Carpenter went to Cambridge, Dane Co., bought a town site and mill property, and built a grist and saw mill.

The evidence

• “Carpenter went to New Orleans, and opened a commission house there, for the sale of the flour and the general produce which the townsmen shipped to that place; he continued there for ten months, when, fin account of the sickness of his son, James M., he sold out the business in New Orleans and returned to Evansville, after shipping on board the ship Noble, for Boston, 2,600 barrels of flour and about 2,000 bushels of corn ; he went to Boston, disposed of his shipment and returned to Evansville, where, in connection with Oliver Ladd, he started a dry-goods jobbing house, which they carried on for two years, during which time they made about $21,000. About the year 1845, he weot to Galena, 111., and engaged in the dry-goods and boot and shoe business, and, in about six months, on account of sickness in his family, boxed up his goods and shipped them to Beloit, Wis., where he opened a dry-goods, boot and shoe and grocery store; this business he carried on for about three years, and, in 1849, he went to Cambridge, Dane Co., and bouglit a town site and mill property, built a grist and saw mill, and ran them for two years and a half, when he sold them out; in 1851, he bought another town”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/18-bios-beloit.md, PDF p. 735 / book p. 739

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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