Robert C. Carpenter

CARPENTER, MOORE, THURMAN, GRIFFEN

Posted By: Marthann Kohl-Fuhs (email)
Date: 3/24/2009 at 15:29:09

ROBERT C. CARPENTER is a native of the State of Kentucky, born in Bath County, near Owensville, June 12,1824. Levi Carpenter, his father, was a native of the same State, and a son of Michael Carpenter, of German ancestry, who was among the early settlers of Kentucky. Susan (Moore) Carpenter, mother of Robert C., was born in Kentucky, and is a daughter of Robert Moore, also a native of Kentucky. Levi Carpenter was for many years a resident of Kentucky, but removed from Bath County to Morgan County, Indiana, and resided there until he went to Poweshiek County, Iowa, where he died in 1870. His wife survived him until 1882. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom are living. Robert C. Carpenter passed the greater part of his youth in Morgan County, Indiana. He received such advantages as were afforded by the common schools of that day. He remained with his parents until his twenty first year, when he began farming in Morgan County on his own account. In 1851 he bade farewell to the Hoosier State and emigrated to Poweshiek County, Iowa, which was at that time considered the frontier. There he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1868. Since that time he has been engaged in the law and general farming, which he pursued until 1878, when he removed to Audubon County. He first settled in Viola Township, two miles west of the farm which he now owns. He remained there two years, and at the end of that time he moved to his present farm on section 15. He has eighty acres of as choice land as Audubon County affords. The place is well improved and is one of the neatest little farms in that part of the county. In 1846 Mr. Carpenter was united in marriage to Miss Mahala Thurman, a second cousin to Allen Thurman, of Ohio. Mrs. Carpenter was born in Highland County, Ohio, December 22, 1822, and removed with her parents to Morgan County, Indiana, when a young girl. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter have had born to them nine children Frank M., John C., Levi T., Mary, wife of Harlin Griffen; Robert M., Malissa Ann, Sarah C., Anderson C. and Dora. Mr. Carpenter has served as justice of the peace over thirty years, and has held many other township offices, always acquitting himself honorably and with much credit. He has also served as county supervisor for four years. Politically he gives his undivided support to the issues of the Democratic party. He is a member of La Fayette Lodge, No. 52, A. F. & A. M. He is also notary public.

1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

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