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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
George Carpenter

Citizenship
  
American

Role
  
Author


Years active
  
1886–1909

Education
  
Harvard University

Spouse(s)
  
Mary Seymour

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Born
  
25 October 1863 (
1863-10-25
)
Eskimo River Mission Station, Labrador, now part of Canada

Occupation
  
educator, scholar and author

Known for
  
educator, scholar and author

Died
  
April 8, 1909, New York City, New York, United States

Children
  
Margaret Seymour Carpenter

Books
  
Exercises in Rhetoric and Engli, Primer: Language Reader S, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Introduction to Theme‑writing, Elements of Rhetoric and Engli

Residence
  
New York, United States

George Rice Carpenter (October 25, 1863 – April 8, 1909) was a noted educator, scholar and author. He was a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter Family and Edmund Rice of Massachusetts.

Contents

Early life and education

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 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. After attending Phillips Academy, Andover, Carpenter entered Harvard where he graduated in 1886.

Academic career

Carpenter became a Harvard instructor in 1888 and assistant professor at MIT 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.

Family of authors

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 & Co., 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.

Books

  • Carpenter, George Rice. American Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers and a General Introduction, Macmillan, 1898.
  • Brewster, William Tenney and Carpenter, George Rice. Studies in Structure and Style, Macmillan, 1898.
  • Carpenter, George Rice. Walt Whitman, Macmillan, 1909.
  • Carpenter, George Rice. John Greenleaf Whittier, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1909.
  • Carpenter, George Rice. The Episode of the Donna Pietosa, 1889.
  • Carpenter, George Rice, Baker, Franklin J, Scott, Fred N. The Teaching of English in the Elementary and the Secondary School, Longmans, Green & Co. 1903.
  • Carpenter, George Rice, Baker, Franklin Thomas, Owens Jennie Freeborn. Language Reader, Macmillan, 1909.

    • Articles referencing subject

  • 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.

    • Genealogy

    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
  • Lt. Gershom Rice, Jr. (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
  • Rev. Charles Carroll Carpenter (1836 – ?), son of
  • Dr. 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.

    • References

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