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Carpenter, Davis

soldier, physician, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1799, in Walpole, N. H. He attained the position of colonel of a rifle corps; was a representative in congress from New York from 1853 to 1855.

Carpenter, Edmund James

journalist, author, was born in 1845 in Massachusetts. He is a noted journalist of Boston, and the author of A Woman of Shawmut, a Romance of Colonial Times; and History of Roger Williams.

Carpenter, Elisha

lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 14, 1824, in Ashford, Conn.

In 1845 he was elected judge of probate court and state's attorney in Windham county, Conn.; from 1857-58 was a member of the state senate; 1861 was judge of the superior court; and in 1866 was judge of the supreme bench of the state.

Carpenter, Ellen M

educator, artist, was born Nov. 28, 1830, in Killingly, Conn. Much of her time is devoted to teaching art in Boston. Among her works are The Yosemite Valley; Temples of Pæstum; Venice, Grand Canal; and numerous portraits.

Carpenter, Levi D

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New York, from 1843 to 1845, to fill a vacancy.

Carpenter, Lewis Cass

journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1836, in Putnam, Conn. He was appointed to a position in the treasury department; was correspondent for several newspapers; assisted in establishing the first daily paper in South Carolina, The Charleston Republican, in 1868, and removed there in 1870 to become one of its editors.

He established The Daily Union in 1870; and was elected to the forty-third congress to fill a vacancy.

Carpenter, Miron J

railroad president, was born April 12, 1850, in Caledonia, Ill. He is the president of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad.

CARPENTER, NEWTON FRANCIS, lawyer, legislator, was born April 27, 1831, in Rehoboth, Mass. In 1866 he was a member of the Wisconsin legislature. He has been a justice of the peace for twenty years, and court commissioner fourteen years.

Carr, Francis

congressman, was born in 1752. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from 1806 to 1811; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1813. He died in October, 1821.

Carr, James

congressman. He served three years in the Massachusetts legislature from Bangor, and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1817.

Carr, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1831 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1841. He died Jan. 20, 1845, in Clark county, Ind.

Carr, Joseph B

soldier, was born Aug. 16, 1826, in Albany, N. Y. When the civil war broke out he was made lieutenant-colonel, and then colonel of the second New York volunteers. In 1865 he was brevetted major-general, and in 1893 appointed major-general.

Carr, Lucien

archæologist, author, was born in 1829, in Missouri. He is an archæologist of Cambridge, and was curator of the Peabody museum from 1876 to 1894. He is the author of The Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Historically Considered; Missouri, a brief History of the State; and Prehistoric Remains of Kentucky.