. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. dges, including that over the James river at pursued this business lor two years in dillerentsections of the country, but in 1852 caught the goldfever and went to California, where he engaged inmining, and subse-quently in farming atSanta Clara returned East in1855, and on June 14,1864, was united inmarriage with MissLucy J., daughter ofColonel Carter andLucy (Baker) Whit-comb, since whichtime he has resided onthe ancestral home-stead, with the excep-tion of six years inChesterfield, where hecarried on a variety of
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. dges, including that over the James river at pursued this business lor two years in dillerentsections of the country, but in 1852 caught the goldfever and went to California, where he engaged inmining, and subse-quently in farming atSanta Clara returned East in1855, and on June 14,1864, was united inmarriage with MissLucy J., daughter ofColonel Carter andLucy (Baker) Whit-comb, since whichtime he has resided onthe ancestral home-stead, with the excep-tion of six years inChesterfield, where hecarried on a variety oflumbering operations. Mr. Carpenter has always been a student, and, withhis wife, took up the Chautauqua course in 1883, gradua-ting in the Pansy class of 1887, and subsequently pur-suing the University course under eminent instructors forseveral years. Economic e|uestions have especially com-manded his attention, and while reared a Democrat, andlong acting with that party, he has been led throughinvestigation and reflection to ally himself with various. Geor(;e Carpenter. 298 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. reform movements in politics that have arisen in recentyears. He was the Greenback candidate for congressin his district in 1882, also for governor in 1884 and 1886,and a Peoples Party candidate for presidential elector in1892, continuing his alliance with the latter organization,and giving his support to William J. Bryan for presi-dent in 1896. The old Carpenter homestead has long been regardedas a place of historic interest. The old Indian Ibrt wassituated on this farm, and the same spring that suppliedthe fort is the source of Mr. Carpenters water-supplyto-day, the original curb, cut from a hollow pine, stilldoing service in the same capacity. The farm containsabout 200 acres of land, of which forty are in mowing andtillage, divided into small fields by the original heavystone walls. The pastures of late have been allowed togrow up largely to young timber, Nature being regard
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