Biography of Andrew J. Carpenter, page 224.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920. 

   Andrew J. Carpenter.  A long life and a busy one has been the record in 
brief of Andrew J. Carpenter, one of the highly esteemed residents of 
Franklin Township, DeKalb County. He has lived nearly three-quarter of a 
century and is now enjoying a comfortable retirement.  For about half a 
century he followed the trade and business of flour milling, and he also has 
owned and operated farms.  He is living today on his farm in Franklin 
Township, near Hamilton.
   Mr. Carpenter was born at Ponitac, Michigan, June 28, 1845, a son of 
Joshua and Mary (Church) Carpenter. Both the Church and Carpenter families 
were early settlers around Pontiac, Michigan, and acquired large tracts of 
land.  Joshua Carpenter was born in New York State and his wife in Vermont.  
He was a stock man and also conducted a meat market at Pontiac.  He died at 
the age of forty.  He was a stanch republican in politics and he and his 
wife were active in church. Of their five children, Andrew J. is the only 
one living.
   He spent his boyhood days on his father’s farm near Pontiac and was 
very much of a youth when he volunteered and joined the Union army.  After 
the war he returned to Pontiac and learned the miller’s trade.  He 
followed that occupation with some intervals until a comparatively recent 
date.  Mr. Carpenter has owned and operated several grist mills, owning 
the one at Hamilton, Indiana.  He was head miller in several large mills 
at Topeka and also owned a mill at Edon, Ohio.
   June 1, 1874, Mr. Carpenter married Mrs. Margaret R. (Fee) Taylor, 
widow of Jasper S. Taylor.  Her first husband died February 19, 1869, 
leaving two children: Belle, wife of Theodore Hunt, of Franklin Township; 
and John S. Taylor, who lives on his farm four miles south of Egerton, 
Indiana.  Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter have two sons: Frank W, who was born 
September 25, 1876, and Riley R., born December 3, 1878.  Both sons are 
now married and are well known residents of Franklin Township.  The family 
are active members of the United Brethren Church, and Frank W. is 
superintendent of the Sunday school of his home church.  The sons are also 
affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Carpenter is a republican in 
politics.  He is one of the directors of the Arctic Livestock Association.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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