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Carpenter, George W

scientist, was born July 31, 1802, in Germantown, Pa. He was a successful merchant in Philadelphia, and devoted his leisure to the study of sciences. His opinion on subjects in geology was of recognized value. He accumulated a choice collection of minerals, and showed considerable interest in the medical sciences. He died June 7, 1860, in Germantown, Pa.

CARPENTER, HENRY BERNARD, clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1840 in Ireland. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, and brother of W. Boyd Carpenter, the Anglican bishop of Ripon. He wrote principally in verse, his only published books including The Oatmeal Crusaders; Liber Amoris, a Metrical Romance of the Middle Ages; and A Poet's Last Songs. He died in 1890.