Carmichael, Richard B – Carpenter, Newton Francis
Carmichael, Richard B
lawyer, congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative from Maryland in the twenty-third congress, and was president of the courts of Queen Anne county in 1861.
Carmichael, William
diplomat, was born in Maryland. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1780; was secretary of legation during Mr. Jay's mission to Spain; and remained as charge d'affaires after Mr. Jay left in 1782, receiving a commission in 1780, and retained the office for about fifteen years.
He died in February, 1795.
Carmiencke, John Hermann
artist, was born in 1810 in Germany. He was industrious in the pursuit of his art, and his paintings are faithful delineations of the forms of nature. He was a very successful teacher, a member of the Art association, and one of the earliest and most active members of the Brooklyn Academy of Design, and of the Artists' Fund society of New York. He died June 15, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Carnahan, James
clergyman, college president, was born Nov. 15, 1775, in Carlisle, Pa. He was ordained pastor of the united churches of Whitesborough and Utica, where he remained until 1814.
He opened a classical academy in Georgetown, D. C., and taught for nine years, when he was elected to the presidency of Princeton college of New Jersey. He died March 2, 1859, in Newark, N. J.
Carnegie, Andrew
manufacturer, author, was born Nov. 2, 1835, in Scotland. He is a noted steel manufacturer of Pittsburg who came to America in 1845.
He has made many important gifts to his native Scotland and to Pittsburg, and as a writer is distinguished for the rather exuberant Americanism of his work. He is the author of An American Four-in- Hand in Europe; Round the World; and Triumphant Democracy, or Fifty Years' March of the Republic.
Carnes, Thomas P
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Maryland. He was solicitor-general, attorney-general, and judge of the supreme court, and was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1793 to 1795. He died May 8, 1822, in Milledgeville, Ga.
Carney, Julia A
educator, author, was born April 6, 1823, in Lancaster, Mass. Her maiden name was Fletcher, under which name appeared the popular poem Little Drops of Water. Many of her poems have been set to music and published in school text-books, and used in the hymn-books of churches for more than half a century.
Carney, Thomas
governor. He was a governor of Kansas from 1861 to 1864.
Carnochan, John Murray
surgeon, author, was born July 4, 1817, in Savannah, Ga. He was noted as a surgeon of distinction; and was the author of Treatise on Congenital Dislocations, and Contributions to Operative Surgery.
He died Oct. 28, 1887, in New York city.
Carow, Isaac
merchant, was born March 29, 1778, in the West Indies. He was a member of the firm of Kennit and Carow, shipping merchants of New York city; and from 1839 until 1842 was president of the chamber of commerce. He died Sept. 3, 1850, in New York city.
Carpender, Edward William
naval officer, was born Jan. 28, 1797, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was placed on the reserved list in 1855, and became commodore in 1862. During 1864-66 he was prize commissioner at Key West, Fla. He died May 16, 1877, in Shrewsbury, N. J.
Carpenter, Amelia Walstein
author, poet, was born Feb. 23, 1840, in Stephentown, N. Y. She has contributed to Frank Leslie's periodicals, is a correspondent of the Springfield Republican; editor of the New York Citizen; and as a poetess and novelist has gained a favorable reputation.
Carpenter, Benjamin
patriot, was born in 1726 in Rehoboth, Mass. He was one of the founders of the town of Guilford in 1770, and served during the revolutionary war as a field officer. Later he was a member of the first constitutional convention of Vermont and also a member of the council. In 1778 he was elected lieutenant-governor of the state, and afterward became one of the council of censors. He died March 29, 1823, in Guilford, Vt.
Carpenter, Charles Ketchum
farmer, state legislator, governor, author, was born Jan. 23, 1826, in Hornellsville, N. Y. He settled in Michigan in 1837.
In 1858 he was elected to the lower branch of the legislature. In 1874 he was nominated as governor by the prohibition party in Michigan; and in 1876 was again nominated for the same office on the first greenback ticket. He was the author of several works. He died Aug. 19, 1884, in Orion, Mich.
Carpenter, Cyrus Clay
soldier, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 24, 1820, in Hartford, Pa. In 1857 he was elected to the state legislature; in 1861 entered the army, and as brevet colonel rendered important service during the war. In 1866 he was elected register of the state land office at Des Moines, and was re-elected. In 1871 he was elected governor of Iowa. He was a state commissioner of railroads in 1878, and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
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, Esther Bernon
author, was born in 1848 in Rhode Island.
She was a writer of southern Rhode Island, whose South Country Neighbors is a series of sympathetic studies in fiction of Rhode Island types of character. She died in 1893.
Carpenter, Francis Bicknell
painter, author, was born in 1830 in New York. He is a portrait painter of New York city, who painted The Emancipation Proclamation in the Capitol at Washington. He was the author of Six Months in the White House with Abraham Lincoln..
Carpenter, Francis Wood
merchant, manufacturer, was born June 24, 1831, in Seekonk, Mass. He is president of the Congo and Carpenter company, and also the Rhode Island Perkins Horseshoe company. He is also president of the American National bank.
Carpenter, George Moulton
lawyer, jurist, was born April 22, 1844, in Portsmouth, R. I. He was appointed one of a board of commissioners to revise the laws of Rhode Island in 1882; was elected a justice of the supreme court of the state in 1885; and was appointed United States district judge for the district of Rhode Island.
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.
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, Matthew H
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Dec. 22, 1824, in Moretown, Vt. He was for several years a district attorney for the state of Wisconsin, and practiced his profession before the supreme court of the United States. He was elected a senator in congress from Wisconsin for the term commencing in 1869 and ending in 1875, serving on the committees on the judiciary, patents, and revision of laws; and also served as president pro tem of the senate. He was again elected United States senator in 1878 for the term ending in 1885. He died Feb. 24, 1881, in Washington, D. C.
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.