. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ted April7, 1883, he has a daughter and son, twelve and threeyears of age respectively at time of writing. GEORGE CARPENTER, SWANZEY. V^alley View at the foot of Mount Caesar in Swan-zey is widely known as the seat of a generous is the home of George Carpenter, great-grandsonof Rev. Ezra Carpenter, who was born April i, 1698,and settled over the united parishes of Keene and Swan-zey, then known as Upper and Lower Ashuelot, Oct. 4,1753, locating upon the farm, on the slope of MountCaesar, wiiich has ever since been held
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. ted April7, 1883, he has a daughter and son, twelve and threeyears of age respectively at time of writing. GEORGE CARPENTER, SWANZEY. V^alley View at the foot of Mount Caesar in Swan-zey is widely known as the seat of a generous is the home of George Carpenter, great-grandsonof Rev. Ezra Carpenter, who was born April i, 1698,and settled over the united parishes of Keene and Swan-zey, then known as Upper and Lower Ashuelot, Oct. 4,1753, locating upon the farm, on the slope of MountCaesar, wiiich has ever since been held in the family,the entire period being covered by lour Carpenter, born March 31, 1733, succeededhis father in its ownership. He died February 3, 1808,leaving it to liis son Elijah, born December 23, 1779,and who died October 24, 1861. Elijah Carpenter wasa prominent and influential citizen, serving in bothbranches of the state legislature, and for ten years assherifl of Cheshire county. George Carpenter, son of Hon. Elijah and Fanny. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 297 (Partridge) Carpenter, was born on this larni September13, 1828. He was educated in the common school, atMt. Cajsar Seminary, Swanzey, and at Saxtons Riverand Ludlow, Vt., academies. In 1850 he went South,and engaged in the business of tinning roots and railroadbridges, 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 Chautauq
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