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A general historical sketch of the Chippewa valley: ancestral records of leading families; biographies of representative citizens, past and present and portraits of prominent men.

Edited by George Forrester
Illustrated
Chicago, Illinois
Warner, Publisher
1891-2

Charles Carr Carpenter

Charles Carr Carpenter (deceased) was born in Newburg(h), New York, April 26, 1827, and died in Stockholm, WI, 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), Charles Carr, 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) Lockwood, Samuel Lockwood, and George Lockwood, now a practicing physician at Rome, Wisconsin. In 1846 the family removed to Jefferson County, Wisconsin., 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, Wisconsin., July 24, 1860 to Miss Martha Jane Quiner. Her
parents, Henry and Charlotte (tucker) Quiner were old settlers in Jefferson County, WI. 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:
1. William Augustus (deceased)
2. Joseph Q
3. Lettie Jane
4. Nancy C
5. Martha E. (deceased)
6. Millicent Ann
7. Charles Carr (now running the family farm) (Jr.)
8. Emma B
9. Etta M
10. Martha J
11. Caroline M (twins)
12. Emeline M. (twins)
13. Tomas Q (twins)
14. George L (twins)

Mr. Carpenter spent the remainder of his life in the improvement and cultivation of the farm, where most of the family still resides. He was a republican in politics, and served his townsmen as school clerk, supervisor and justice of the peace.