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He was promoted lieutenant, Jan. 23, 1858; served on the Mohaivk off Cuba, 1859-'60, and on the Flag and the CatskiU of the South Atlantic squadron. 18G2-"3; participating in the attacks on Charleston, S.C. He was promoted lieutenant commander, July 16, 1862; served at the naval academy, 1864-"65; on the flagship Hartford of the Asiatic squadron, 1866-"6T, and commanded the Wyoming 1868. He was stationed at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H., 1868-'69, and in 1871; was promoted commander in March, 1869; served on the North Atlantic squadron, 1871-'72 and 1875 '76, and was promoted captain March 25, 1 880. He was at the Boston navy yard 1880-"2; commanded the Hartford 1882-4; the receiving ship Wabash 1888- '90, and the Portsmouth navy yard 1890-'94. He was promoted commodore. May 15, 1893; rear ad- miral 1894; commanded the Asiatic squadron 1894-96, and was retired, Feb. 27, 1896. During the Spanish-American war he served as command- ant of the Portsmouth navy yard. He committed suicide at Jamaica Plain, Mass., April 2, 1899.

CARPENTER, Cyrus C, governor of Iowa, was born in Susquehanna county. Pa., in 1829. He attended a district school and apprenticed himself to a tailor. He later removed to Iowa, where he engaged in surveying government lands, and was teacher of the first school at Fort Dodge, Iowa. He then became land agent, and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1858. He served as commissary of subsistence in the Civil war, and attained the rank of lieutenant- colonel. He was elected register of tiie state land office in 1866 and 1868 and was governor of Iowa, 1872- 76. He died at Fort Dodge, May 29, 1898.

CARPENTER, Ellen M., artist, w-as born at Killiiigly, Conn., Nov. 28, 1836; daughter of Oliver and Amy (Smith) Carpenter. She com- menced her art education under the tutelage of Thomas Edwards of Worcester, Mass., in 1858. Later she attended the classes at the Lowell insti- tute, and in 1867 w'ent to Paris to continue her studies. On her return to the United States she opened a studio in Boston, where she became noted as a teacher. In 1873 she accompanied some of her students on a European tour for the purpose of sketching. In 1878 she studied figure painting under Gusson in Berlin, and under Julien and Carlo Rossi in Paris. Among her commissions were several portraits for Masonic hall, Boston, Mass. In 1890 she visited Europe, having received commissions to copy The Im- viaculate Conception and The Holy Family by Murillo, and several of the noted paintings in the Luxembourg. She visited Algiers in the sanie year, where she made sketches of eastern .scenes, and later went to Spain, where she painted bits from the interior of the AUianibra and from tiie palace in Seville.

CARPE.NTER, Francis Bicknell, painter, was born at Homer, Cortland county, N. Y., Aug, 6 1830; son of Asaph H. Carpenter and grandson o\ Noah Carpenter, a nephew of Ethan Allen. He early evinced a talent for drawing, which he persistently cultivated in the face of his father's opposition. For five months he was a pupil of Sanford Thayer of Syracuse, N. Y., and, return- ing to Homer, ke opened his first studio in 1846, where he painted many portraits. In 1847 he sent an ideal female head, entitled " The Jew- ess," to the exhibition of the American art union of New York city, which was purchased by the union. In May, 1851, he removed to New York, and his first important work in that city was a full-length portrait of David Leavitt, presi- dent of the American exchange bank, which was exhibited at the National academy of design in 1852, and the young artist was elected an associ- ate academician. His portraits of Presidents Fillmore and Pierce, and of Ex-President Tyler brought him into jarominence. The year 1855 he spent in Washington, where he painted Cass, Marcy, Seward, Chase, Houston and Cushing. On his return to New York, eminent i:)eople from all parts of the country flocked to his studio; some of the more prominent of those whose portraits he painted were Charles Sumner, Henry Ward and Lyman Beecher, Schuyler Colfax, James Russell Lowell and Ezra Cornell. In 1864 Mr. Carpenter was invited by President Lincoln to the White House to paint the historic group. Till' First Reading of the Einancipation Procla- ination, which was afterwards placed at the head of the stairway in the national capitol. a gift to the government from Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson. In 1871 he commenced, and in 1891 he completed, his second liistorical composition, the First International Court of Arbitration, which hangs in Windsor castle, a gift to Queen Victoria from the women of America, through the bene- ficence of Mrs. Wm. W. Carson. In 1874 he com- pleted a full-length portrait of Lincoln for the capitol at Albany, and in 1885 painted a portrait of President Garfield, which w-as presented to Dartmouth college by H. C. Bullard of New York. His portrait of President Lincoln, the original stu ly from which the face in the emancipation group was painted, is the accepted portrait of the great emancipator. Mr. Carpenter published " Six Months in the White House with Abraham Lincoln" (1886). He died in New York city, May 23, 1901.

CARPENTER, Frank George, journalist, was born at Mansfield, Oliio. in 11S65; son of George Fraidv and Jeannette (Reid) Carpenter. He was graduated at the University of Wooster (Ohio) in 1877, and in 1878 Ijecame the legislative cor- respondent of the Cleveland Leader at Columbus.