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The History of Tuscola, Michigan
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1883


     EDWARD J. CARPENTER, farmer and lumberman, was born in St. Lawrence County,
     N.Y., December 15, 1832. He left his native State when about nineteen years
     of age, and spent some two years as an overseer of men in the building of
     the Great Western Railway. He afterward took part in building the Utica &
     Black River Railroad, and later was a conductor on that road. On December
     10, 1855, he was married to Miss MAHALA DENSLOW, of Boonville, N. Y. She
     was born there January 28, 1838. They have had five children, LESTER J.,
     FRED E., ALBERT D. (now deceased), EDWARD J., JR., and JENNIE MAHALA.
     Immediately after marriage Mr. and Mrs. CARPENTER stated for the West, and
     located on the Elkhorn River. The summer of 1859 Mr. CARPENTER spent in
     traversing the Rocky Mountains, and that fall they returned to their native
     place. They next came to Ellington, Mich., July 3, 1862, and settled in
     section 19, where they now reside. Mr. CARPENTER has 213 acres of land,
     about 160 of which are under cultivation. He had two thriving orchards of
     the best varieties of apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, grapes and
     small fruits, besides numerous other enticing home comforts and luxuries.
     Mr. CARPENTER has spent most of his winters in lumbering, and with good
     success. He has frequently found it a more pleasant employment than farm-
     ing. He has conducted his lumbering business mostly without a partner, yet
     the enterprise has reached at least ten million feet. Mr. CARPENTER has
     been township clerk two years, and two years supervisor.

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