Bio: Carpenter, Edgar B. - City’s Youngest Business Man (1902)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Donaldson, Carpenter, Begley

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 11 Apr 1902

As was recently announced in the Gleaner’s advertising columns, E.S. Donaldson has sold his interest in the E.S. Donaldson & Company hardware business to his partner, Edgar B. Carpenter, who has owned a alf interest in the store for the past three years, having left the high school during the last of his third year to assume duties in the store.

Edgar B. Carpenter is the son of Edgar H. and Eliza Carpenter, the father having died in 1887. He was born in August 1880, making him nearly twenty-two years old now, and the youngest businessman in Greenwood at the present time. He was born near the city and is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Begley, who were among the pioneers in this part of the county. He has always taken a deep interest in his chosen work and has kept up a course of study by correspondence along lines helpful to his business. He looks ahead with an ambitious pride in his business, and is determined to maintain a hardware trade that shall be a credit to himself and his town. With his grit, tact and genial manners and close attention to the details of his business, it takes no prophet to predict success as a crown to his efforts.

He are best wishes for Greenwood’s youngest businessman, Edgar B. Carpenter.