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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Carpenter, Miron J., railroad president, was born April 13, 1850, in Caledonia, 111. He is the president of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad. Carpenter, Philip, lawyer, jurist, was born March 9, 1856, in Bath, N.H. He began the practice of law in 1880; and in 1885 practiced his profession in New York City. He served as judge-advocate general in New Hampshire on the staff of General Moody Currier.

Carpenter Rolla Clinton, educator, consulting engineer, author, was born June 26, 1853, in Orion, Mich. He received the degree of

M.S.

from

Michigan

agricultural college; in

1875

graduated

with

the degree of C.E. from the university of Michigan; and was a student at Cornell uni-

college;

and

versity, from which institution he received the degree of master of mechanical engineering. In 1879-90 he was professor in the Michigan agricultural since 1890 has been professor of

experimental engineering at Cornell university. He is a consulting engineer for numerous cement companies; has constructed

numerous power stations for electric railways; and has had active charge of many engineering constructions. He was a judge of machinery and transportation at the World's fair and at the Pan-American exposition. He is the author of Experimental Engineering; Heating and Ventilating Engineering; and numerous Monographs on kindred subjects. Carpenter, Samuel, colonist, was born in 1644 in England. He very early espoused the cause of the quakers; and in 1683 established himself in Philadelphia. In 1685-1714 was treasurer of the province. He was a member of the supreme court of New Jersey; and deputy governor 1694-98. He died April 10, 1714, in Philadelphia, Pa. Carpenter, Stephen Cutter, journalist, author,

was born

lish journalist

in England. to

who came

He was an EngAmerica

in 1803

He was the auThomas Jefferson, con-

and settled in Charleston.

thor of Memoir of taining a Concise History of the United States; An Overland Journey to India; and Letter on the Present Times. He died about 1830 in Charleston, W.Va. Carpenter, Stephen Haskins, educator, author, was born Aug. 7, 1831, in Little Falls, N.Y. He was professor of literature at the university of Wisconsin. He was the author of Evidences of Christianity; English of the Fourteenth Century; Introduction to the Study of Anglo-Saxon; and Elements of English Analysis. He died Dec. 7, 1831, in Little Falls,

Carpenter, 36

N.Y.

Thomas

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was born April 19, 1804, in Glassboro, N.J. In 1838 he was appointed prosecutor of the pleas of Gloucester county. About 1845 he was appointed one of the associate justices of supreme court of New Jersey; and served seven years. Died March 2, 1876, Camden, NJ. Carpenter, William, printer, author, was born in 1830 in England. He strenuously advocated the theory that the earth is flat; revolving on a central axis with the sun stationary over the center. He was the author of The Earth Not a Globe, by Common Sense; Sir Isaac Newton's Theoretical Astronomy Examined and Refuted by Common Sense; Water not Convex; Proctor's Planet Earth; and Something About Spirtualism. He died in 1896 in Baltimore, Md. Carpenter, William Henry, educator, philologist, author, was born July 15, 1853, in Utica, N.Y. He was educated at the Utica

academy and at Cornell university; studied in Leipzig and Freiburg; and in 1881 received the degree of A.B. from Hamilton college. He has been an instructor and professor of rhetoric, German and Scandinavian languages; and since 1902 has been Villard professor of Germanic philology at Columbia university of New York City. He is the author of several German books ; and a number of poems in Icelandic. Carpenter, William L., lawyer, jurist, college president, was born Nov. 9, 1854, in Orion, Mich. In 1879-94 he was an attorney of Detroit, Mich. In 1894-1902 he was judge of the Wayne circuit court at Detroit, Mich.; and in 1902 he became an associate justice of the supreme court of Michigan. In 190308 he was president of the Detroit college of law, when he resigned; and now practices law in Detroit, Mich. Carpenter, William Lewis, soldier, naturalist, was born Jan. 13, 1844, in Dunkirk, N. Y. In 1867 he was promoted to a second lieutenancy in the ninth infantry United States army; and in 1873 was promoted to the first lieutenant. In 1873 he became naturalist to the United States geological survey; and two years later was called to a similar office on the geographical survey. Carpenter, William Thomas, railroad president, was born on Feb. 14, 1850, in Clarke county, 111. He is president of the Little Brook Cliff railway at Grand Junction, Col. Carr, Caleb, colonial governor. He was one of the early governors of Rhode Island; and was filling the position at the time of his death. He died in 1695 in Rhode Island. Carr, Camillo Casatti Cadmus, soldier, author, was born March 3, 1842, in Harrisonburg, Va. He entered the United States army in 1862 as a private in the first regiment United States cavalry; and in 1903 attained the rank of brigadier-general. He was retired in 1906. He is the translator of Cavalry Outpost Duties. Carr, Dabney S., publisher, diplomat, was born March 5, 1803, in Albemarle county, Va. In 1827 he established the Republic and