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Up for sale a RARE! "Walt Whitman" George Rice Carpenter Hand Signed 2X5 Card.
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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. 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. 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. 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.
