George Carpenter was a farmer.  He was born in Randolph County, W. Va., May 23, 1822.  His parents, Solomon and Catharine (Hill) Carpenter, were natives of Virginia and Pennsylvania.  The former was born in 1784, and the latter November 9, of the same year.  They were married in Virginia, and had eight children when they came to Union County in 1830.  They located in Allen Township, where they both died-Mr. Carpenter August 11, 1837, and Mrs. C. February 5, 1855.  George is the youngest of the family.  He was reared to maturity on the farm.  At his father's death, he took charge of the farm, and conducted it till his mother's death, in 1855. January 17, 1850, he was married to Miss Sarah A. Wilber, a native of Allen Township, and daughter of James and Sarah Wilber.  Mrs. C. was born July 31, 1830.  Their four children are as follows: Lewis F., Winfield S., Olive, wife of Edward Stillings, and Carlton. Mary, born February 1862, and died February 1863.  Mr. Carpenter occupies the farm located by his father in 1837, when it was all in woods.  He began clearing it when only fifteen years old, and has improved most of it himself.  He has cultivated the soil of this farm ever since his father's death, except one year be spent in West, Middleburg, Logan County.  He and wife are members of the Woodstock Universalist Church. In politics, he is of Republican principle.