Daniel Oscar Carpenter
Daniel Oscar Carpenter, who owns a fine farm of 100 acres on the north line of New Alexandria, O., was born at Brilliant, Jeflferson County, Ohio, September 7, 1850, and is a son of Robert and Delilah (Bucey) Carpenter.
Robert Carpenter was a son of Daniel Carpenter and they were both farmers in Jefferson County. Robert married Delilah Bucey and they had four children, Charles, Daniel O., Robert, and Eliza, who is the widow of John Bone. Robert Carpenter died in 1856. Later his widow married Benjamin Linton and four children were born of that marriage, William, Cora, John and Laura. Mrs. Linton still surnives, being now in her eighty-fifth year.
Daniel O. Carpenter was six years old when his father died and when he was nine he commenced to support himself, finding work on neighboring farms. For about thirteen years he worked for $2.50 a month and even when fifteen years of age could secure only $3 a month for the hardest kind of work. He was learaing farming, however, in every detail and when he married, at the age of twenty-four years and rented farm land for himself, he undertook a line of work with which he was entirely familiar and hence made a success of it. He is now one of the independent and substantial men of his township. In politics he is a Democrat, and has served at different times on both the election board and the school board.
On August 16, 1874, Mr. Carpenter was married to Miss Amanda S. Farquar, a daughter of John and Nancy (Brownlee) Farquar. The parents of Mrs. Carpenter are deceased. They had the following children: Thomas, John, Joseph, Rachel and Matilda, all deceased; Mary, wife of John Thompson, Amanda S., wife of Daniel O. Carpenter; Margaret, widow of John T. Huff, and Virginia, deceased, who was the wife of R. K. Pennel. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter have one son, Harry M. Carpenter, who is an instructor in the Grant School at Steubenville. He married Stella Wood, and they have a daughter, Estelle Gertrude. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In August, 1884, Mr. Carpenter joined Wildwood Lodge, No. 590, Odd Fellows, at New Alexandria, O.
20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910