Levi Carpenter, retired farmer, was born in Deerfield, Tioga Co., Pa., July
22, 1827. He is son of Lyman and Almira (Cook) Carpenter, natives of New
Hampshire. His grandfather, Levi Cook, was a Captain in the Revolutionary
Army. HIs paternal grandfather settled with a small colony in Duffield,
Tioga Co., Pa., 60 miles from other settlers. Mr. Carpenter is second son
and sixth child of a family of 12 children, nine of whom are living. He was
reared on a farm, attended the common school, and , while still young
acquired the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he pursued 20 years. In
1857 he went to Will Co., Ill., and in 1864 to Joliet and worked in a door
and sash factory three years. In 1860 he bought a farm in sec. 23,
Caledonia. He was married Jan. 28, 1848, to Harriet, daughter of Nathaniel
C. and Cynthia (Smith) Tiffany, born in Massachusetts Oct. 4, 1826. They had
four children, only one of whom is living--Charles E., born in November,
1861. Cynthia, Curtis W. and Dency A. are deceased. Mr. Carpenter is a
Republican in politics and has held the office of Highway Commissioner 10
years, and of School Director nine years.