George Rice Carpenter was a noted educator, scholar and author
Background
He was a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter Family and Edmund Rice of Massachusetts. His father was Charles Carrol Carpenter (born 1836) and mother was Nancy Feronia Rice (b 1840). His father was a Congregational minister who left an account of the final days of the Civil War and was an eyewitness of Abraham Lincoln"s entry into St. Petersburg, Virginia.
George Rice Carpenter was born at the Eskimo River Mission Station on the Labrador Coast where his parents were engaged in pioneer missionary service.
Education
After attending Phillips Academy, Andover, Carpenter entered Harvard where he graduated in 1886.
Career
Carpenter became a Harvard instructor in 1888 and assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1893. Carpenter then became a professor and chairman of English rhetoric at Columbia University in New York where he remained for the duration of his life. He died in New York City in 1909 and was the subject of several articles in salutation.
A library at Columbia is jointly named in his honor.
Carpenter married Mary Seymour of New York in 1890. Carpenter"s daughter Margaret Seymour Carpenter (Margaret Carpenter Richardson) (b 3 April 1893 - d 1973) was herself the author of several short stories and the novel Experiment Perilous, Little Brown & Company, Boston.
(1943). George Rice Carpenter"s publications were copious.
A large number of textbooks were from his hand. Carpenter produced works on Longfellow (1901), Whittier (1903), Whitman (1909), among others listed in the next sections.
Brewster, William T. Columbia University Quarterly, June 1909. Fletcher, Jefferson B. Annual Report of the Dante Society, 1909, pp.
7–9. Steeves, R. Columbia University Quarterly (extensive bibliography), September 1909.
George Rice Carpenter was a descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:
George Rice Carpenter, son of
Nancy Feronia Rice (1840 – ?), daughter of
Ezra Rice (1810 – ?), son of
Edward Rice (1773 – ?), son of
Comfort Rice (1729 – 1816), son of
Lieutenant Gershom Rice, Junior. (1696 – 1781), son of
Gershom Rice (1667 – 1768), son of
Thomas Rice (1625 – 1681), son of
Edmund Rice (1594 – 1663)
His Carpenter ancestry includes:
George Rice Carpenter son of
Review Charles Carroll Carpenter (1836 – ?), son of
Doctor Elijah Woodward Carpenter (1788 – 1855), son of
John Carpenter (1756 – 1843), son of
John Carpenter (1733 – 1821), son of
David Carpenter (1701 – 1787), son of
David Carpenter (1675 – 1701), son of
Samuel Carpenter (1638 – 1682), son of
William Carpenter (abt 1605 – 1658), the immigrant.