Background
Carpenter, Ford Ashman was born on March 25, 1868 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Lebbaeus Ross and Charlotte (Eaton) Carpenter.
Carpenter, Ford Ashman was born on March 25, 1868 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Lebbaeus Ross and Charlotte (Eaton) Carpenter.
Educated Dilworth Academy. Carson Astronomical Observatory. United States Balloon and Airship Schools, et cetera
Doctor of Laws, Whittier (California) College, 1913.
Doctor of Science, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, 1921.
With United States Weather Service various stations, 1888-1919. Special observer, 1940-1941. Manager department meteorology and aeronautics, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1919-1941.
Honorary lecturer, summer sessions University of California 1914-1916, 1939-1941.
Lecturer, United States Army Aviation School, San Diego, 1915, Monterey Military Encampment, 1916-1917. Member of faculty (lecturer meteorology) Southern branch University of California, 1919-1930.
Lecturer on meteorology, Air Service, War Department, 1915-1944, Babson Institute, 1921-1935, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, 1923-1938, New York University, West Point Military Academy, Annapolis Naval Academy, Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, Field Museum, 1925-1938, Goodyear-Zeppelin Company, 1926-1929, War College (Washington), et cetera, Meteorological adviser Palos Verdes Estates, 1914-1920, Pauba Rancho, 1921-1931, Transport World Airlines, 1927-1930, Santa Fe Railway Company, 1922-1935, American Airways, Transport World Airlines, United Airlines, 1927-1938, Los Angeles Municipal Airport, 1927, Hollywood Bowl, 1928, America-Hawaiian Steamship Company, 1934-1940. Climatological adviser to Frank A. Vanderlip, 1927-1937.
Selected and surveyed Los Angeles Municipal Airport, 1927.
Served as private, Signal corpus, United States army, 1888. Member 8th International Geography Congress, Washington, District of Columbia, 1904, International Congress Tuberculosis, Washington, District of Columbia, 1908. Member photographic committee standards, United States Department of Agriculture, 1908.
Climatological commissioner Seattle Exposition (gold medal for meteorological exhibit), 1909.
Member Pan American Medical Congress, 1915, 1st International Aeronautical Congress (vice president), Omaha, 1921. Past fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Meteorological and Geography Societies
(London), American Seismological Society, American Association University professors, Sons of the American Revolution Mason (32°, Shriner). Clubs: University, Sunset, Scribes (Los Angeles, California).