San Antonio, Missouri

blacksmith and inventor, San Antonio, was born August 13, 185 1, in Lawrence County, Ohio, and was taken to Nodaway County, Missouri, when aboiat five years of age. He spent his boyhood days on a farm, and received a common school education. His father was killed in 1861, and since that time P. R. has taken care of himself. He commenced to learn the blacksmith trade in 1872, and has worked at it since. He moved to San Antonio February 10, 1879, and now has a neat and well arranged shop. He has displayed quite a taste for inventing, and already has two patents. His field roller, known as the Blackford and Davis Roller, is a novelty in design. His patent stalk cutter is something new, and, like the roller, gives vast advantages over other machinery. He also has a new idea in the shape of a three-horse whiffletree. His machinery has met with the approval of some of the best farmers in the state. He was married November 23, 1875, to Miss Sarah S. Owens, a native of Nodaway, County, Missouri, born in 1857. They have had three children, Henry, Ira and Delbert. Himself and wife are members of the Cumberland Church.

Passage source: The History of Buchanan County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Buchanan County in the Late War, General and Local Statisics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Buchanan County, Etc., Etc, published 1881.

was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, January 21, 18 18. His father, Matthew Carpenter, was a representative man in that country. He was a soldier in the war of 18 12, and a descendant of some of the earliest settlers of the Old Dominion. His mother's maiden name was Harriet Benson. She was of French descent. Lewis F. was the eldest of a family of eight children, and was raised in his native county, where he received such education as was attainable in that day and county. At the age of seventeen, he went to Front Royal in Warren County, Virginia, where he spent seven years learning the wagon-making trade. September 28, 1843, he married Miss Elizabeth Varner, a native of Page County, Virginia. In the fall of 1854, he left for the West, and on the 9th of November of the same year arrived in St. Joseph, where he remained till the following spring, when he purchased 254 acres of land in the northeast corner of the county. Of this he has made one of the best improved farms in the county. Few men have contributed more materially to the growth and development of the same. In politics he is a Democrat, having voted that ticket since 1840, when he cast his first vote for President Van Buren. He has raised a family of ten children, nine sons and one daughter : Wm. H., Dr. Stephen F., a representative physician of St. Joseph ; Daniel E., a farmer of Andrew County ; Thos. J. and Robert S., residents of St. Joseph ; John A., Franklin P., Eddie, Burr H. and Mary E. Carpenter. In the fall of 1880, Lewis F. Carpenter was elected Judge of the County Court of Buchanan County, and bears the reputation of a capable and popular official.

Passage source: The History of Buchanan County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Buchanan County in the Late War, General and Local Statisics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Buchanan County, Etc., Etc, published 1881.

merchant and postmaster, San Antonio, was born September 15, 1852, in Muskingum County, Ohio, and was taken to Iowa by his parents, when about two years of age. Came from there to this county in thespring of 1865, and has made this his home ever since. Spent his boyhood days on a farm, receiving his education in the schools of this vicinity, and when fourteen years of age he left home and worked by the month until twenty-two years old. Then married, and commencedfarming on his own account. On the 14th of August, 1880, he purchased the store at this place, which is well filled with a general stock of goods, and' Mr. Taylor has secured a liberal patronage. Was married October 8,. 1874, to Matilda Simmons, a native of this county, born September 23,, 1856. They have three children^Ira P., Ida L. and Delia P. Mrs. T_ is a member of the M. E. Church.

Passage source: The History of Buchanan County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Buchanan County in the Late War, General and Local Statisics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Buchanan County, Etc., Etc, published 1881.

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