Mr. Amos Bugbee Carpenter

CARPENTER, Amos Bugbee & Miner Bugbee
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Amos Bugbee CARPENTER, of Waterford, was born 25 May 1818 in Waterford [Caledonia County, Vermont], son of Isaiah and Caroline (BUGBEE) CARPENTER.The first of the family who emigrated to America was William CARPENTER, who came from Wherwell, England, in 1638, and was one of the earliest settlers of Weymouth [Warren County, Massachusetts] and Rehoboth [Bristol County], Massachusetts.Jonah CARPENTER, the grandfather of Amos Bugbee CARPENTER, was a minute man during the Revolutionary War, and Isaiah, his son, came to Waterford in 1808, where he cleared a farm, which has since been the family home. Mr. Amos Bugbee CARPENTER attended the common schools of Waterford, and afterwards pursued short courses of study at the Lyndon Academy and Peacham grammar school.When eighteen years of age, and each season after that time until married, he taught school during the winter and attended to his farm duties during the summer; but though his educational opportunities were limited, he has supplemented them by a lifelong habit of reading, and a large experience of men and affairs.He has made general farming the vocation of his life, paying considerable attention to the products of the dairy. On 24 June 1847 he [Amos Bugbee CARPENTER] was united in marriage to Cosbi B., daughter of Ezra and Hannah (BURLEIGH) PARKER, of Littleton [Grafton County], New Hampshire.They have had eight children, six of whom still live: (1) Martha W., Mrs. Stillman F. CUTTING, of Concord [Essex County, Vermont]; (2) Althea C., Mrs. Stephen J. HASTINGS, of Waterford; (3) Philander Isaiah, who died in infancy; (4) Caroline Bugbee, Mrs. L. J. CUMMINGS, deceased; (5) Amos Herbert; (6) Cosbi May, Mrs. L. J. CUMMINGS, of Clinton [Clinton County], Iowa; (7) Ezra Parker; and (8) Miner Bugbee. [It appears that L. J. CUMMINGS, after the death of his wife, Caroline Bugbee CARPENTER, then married her sister, Cosbi May CARPENTER.] Mr. CARPENTER is a consistent Republican, and for thirty-eight years has discharged the duties of postmaster at West Waterford.He was a member of the state Legislature from Waterford in 1888.Nearly half a century ago he was elected a corresponding member of the Historical and Genealogical Society at Boston, and is about to publish a record of the CARPENTER family, on which he has persistently labored for many years.He has received the three degrees of Blue Lodge Masonry, and is a member of Moose River Lodge of West Concord.He was one of the charter members of the Green Mountain Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, which was the first subordinate body formed in New England, and later was selected to be Master of Waterford Grange.

Biography of Miner Bugbee CARPENTER (son of Amos B.) Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States.Dodge.Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 140 Miner B. CARPENTER, butter manufacturer, Concord [Essex County, Vermont], was born 26 October 1867 in Waterford [Caledonia County, Vermont], son of Amos B. and Cosbi B. (PARKER) CARPENTER.Educated in the public schools of Waterford, St. Johnsbury Academy, class of 1890, and Clinton [Clinton County], Iowa, Business College.

CARPENTER, then married her sister, Cosbi May CARPENTER.]

Mr. CARPENTER is a consistent Republican, and for thirty-eight years has discharged the duties of postmaster at West Waterford.He was a member of the state Legislature from Waterford in 1888.Nearly half a century ago he was elected a corresponding member of the Historical and Genealogical Society at Boston, and is about to publish a record of the CARPENTER family, on which he has persistently labored for many years.He has received the three degrees of Blue Lodge Masonry, and is a member of Moose River Lodge of West Concord.He was one of the charter members of the Green Mountain Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, which was the first subordinate body formed in New England, and later was selected to be Master of Waterford Grange.

Biography of Miner Bugbee CARPENTER (son of Amos B.)
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P. [Ezra Parker] CARPENTER, built a creamery; in 1896 formed a stock company