Caledonia

CARPENTER, Amos Bugbee & Miner Bugbee

Biography of Amos Bugbee CARPENTER (father of Miner B.)

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 65 
(portrait p 65)

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. On graduating from business college 
returned to Waterford, engaged in farming, and in 1891, with his brother, E. 
P. [Ezra Parker] CARPENTER, built a creamery; in 1896 formed a stock company 
under the name of the Trout Brook Creamery Company, moving to Concord in 
1892, and has done an increasing business each year since; the last year's 
business amounting to $70,000, taking in nearly one million pounds of cream 
and making a quarter of a million pounds of butter; at present manager and 
treasurer of the creamery. Republican. Member of the Methodist Church and 
superintendent of the Sunday school. In 1899 he [Miner Bugbee CARPENTER] 
married [Miss?] Mary GOSS of Waterford. They have two daughters, Priscilla 
and Lucile.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly