Robert Nathan Carper

CARPER, HITE, PUDEPBAUGH, TURNEY, WILCOX

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Date: 3/24/2009 at 15:33:32

ROBERT NATHAN CARPER, of Leroy Township, Audubon County, Iowa, was born in Berkeley County, near Martinsburgh, West Virginia, August 26, 1847. He is a son of Samuel and Margaret (Hite) Carper, who emigrated from Virginia to Iowa in 1856. They settled at Mount Pleasant, Henry County, where Robert N. passed his youth. At the age of eighteen he went to Warren County, Iowa; here he broke out two new farms for Andrew Pudepbaugh. He remained there nine years, and during this time was married to Miss Laura Turney, of Henry County, Iowa, December 8, 1868; she is a daughter of Daniel and Lilah (Wilcox) Turney. After their marriage they settled on a farm near Lacona, where they resided until the fall of 1877. They then came to Audubon, and Mr. Carper bought a farm of 120 acres, which he improved and sold; he then bought 160 acres, which he improved and disposed of; he then purchased his present farm of eighty acres, which is all well improved. He has erected a substantial residence. He has made a specialty since coming to this farm of buying horses and fitting them for market. He also gives special attention to breeding Clydesdale horses, and all of his livestock are of high grades. Mr. and Mrs. Carper are the parents of eight children Fannie, Maggie, Frank, James A., Burel, Alvin B., Robert Ingersol and Emma. Mr. Carper has served as school director, but in political matters is somewhat conservative; he affiliates with the Republican party. Mr. Carper commenced life without any capital excepting that with which nature had endowed him; he has employed this to the best advantage, and has accumulated a comfortable fortune.

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

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