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 CARPENTER.

CARPENTER.

In 1881 he travelled extensivelj- in Europe and Egypt, and in 1882 went to Washington, D. C, as correspondent of the Cleveland Leader. Shortly after this he became connected with the American press association and the New York World. In 1888 he organized a combination of twelve leading journals for which he was to fur- nish one letter per week during a trip around the globe. He spent the years of 1888 and 1889 in Asia ; returning to Washington, he next made a tour of Mexico for his combination of news- papers, and following this went to Russia to write up the great famine there. In 1894 he again visited Asia, sailing from America with the avowed object of travelling twenty-five thou- sand miles for twenty-five letters, and having w^hat is perhaps one of the biggest newspaper assignments ever made. He spent 1898 in South America, and 1900 in the Pliilippmes, China, Australia, New Zealand and Java. He became especially noted as an interviewer, having pub- lished interviews with the most famous of Amer- icans, and such foreigners as the King of Corea, the King of Greece, the Kliediveof Egypt, Prince Otto Von Bismarck, and others. He is the author of South America : Social, Industrial and Political (1900), and of other books of travel.

CARPENTER, George Moulton, jurist, was born at Portsmouth, R. I., April :22, 18-14; son of George and Sarah (Lewis) Carpenter. At an early age he removed to New Bedford, Mass., where he attended the common schools. He was graduated at Brown university in 1864, and was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1867. He established himself in Providence, R. I., and in 1880 was appointed a commissioner for the revi- sion of the public laws of the state. He was elected associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island in 1882, and resigned in 1885 to be- come U. S. district judge for the district of Rhode Island. He Avas a 33d degree Mason ; first vice-president of the Rhode Island historical societ3^ and president of the Providence art as- sociation, the Providence art institute, and of the Providence homoeopathic dispensary. He died at Katwvk. Holland, July 31, 1896.

CARPENTER, George O., mercliant, was born near Copp's Hill, Boston, Dec. 26, 1827, son of George and Mary Bently (Oliver) Carpenter. He attended the Eliot school and had one yeax at the English high school. He served in several business houses in various capacities, and in 1847 became connected with the firm of Pratt, Rodgers «& Co. ; in 1849 he was made a partner, and two years later the firm name was changed to Banker & Carpenter ; in 1864 the style was again changed, to Carpenter, Banker & Morton, and in 1893 was incorporated under the title of the Carpenter-

Morton Company, with Mr. Carpenter as presi- dent. In 1876-"77 he was president of the Boston fire underwriters union; was vice-president of the Home savings bank; for forty years a di- rector of the national bank of South Reading, and for twenty-five years a director in the Eliot na- tional bank. He held various municipal and local offices, and belonged to many social organi- zations. He was married in 1850 to Josephine Emerson, and left two sons, George O. and Fred- erick B. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 26, 1896.

CARPENTER, George Thomas, educator, was born in Nelson county, Ky., March 4, 1834. In 1842 he was taken to Bureau county. 111., where his early education was acquired. He was pre- pared for college in the Princeton academy, where he supported himself by manual labor. He taught school until 1855, when he entered Abingdon college, and was graduated with valedictory honors in 18 59. He re- moved to Iowa, where he was large- ly instrumental in establishing Oska- loosa college, with which lie was con- nected during twenty years. In 1873 he was ap- pointed a United

States honorary commissioner to the World's fair at Vienna, Austria. For .several years he was editor-in-chief of the Christian Evangelist, and in 1879 declined the nomination for governor of Iowa on the Prohibition ticket. In 1881 he aided in founding Drake university in Des Moines, Iowa, and was elected its chancellor. Under his management the university greatly prospered. He died at Des Moines, Iowa, July 29, 1893.

CARPENTER, George W., scientist, was born in Germantown, Pa., July 31, 1802. He engaged in commerce, in which he was very successful, and employed his leisure in scientific pursuits. He attained celebrity as a geologist, was for thirty-six years treasurer of the Academy of natural sciences in Philadelphia, and a member of numerous scientific societies in the United States and Europe. His more important publica- tions are : Experiments and Remarks on Sev- eral Species and Varieties of Cinchona Bark (1825) ; Observations and Experiments on Opium (1828) ; Remarks on the Use of Piper- ine (1828) ; On the Mineralogy of Chester county, with an Account of some Minerals of Dela- loare, Maryland, and other localities (1828) ;

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