Sacramento County
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NATHAN TRACY
CARPENTER
N. TRACY CARPENTER--An experienced poultry-raiser, familiar especially with California conditions, favorable or unfavorable to that industry here, is N. Tracy Carpenter, who has made his chicken ranch on Fifty-third Street one of the interesting show-places in Sacramento County. He was born in Eldorado County, California, the son of C. G. and Sarah (Payne) Carpenter, a pioneer couple of such early days that his father came out seeking the Golden State, by way of the Isthmus, in 1850, and his mother followed during the next year. He tried regular mining for a while, and then he dug a large ditch for irrigation and mining, in Eldorado County. He farmed, and raised fruit and stock, until he died. Mrs. Carpenter preceded her husband in death.
N. Tracy Carpenter attended the public schools of Eldorado County, and the remained with his father, in agricultural pursuits, until the latter’s death. After that, for three years, he took charge of the farm; and in 1887 he removed to Sacramento and here commenced raising chickens, in a modest way, starting with about eight Leghorns, and hatching by hens. Then he installed the incubators and brooders, and now he has 2,000 hens, housed and yarded on ten acres. He is the pioneer poultryman in Sacramento, and has been reasonably successful in hatching and shipping baby chicks to all sections, although the surplus eggs he has usually disposed of in Sacramento. He also raises pigeons and squabs.
In 1884, Mr. Carpenter was married to Miss Ninta F. Lowe, a native of Illinois, who had been in California since her childhood. Two children have blessed the union: Bernice, a graduate of the University of California, taught for a while in the Placerville high school, and is now married to George J. Steedman; and Cyril T. has always been at home with his father. Mr. Carpenter is a member of the Chamber of Commerce; and in politics, he has Republican preferences. Two grandchildren give joy to the Carpenter hearth; they are George and Robert Steedman, and they live in Oakland.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 926. Historic
Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.