George Rice Carpenter was a noted educator, scholar and author. He was a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter Family

Rehoboth Carpenter Family

The Rehoboth Carpenter family is an American family that helped settle the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1644.The first immigrant and founder of this line was William Carpenter The Rehoboth Carpenter family is an American family that helped settle the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts in...

 and Edmund Rice

Edmund Rice (1638)

Edmund Rice , was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony who was born in Suffolk, England, and lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire prior to sailing with his family to America. He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638, presumed to be first...

 of Massachusetts.

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

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

's entry into Petersburg, Virginia

Petersburg, Virginia

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.

George Rice Carpenter was born at the Eskimo River Mission Station on the Labrador

Labrador

Labrador is the distinct, northerly region of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It comprises the mainland portion of the province, separated from the island of Newfoundland by the Strait of Belle Isle...

 Coast where his parents were engaged in pioneer missionary service. After attending Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy is a selective, co-educational independent boarding high school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate year...

, 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

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 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 Seymour Carpenter

Margaret Seymour Carpenter, born April 3, 1893, died March 30, 1987 at Boston, Massachusetts, was the author of the novel Experiment Perilous , a New York Times Bestseller in 1943. The novel was subsequently produced by RKO Radio Pictures as a film of the same name, Experiment Perilous, starring...

 (Margaret Carpenter Richardson) (b. 3 April 1893 - d. 1973) was herself the author of several short stories and the novel Experiment Perilous

Experiment Perilous

Experiment Perilous is a 1944 melodrama set at the turn of the 20th century. The film is based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter and directed by Jacques Tourneur. Albert S. D'Agostino, Jack Okey, Darrell Silvera, and Claude E. Carpenter were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art...

, 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

Edmund Rice (1638)

Edmund Rice , was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony who was born in Suffolk, England, and lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire prior to sailing with his family to America. He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638, presumed to be first...

, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony

Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The territory administered by the colony included much of present-day central New England, including portions...

, 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
  Edmund Rice (1638)
  Edmund Rice , was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony who was born in Suffolk, England, and lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire prior to sailing with his family to America. He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638, presumed to be first...
  
   (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
  Rehoboth Carpenter Family
  The Rehoboth Carpenter family is an American family that helped settle the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1644.The first immigrant and founder of this line was William Carpenter The Rehoboth Carpenter family is an American family that helped settle the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts in...
  
  (abt 1605 – 1658), the immigrant.