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American diplomat
William Henry Carpenter (1821–1885), was U.S.
Consul to
Fuzhou , China, during the
American Civil War years. He was appointed by President
Abraham Lincoln in March, 1861,
[1] and recalled by President
Andrew Johnson in December, 1865.
[2]
Prior to his appointment to the consulship, Carpenter was proprietor of a
livery stable in his hometown of
Auburn ,
Cayuga ,
New York and was active in local civic matters, serving as
postmaster of
Fleming village in the early 1850s,
[3]
state commissioner for development of the
salt springs at
Montezuma, New York from 1858,
[3] on the first
board of directors for the city
waterworks company from 1859,
[4] and as a founding member of the Cayuga County Historical Society in 1877.
[5] He was sometimes styled "
Colonel ", a rank-equivalent title from his service as a consul.
Carpenter also was active in state politics, identifying with the
Republican Party in its formative years, and supporting New York Governor
William H. Seward , 12th
Governor of New York ,
United States Senator and
United States Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, who became a lifelong friend.
[6] After his service in China, Carpenter retired to Auburn, where he lived until his death at the age of 64, on Sunday, October 25, 1885.
[6]
Personal
Carpenter was a son of Erastus and Mary (née Taylor) Carpenter, born in 1821 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, where his father was an early merchant.
[7]
[8] He married Sevira Wethey in 1848, with whom he had two children before her untimely death in 1864.
[9]
References
^ Adelaide R. Hasse: Index to United States Documents Relating to Foreign Affairs, 1828-1861 , In Three Parts, Part II—R-Z, Washington, D.C.: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921,
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106019844791 , p. 1716.
^ Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America from December 5, 1864, to February 6, 1866, Inclusive , Vol. XIV—In Two Parts, Part I, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1887,
http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llej/014/llej014.sgm , p. 309.
^
a
b Elliot G. Storke & Jas. H. Smith: History of Cayuga County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers , D. Mason & Company, Syracuse, N.Y., Truair, Smith & Bruce, Printers, Journal Office, Syracuse, N.Y., 1879,
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/elliot-g-storke/history-of-cayuga-county-new-york--with-illustrations-and-biographical-sketche-rot/page-88-history-of-cayuga-county-new-york--with-illustrations-and-biographical-sketche-rot.shtml , p. 380.
^ Joel H. Monroe: Historical Records of a Hundred and Twenty Years, Auburn, N.Y. , W. F. Humphrey, Printer, Geneva, N.Y., 1913,
https://archive.org/details/historicalrecord00monro , p. 186.
^ Cayuga County Historical Society: Collections , Number 6, Jas. W. Burroughs, Book & Commercial Printer, Auburn, N.Y., 1889,
https://archive.org/stream/collectionsofcay07cayu/collectionsofcay07cayu_djvu.txt , pp. 5-6.
^
a
b The [New York, N.Y.] Sun , October 27, 1885, Vol. LIII, No. 57,
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1885-10-27/ed-1/seq-1/ , p. 1.
^ Storke & Smith, 1879,
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/elliot-g-storke/history-of-cayuga-county-new-york--with-illustrations-and-biographical-sketche-rot/page-88-history-of-cayuga-county-new-york--with-illustrations-and-biographical-sketche-rot.shtml , p. 433.
^ Mrs. Deborah Bronson: "Recollections of My Early Life In Auburn" in Collections of Cayuga County Historical Society , Auburn, N.Y., Number Six, 1888, Jas. W. Burroughs, Book & Commercial Printer, Auburn, N.Y.,
https://archive.org/stream/collectionsofcay07cayu/collectionsofcay07cayu_djvu.txt , p. 81.
^ Erik Quist: The Quist Family ,
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=quedkr4&id=I2237 , Updated: 2009-06-18.