Alameda County Biographies

DANIEL S. CARPENTER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	The present efficient and popular Tax Collector of Contra Costa County, was born in 
Newport, Herkimer County, New York, November 18, 1831.  He resided on a farm and was educated 
at the common schools until 1852.  March 5th of that year our subject with one cousin started 
for California, sailing from New York via Central America, arriving in San Francisco April 10th 
of the same year.  Mr. Carpenter immediately proceeded to Sacramento to join a brother who had 
preceded him to this coast, and remained in the latter place until fall, when he proceeded to 
Trinity County, where he engaged in mining for two years, meeting with good success.  Mr. 
Carpenter next moved to Auburn, Placer County, and followed several occupations, at one time 
being Deputy Sheriff of said county, and afterwards engaged in tunnel-mining at Iowa Hill, where 
he met with financial reverses, and concluded to try agricultural pursuits and selected Contra 
Costa as his base of future operations.  He first located in New York Valley, where he resided 
until dispossessed by the owners of the New York grant.  We next find Mr. Carpenter located on 
the San Joaquin on the place now occupied by the Empire Mine, and engaged in the mining business 
for two summers.  He then moved to a ranch six miles from Martinez, where he resided but a short 
time, and in the fall of 1860 moved to where he now resides, at Clayton.  Mr. Carpenter was 
Justice of the Peace of Clayton for a term of ten years, and October 3, 1881, was appointed by 
the Board of Supervisors to the office of Tax Collector to fill the vacancy caused by the death 
of Mr. Shuey.  The subject of our sketch was united in marriage in Clayton, November 19, 1863, to 
Miss Sarah F. Curry, a native of Missouri.  They have eight children, viz.:  William L., Charles 
B., Alice M., Nellie E., Daniel S., Myron E., Clarence M., and Annie F.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 860