Francis W. Carpenter

Francis Wood Carpenter (June 24, 1831 – 1922) was a prominent businessman and merchant in Providence, Rhode Island.[1]

He was born in Seekonk, Massachusetts to Edmund Carpenter, a blacksmith, and Lemira Tiffany Carpenter. He was the president of Congdon and Carpenter, an iron and steel company which was founded in 1792, and operated in Providence into the 1980s.[2] He was also the president of the Rhode Island Perkins Horse Shoe Company, the Quidnick Manufacturing Company, the Boston District Messenger Company, the Postal District Messenger Company of Providence, and the American National Bank. He was a director of the Peoples Savings Bank in Providence, the Corliss Safe and Vault Door Company, the Providence Washington Insurance Company, and the Union Mutual Insurance Company. He was a President of the Providence Commercial Club and of the Providence YMCA.

Carpenter was very influential as chairman of the committee on the construction of a new building for the Central Congregational Church in 1893. He hired the same architects, Carrère and Hastings of New York to design his own house next to the church, which is now Hamilton House.[3]

He married Anna Davis Barney in 1853, and had six children before her death in 1864. He married Harriet Zerviah Pope in 1867 and had four children.

He is buried with his parents and both of his wives in the Newman Cemetery in East Providence, Rhode Island.

References

  1. ↑ Lennon, Sheila. "Finery on Easter, when and where?". The Providence Journal.
  2. ↑ ""Lost Providence" update". Architecture Here and There.
  3. ↑ Lennon, Sheila. "Finery on Easter, when and where?". The Providence Journal.


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