The Dorchester Beacon, October 16, 1907
Edward W. Carpenter
Skilful plumber and gasfitter, 2 Harvard Street, Dorchester
One of the most skilful and scientific representatives of the plumbing industry in this region is Edward W. Carpenter, whose establishment is: at No. 2 Harvard Street, Dorchester. Mr. Carpenter began business in 1903, at No. 350 Washington Street. and removed to his present location this year. His place is neatly fitted up, and his shop, in the rear of the office, is fully equipped with the most up-to-date mechanical appliances known to the modern plumbers’ trade. Mr. Carpenter does everything in the plumbing line, in steam and hot water heating and gas fitting. He installs furnaces, ranges, stoves and heaters and makes all kinds of repairs on the same. He employs a force of skilled workmen whose number varies somewhat according to the size of the contracts on hand to be executed. Some of the most important contracts in the plumbing and kindred lines executed in this region lately have been done by Mr. Carpenter and have reflected much credit on his skill and resourcefulness in his calling. He is well known, also, for the fidelity with which he keeps every agreement into which he enters, never slighting or neglecting even a minute detail of the job he has contracted to do.
Mr. Carpenter was born in Vermont and received his education in the schools of the Green .Mountain state. He has ‘been a resident of Boston for the last 15 years and has worked 13 years at his trade. He is highly respected and greatly esteemed by all who know him.