BIOGRAPHIES:  Charles Carr CARPENTER, Stockholm, Pepin Co., WI

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Charles Carr Carpenter (deceased) was born in Newburg, N. Y., April
26, 1827, and died in Stockholm, Wis., September 27, 1882.  His
ancestors were living at Newburg when Gen. Washington made that place
his headquarters.  His parents, Wilkins and Millicent (Watkins)
Carpenter, had three children; Phoebe Ann (Mrs. C. Wood), the subject
of this sketch, and Verdine E., who died in the service of his country
during the Rebellion.  While Charles was still a small boy his father
died, and his mother afterward married Nathan Lockwood, by whom she
also had three children:  Submit (Mrs. H. Brewer), Samuel and George,
now a practicing physician at Rome, Wis.  In 1846 the family removed to
Jefferson county, Wis., settling first in Concord and later at Rome,
where Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood died a few years since.  Charles C.
received a fair education for those times, and learned the trade of a
weaver in a factory at Newburg.  In 1855 he came to Stockholm and
purchased 160 acres of wild land, and began to make improvements
thereon.  He was married at Concord, Wis., July 24, 1860, to Miss
Martha Jane Quiner.  Her parents, Henry and Charlotte (Tucker) Quiner,
were old settlers in Jefferson county, Wis.  Mr. Quiner was a native of
Boston.  His mother, then an infant, occupied a cradle in a house into
which several shots were fired at the battle of Bunker Hill.

Soon after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter took up their abode
at the farm in Stockholm, where they became the parents of fourteen
children, twelve of whom are still living, namely:  William Augustus
(deceased), Joseph Q., Lettie Jane, Nancy C., Martha E. (deceased),
Millicent Ann, Charles Carr (who now carries on the homestead farm),
Emma B., Etta M., Martha J., Caroline M. and Emeline M. (twins), and
Thomas Quiner and George Lockwood, also twins.  Mr. Carpenter spent the
remainder of his life in the improvement and cultivation of the farm,
where most of the family still reside.  He was a republican in
politics, and served as townsmen as school clerk, supervisor and
justice of the peace.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the
Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 685.


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