He was a smith, and Wåge Olofsson took us to the smithy in Kvill to photograph it.
His household in Kvill (Qvill) is listed as a smith at https://app.arkivdigital.se/volume/v20654?image=18 . There we got his birth date, for example. It says they moved from Vetlanda to Kråkshult in 1827, just before Carl August was born, and then they moved to Vetlanda in 1831 (?).
Elisabeth Catherine Danielsdotter
See the census for Carl August. It's actually unclear whether she is his mother.
Her birth record is in http://app.arkivdigital.se/volume/v36107?image=49 , and it seems to say that she was actually born in Lillarp, 2km west of Skirö.
Presumably the birth was recorded in Skirö because Lillarp has no church.