BIOGRAPHY OF FRANK PIERCE CARPENTER of Manchester NH
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SOURCE: One Thousand New Hampshire Notables: Brief Biographical Sketches of
New Hampshire Men and Women, by Frances Matilda Abbott, 1919, Rumford Printing
Company.
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FRANK PIERCE CARPENTER
 Merchant, manufacturer, banker, b. Chichester NH Oct. 28, 1845, son of David M.
and Mary (Perkins) Carpenter; educated public schools of Concord, NH (high school
1863); went to Manchester in 1864 where he entered the flour and grain business;
in 1885 bought the Amoskeag Paper Mills of which he was president; treasurer of
Mechanics' Savings Bank; director, Amoskeag National Bank; director, N.H. Fire
Insurance Co., and member of Finance committee; director, Amoskeag Mfg. Co.,
vice-president and director, Burgess Sulphite Fibre Co. of Berlin NH; director of
the Boston and Maine Railroad, and Federal Trustee of the Boston and Maine stock 
owned by N.Y., N.H., and H.R.R. Co.; president of the Morris Plan Co.; regular
attendant at the Franklin St. Congregational Church, Manchester, and president of
its Society; Democrat; chairman of commission which erected statue of Franklin
Pierce in 1914; received honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth College in 1915;
the donor of the Carpenter Memorial Library to the city of Manchester, in memory of
his wife. [This building, by far the largest and best equipped of any city library
in the state, compares in dignity and beauty with the buildings of the N.H.
Historical Library and the N.H. State Library at Concord.--Editor.] m. Sept. 12, 1872
Elenora Blood, daughter of Arestas Blood, b. Feb 14, 1875 who m. Alice Burnham;
Mary Elizabeth, b. May 11, 1882 m. Charles B. Manning; four grandchildren. Residence,
Manchester, N.H.

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