Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Allen P CARPENTER, farming, Sec. 5; P.O. Channahon; the subject of this sketch was 
born in Orleans Co., N.Y. Jan. 27, 1834.  He married Miss Ellen SPENCER Jan. 10, 1855.  
They had two children; both died.  He lived in New York until 1853, when he came West 
and settled in Joliet, where he remained on year and then came to this township, and 
engaged in farming; remained three years; then he went to Troy Tp., and lived there 
two years. He then went to Minooka, Grundy Co., Ill., and engaged in the grain business; 
remained two years; then he engaged in same business at Minooka Landing; remainded three 
years; then in 1865 he came to his present place; in 1868, he became partner with Marshall 
TRUBY, in the grain business at Joliet and Bird's Bridge; they carried on the business 
seven years.  He came West in poor circumstances, and now owns 178 acres in this township.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.