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Edmund Janes Carpenter

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Born
October 15 1845
Died
2020 02 19241924
Carpenter, Edmund Janes , journalist and author, found in his New England background and ancestry absorbing interests to which he gave expression in several of his printed books. On his father's side, he was descended from William Carpenter who came to Weymouth, Mass., in 1638, in the ship Bevis. On his mother's side he was descended from Jonathan Walcott, who was in Salem at least as early as 1662. He, himself, was born in North Attleboro, Mass., the son of George Moulton Carpenter, a minister, and, after his removal to Providence, R.I., about 1855, a presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who, in 1843, married Sarah Lewis Walcott. They had two sons. The elder, also named George Moulton, was graduated from Brown University in 1864, practised law, became a justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and afterward a federal judge. Edmund Janes was graduated from Brown in 1866, and received the degree of Litt.D. from that institution in 1905. After graduation, he tried his hand at several kinds of business, and finally found work to his liking, writing for the Providence Journal. Afterward, he worked successively on the New Haven Palladium, and on three Boston papers, the Globe, Advertiser, and Transcript. At the time of his death he had been writing for the last-named paper for twenty years. In 1873, he was married to Lydia Etta Snow of Providence, by whom he had six children. He died in Milton, Mass., which had been his home for many years.

Carpenter had a versatile mind and a facile pen. He was the author of short stories and occasional poems; contributed to magazines for young people, such as Wide Awake and St. Nicholas, and also to other magazines; made translations; wrote book reviews, editorials, and a number of books. His earliest book, A Woman of Shawmut , published originally in serial form in the New England Magazine, was a romance, gracefully told, of colonial times; was based in part upon historical fact; and was the first fruit of Carpenter's interest in the story of the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth settlements. The book was dedicated to William Dean Howells, to whom, in a dedicatory letter, Carpenter made acknowledgments for suggestion as well as for encouragement. Next, he aided William Kent in preparing the latter's Memoirs and Letters of James Kent . With the acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands, Carpenter wrote America in Hawaii , a compact and useful historical statement of the relations between the islands and the United States which led to annexation. The American Advance is a similar statement of the territorial expansion of the United States. A different interest is revealed in his Hellenic Tales , stories for boys and girls, published also the same year under the title Long Ago in Greece. In later works Carpenter returned to his studies of New England colonial history. His Roger Williams , based on original sources, presented in fluent style a well tempered rather than controversial account. Following this study came The Pilgrims and Their Monument , the latter inscribed "To the memory of my far-away kinswoman, Alice Carpenter, wife of Governor Bradford."
-- William Adams Slade

Edmund Janes Carpenter

3.3/5 ( ratings)
Born
October 15 1845
Died
2020 02 19241924
Carpenter, Edmund Janes , journalist and author, found in his New England background and ancestry absorbing interests to which he gave expression in several of his printed books. On his father's side, he was descended from William Carpenter who came to Weymouth, Mass., in 1638, in the ship Bevis. On his mother's side he was descended from Jonathan Walcott, who was in Salem at least as early as 1662. He, himself, was born in North Attleboro, Mass., the son of George Moulton Carpenter, a minister, and, after his removal to Providence, R.I., about 1855, a presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who, in 1843, married Sarah Lewis Walcott. They had two sons. The elder, also named George Moulton, was graduated from Brown University in 1864, practised law, became a justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, and afterward a federal judge. Edmund Janes was graduated from Brown in 1866, and received the degree of Litt.D. from that institution in 1905. After graduation, he tried his hand at several kinds of business, and finally found work to his liking, writing for the Providence Journal. Afterward, he worked successively on the New Haven Palladium, and on three Boston papers, the Globe, Advertiser, and Transcript. At the time of his death he had been writing for the last-named paper for twenty years. In 1873, he was married to Lydia Etta Snow of Providence, by whom he had six children. He died in Milton, Mass., which had been his home for many years.

Carpenter had a versatile mind and a facile pen. He was the author of short stories and occasional poems; contributed to magazines for young people, such as Wide Awake and St. Nicholas, and also to other magazines; made translations; wrote book reviews, editorials, and a number of books. His earliest book, A Woman of Shawmut , published originally in serial form in the New England Magazine, was a romance, gracefully told, of colonial times; was based in part upon historical fact; and was the first fruit of Carpenter's interest in the story of the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth settlements. The book was dedicated to William Dean Howells, to whom, in a dedicatory letter, Carpenter made acknowledgments for suggestion as well as for encouragement. Next, he aided William Kent in preparing the latter's Memoirs and Letters of James Kent . With the acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands, Carpenter wrote America in Hawaii , a compact and useful historical statement of the relations between the islands and the United States which led to annexation. The American Advance is a similar statement of the territorial expansion of the United States. A different interest is revealed in his Hellenic Tales , stories for boys and girls, published also the same year under the title Long Ago in Greece. In later works Carpenter returned to his studies of New England colonial history. His Roger Williams , based on original sources, presented in fluent style a well tempered rather than controversial account. Following this study came The Pilgrims and Their Monument , the latter inscribed "To the memory of my far-away kinswoman, Alice Carpenter, wife of Governor Bradford."
-- William Adams Slade

Books from Edmund Janes Carpenter

The Mayflower Pilgrims

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Great Epochs in American History, Vol. 10 of 10: Described by Famous Writers from Columbus to Roosevelt

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A Woman of Shawmut, Romance of Romance (Classic Reprint)

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The Pilgrims and their monument

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The American Advance: A Study in Territorial Expansion (Classic Reprint)

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