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=Carnegie, Andrew.= _S._, 1835- ----. A noted steel-manufacturer of
Pittsburg who came to America in 1845. He has made many important
gifts to his native Scotland and to Pittsburg, and as a writer is
distinguished for the rather exuberant Americanism of his work. An
American Four-in-Hand in Europe; Round the World; Triumphant Democracy,
or Fifty Years’ March of the Republic. _Scr._
=Carnochan, John Murray.= _Ga._, 1817-1887. A New York surgeon of
distinction. Treatise on Congenital Dislocations; Contributions to
Operative Surgery. _Har._
=Carpenter, Edmund Janes.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A journalist of Boston.
A Woman of Shawmut, a Romance of Colonial Times; History of Roger
Williams. _Lit._
=Carpenter, Esther Bernon.= _R. I._, 1848-1893. A writer of southern
Rhode Island, whose South Country Neighbours is a series of sympathetic
studies in fiction of Rhode Island types of character. _Rob._
=Carpenter, Francis Bicknell.= _N. Y._, 1830-1900. A portrait painter
of New York city, who painted The Emancipation Proclamation in the
Capitol at Washington. Six Months in the White House with Abraham
Lincoln.
=Carpenter, Henry Bernard.= _I._, 1840-1890. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston, brother of W. Boyd Carpenter, the Anglican bishop of Ripon.
He wrote principally in verse, his only published books including The
Oatmeal Crusaders; Liber Amoris, a Metrical Romaunt of the Middle Ages;
A Poet’s Last Songs. The last-named volume was issued after his death,
with memorial sketch by J. J. Roche, _infra_. _Hou._
=Carpenter, Stephen Cullen.= _E._, _c._ 17-- -1820. An English
journalist who came to America in 1803 and settled in Charleston.
Memoir of Thomas Jefferson, containing a Concise History of the United
States (1809); An Overland Journey to India, published under the
pseudonym “Donald Campbell.”
=Carpenter, Stephen Haskins.= _N. J._, 1831-1878. A Wisconsin educator,
professor of literature at the University of Wisconsin. Evidences of
Christianity; English of the 14th Century; Introduction to the Study of
Anglo-Saxon; Elements of English Analysis. _Gi._
=Carr, Lucien.= _Mo._, 1829- ----. An archæologist of Cambridge,
assistant curator of the Peabody Museum, 1876-1894. The Mounds of the
Mississippi Valley Historically Considered; Missouri, a brief history
of the State; Prehistoric Remains of Kentucky (with N. S. Shaler,
_infra_). _Clke. Hou._
=Carrier, Augustus Stiles.= _N. Y._, 1857. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Chicago, professor of Hebrew in McCormick Theological Seminary from
1892. The Hebrew Verb, a Series of Tabular Studies.
=Carrington, Henry Beebe.= _Ct._, 1824- ----. A general in the United
States army living in Boston. His principal writings include Crisis
Thoughts; Battles of the American Revolution; Apsaraka, or Indian
Operations on the Plains; Hints to Soldiers Taking the Field; The
Washington Obelisk and its Voices. _See One of a Thousand._ _Bar. Le.
Lip._
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