Carpenter, Rolla Clinton – Carrington, Edward
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.
Carpenter, William
author, was born in 1830 in England. He was an eccentric English printer and stenographer who removed from England to Baltimore in 1879. He strenuously advocated the theory that the earth is flat, revolving on a central axis with the sun stationary over the center. Among his various writings are: The Earth Not a Globe, by Common Sense; Sir Isaac Newton's Theoretical Astronomy Examined and Refuted by Common Sense; Water not Convex; Proctor's Planet Earth; and Something About Spiritualism. He died in 1896.
Carpenter, William H
soldier, business man, was born July 4, 1844, in Luray, Va. He received his education in the schools of his native city, and at St.
Joseph, Mo. During 1861-65 he served in the confederate service from private to captain. He then traveled extensively as business representative of several large firms. Since 1889 he has been president of the Phoenix Loan association of St Joseph, Mo.; is prominently connected with various other business enterprises, and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Carr, Elias
farmer, governor, was born Feb. 25, 1839, in Edgecombe county, N. C. He completed his education in the university of Virginia and North Carolina. With the exception of the time spent in the confederate army, his life has been pre-eminently that of the agriculturist, managing his large private interests in Edgecombe, his native county. He was the first county president of the Farmers' Alliance; and for two terms was president of the State Alliance. In 1886 he was a delegate from North Carolina to the farmers' national convention at St. Paul; and in 1892 was appointed commissioner to the World's Fair. In 1892 he was elected governor of North Carolina by a majority of thirty thousand, which position he filled with distinction.
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, Joseph M
clergyman, was born March 9, 1836, in Damascus, Ohio.
In 1854 he entered Mount Union college, and graduated therefrom in 1859. The same year he entered the Pittsburg.conference, and since 1880 has been a member of the East Ohio conference of the methodist episcopal church. He secured one hundred thousand dollars for the Mount Union college, together with very valuable grounds and the president's residence. He was chairman of the East Ohio delegation, and of the general missionary committee of the fourth general conference district; is a trustee of Mount Union college; president of the board of trustees of the East Ohio conference; secretary of the Ministerial Relief association of Pittsburg and East Ohio conferences; and has filled numerous other positions in his church. He is now pastor of the Miles Park Avenue church, of Cleveland, Ohio. He is a descendant of Gov. Caleb Carr, whose ancestors came to America in 1635.
Carr, Julian Shakespeare
manufacturer, banker, philanthropist, was born Oct. 12, 1845, in Chapel Hill, N. C.
He graduated from the university of North Carolina, of which institution he is a member of the executive committee of the board of trustees. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Trinity college; and a member of the board of directors of the Oxford asylum. In a 1883-91 he was a delegate from the state at large to the democratic national conventions. He was a delegate to the Ecumenical conference of the Methodism of the World, held in London; and a delegate to the Robert Raikes centennial. Mr. Carr is the president of the following companies: Blackwell's Durham Tobacco company; First National bank of Durham; Golden Belt Manufacturing company; and the Greensboro Female College association. He served in the confederate army in Barringer's brigade, Hampton's corps, in the army of Northern Virginia.
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.
Carr, Nathan T
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in Steuben county, N. Y. In 1858 he was elected a representative in the Michigan state legislature. He entered the union army in 1861 as first lieutenant. In 1863 he moved to Indiana; and was subsequently elected a representative from that state to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy.
Carr, Robert V
journalist, poet, was born July 15, 1877, in Chenoa, Ill.
He received his education at the South Dakota School of Mines. He learned the printing business, and is a successful journalist of Rapid City, S. D. He is the author of numerous poems of merit, and is familiarly known as the Black Hills Poet.
Carr, William Brown
educator, college president, author, was born Feb. 4, 1820, in Leesburg, Va. For over half a century, 1841-92, Prof. Carr has been engaged in educational work as professor and president in various schools and colleges, including Warren Green academy, Va.; New Lisbon institute, Va.; Madison Female college, Ga.; Wesleyan Female college, N. C.; Randolph Macon college, Va.; and president of Petersburg Female college. He is the author of Carr's Plan with English Syntax; The Genealogy of the Carrs; and other works.
Carrell, George Aloysius
Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1803 in Philadelphia, Pa. He performed missionary duty in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, and founded an academy for young ladies. Between 1851 and 1853 he was president of the Purcell Mansion college, Cincinnati. On the erection of the eastern portion of Kentucky into the see of Covington in 1853, Dr. Carrell was made bishop. He died in 1868 in Covington, Ky.
Carrier, Augustus Stiles
educator, author, was born in 1857 in New York. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Chicago; and professor of Hebrew in Mc- Cormick Theological seminary from 1892.
He is the author of The Hebrew Verb, a Series of Tabular Studies.
Carrigain, Philip
lawyer, was born Feb. 20, 1772, in Concord, N. H. He was secretary of state of New Hampshire four years, and also clerk of the senate. He surveyed a great part of the state, of which he published an excellent map, in 1816, and was the first to apply to New Hampshire the name of the granite state.
He died March 16, 1842, in Concord, N. H.
Carrington, Edward
soldier, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1749, in Charlotte county, Va. He was an efficient officer during the revolution; was for some time quartermaster-general of the army under Gen. Greene, in the south, and greatly contributed to the advantage gained over the enemy. He was afterward attached to the army of the north, but previous to the evacuation of Charleston resumed his former station. He was a delegate to the continental congress from Virginia from 1785 to 1786; and was foreman of the jury which tried Aaron Burr for treason. He died Oct. 28, 1810, in Richmond, Va.