- WILLIAM H. CARPENTER. This gentleman belongs to the firm
of CARPENTER &
- BALLARD, dealers in grain and coal at Evansville, Rock County,
and has long been favorably identified with the business interests
of this city.
- Mr. CARPENTER was born in Hamilton County, near Northville,
N.Y., March 22, 1843, and is
- a son of Allen D. and Mary Ann (WADSWORTH) CARPENTER, natives
of Vermont and New York respectively. Four sons and three daughters
were born to them, of whom all but one are now living; John W.,
of Janesville; William H.; Mary Ann, the wife of Alexander McKINNEY,
of Evansville; Josiah of the town of Union, Rock County; Emma
J., the wife of Edwin WINTER, of Evansville, Wisconsin in the
'fifties, locating in the town of Union, two miles east of Evansville,
where he lived until he died in 1860, at the age of forty-seven.
His widow survived until 1893, and was seventy-seven at the time
of her death. They were both Methodists. The paternal grandfather
of William H., Allen D. CARPENTER, was a native of England, and
came to this country, settling in New York, where he died at
the age of eighty; he was the father of four children. Josiah
WADSWORTH, the father of Mary Ann, mentioned above, is supposed
to have come from Ireland, and settled in Hamilton County, N.Y.,
where he followed farming, and died there an old man; he was
the father of thirteen children.
- William H. CARPENTER was reared on the paternal acres in
Hamilton County until he was
- eleven years of age. He came to Rock County that year, and
here he attained his manhood. He had his education in the district
school, and in 1864 he bought a farm of 120 acres, upon which
he made many permanent and substantial improvements, and was
engaged in its cultivation until 1882. That year he moved into
Evansville, and seventeen years later he sold the farm. He was
an active and busy man through all these years, and though there
is but little change and adventure in his career, it has been
honorable and creditable throughout.
- On Jan. 1, 1865, occurred the marriage of William H. CARPENTER
and Miss Elizabeth
- BALLARD, daughter of Gailus and Sarah (FELT) BALLARD. They
became the parents of three children, William, Cora and Grace.
William died at the age of seven. Cora is at home, and Grace
is a student at the Normal school in Milwaukee. Mr. CARPENTER
belongs to Union Lodge, No. 32, A.F. & A.M., Evansville Chapter,
No. 35, R.A.M., and is a stanch and devoted member of the order.
He is a Republican, and is highly esteemed by many friends. He
lives at No. 232 Church street, Evansville, and has been a resident
of the community forty-six years.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901, pp. 846-847.
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- Courtesy of Carol H.
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