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America in Hawaii: A History of United States Influence in the Hawaiian Islands 1899
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Edmund Carpenter was the author of short stories and occasional poems.
Background
Edmund Janes Carpenter was born on October 16, 1845 North Attleboro, Massachussets, United States; On his father's side, he was descended from William Carpenter who came to Weymouth, Massachussets, in 1638, in the ship Bevis. On his mother's side he was descended from Jonathan Walcott, who was in Salem at least as early as 1662. He was the son of George Moulton Carpenter, a minister, and, after his removal to Providence, Rhode Island, about 1855, a presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who, in 1843, married Sarah Lewis Walcott. They had two sons. The elder, also named George Moulton, was graduated from Brown University in 1864, practised law, became a justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and afterward a federal judge.
Education
Edmund Janes was graduated from Brown in 1866, and received the degree of Litt. D. from that institution in 1905.
Career
After graduation, Edmund tried his hand at several kinds of business, and finally found work to his liking, writing for the Providence Journal. Afterward, he worked successively on the New Haven Palladium, and on three Boston papers, the Globe, Advertiser, and Transcript. At the time of his death he had been writing for the last-named paper for twenty years.
He died in Milton, Massachussets, which had been his home for many years.
His earliest book, A Woman of Shawmut (1891), published originally in serial form in the New England Magazine, was a romance, gracefully told, of colonial times; was based in part upon historical fact; and was the first fruit of Carpenter's interest in the story of the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth settlements. The book was dedicated to William Dean Howells, to whom, in a dedicatory letter, Carpenter made acknowledgments for suggestion as well as for encouragement. Next, he aided William Kent in preparing the latter's Memoirs and Letters of James Kent (1898). With the acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands, Carpenter wrote America in Hawaii (1899), a compact and useful historical statement of the relations between the islands and the United States which led to annexation. The American Advance (1903) is a similar statement of the territorial expansion of the United States. A different interest is revealed in his Hellenic Tales (1906), stories for boys and girls, published also the same year under the title Long Ago in Greece. In later works Carpenter returned to his studies of New England colonial history. His Roger Williams (1909), based on original sources, presented in fluent style a well tempered rather than controversial account. Following this study came The Pilgrims and Their Monument (1918), the latter inscribed "To the memory of my far-away kinswoman, Alice Carpenter, wife of Governor Bradford. "
Achievements
His chief works were : A Woman of Shawmut (1891), Memoirs and Letters of James Kent (1898). With the acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands, America in Hawaii (1899), The American Advance (1903), Hellenic Tales (1906), Roger Williams (1909), The Pilgrims and Their Monument (1918).
