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Carpenter, Rolla Clinton

educator, mechanical engineer, author, was born June 26, 1852, in Orion, Mich. He received his education at the Michigan Agricultural college, Michigan university, and Cornell university. After serving as a civil engineer on railroad construction he became professor of civil engineering and mathematics in the Michigan Agricultural college; and afterward professor of experimental engineering in the Cornell university. He has been consulting engineer for various important electrical railroads; and has made several important investigations relating to applied mechanics. He is the author of a work on Experimental Engineering; one on Heating and Ventilating Buildings; and on Testing of Materials.

CARPENTER, STEPHEN CUTTER, journalist, author, was born in England.

He was an English journalist who came to America in 1803 and settled in Charleston. He is the author of Memoir of Thomas Jefferson, containing a Concise History of the United States; and An Overland Journey to India. He died about 1820.

CARPENTER, STEPHEN HASKINS, educator, author, was born Aug. 7, 1831, in Little Falls, N. Y. He was a Wisconsin educator; and 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, N. Y.