in 
life he went to Plattsburg, New York, where he lived until he reached 
the age of twenty-two, then came to Wisconsin, and was one of the 
pioneers of Eau Claire, having settled here in 1856.  Soon after his 
arrival in the village, he engaged in the services of the Northwestern 
Lumber Company, whose plant was then located at Porter's Mills.  When 
the Civil War broke out, he enlisted as a private and was assigned to 
Company G, First Minnesota heavy artillery, and served two years.  At 
the expiration of his service, he returned to Eau Claire and for one year 
was engaged in farming on Truax prairie.  He then moved into the city and 
opened a grocery store, a business he successfully carried on for twenty-
five years.  He was a man of irreproachable habits and pure character, 
as well as honorable and ambitious, and enjoyed the friendship of all 
with whom he came in contact.  He was a member of Eau Claire Lodge, No. 
112, A. F. & A. M., and of Eagle Post, No. 52, Grand Army of the Republic.  
His death occurred on June 2, 1906, and was mourned by a large circle of 
friends.

Mr. Carpenter married Miss Marietta Van Hoesen, of Durand, Wis., but 
formerly of Great Bend, Jefferson county, New York, and they had four 
children, Cora E., who is now and has been for a number of years, 
supervisor of drawing in the public schools of Eau Claire; William J., 
manager of the Cutter Shoe Factory; Emma, who died at the age of twenty, 
and one child who died in infancy.

Mrs. Carpenter and family are prominent in social affairs of the city, 
and all are affiliated with the Lake St. Methodist Episcopal church.


--Transcribed from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present", 
pages 668 & 669

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