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

H. S. CARPENTER, of the firm of Carpenter & Marsh, grain merchants and proprietors of the 
Union Transfer Elevator, Joliet; was born in Orleans Co., N.Y., Nov. 25, 1826; he resided 
there until he was nearly 20 years of age; he received an academic education in Rochester 
and Albion, N.Y., and in 1846, came to Joliet; he taught school nine quarters in Troy Tp., 
and then engaged in speculating, buying and selling property, etc.; about twenty-five years 
ago, he engaged in the grain business, being now the oldest grain merchant in Joliet; in 
the spring of 1874, the firm of Carpenter & Marsh was established and the Union Transfer 
Elevator erected, at a cost, including the mill and dock in connection therewith, of some 
$15,000; they now do a yearly business of $1,5000,000 and handle about five millions of 
bushels of grain per annum.  Mr. CARPENTER was married Jan. 22, 1850, to Miss Henrietta 
SPENCER, of Troy Tp., and has three children -- Charles H., George, and Sarah F.


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