Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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BIOGRAPHIES. 35 Pottstown, Pa., and the Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn., entering college in the fall of 1888, pursuing the Mechanical Engineering course. His father, VVilliam Lane Carnahan, who was a shoe manufacturer and jobber with the W. L. Carnahan Co., was born March 5, 1837, in Lafayette, Ind., and died June 26, 1897, at Fort VVayne, Ind. He was married November 3, 1864, and resided in Lafayette, Ind. His parents were James G. Carnahan, of Hamilton County, O., and Mar- garet Brown. His antecedents were Robert and XxVilliam Carnahan, Lancaster County, Pa., and James Carnahan, County Antrim, Ireland. H His mother, who was Clara Louise Hanna, was born October 15, 1845, in Fort VVayne, Ind. Herd parents and antecedents were James Bayles Hanna and Mary King Fairfield, and Samuel Hanna and Eliza Taylor, all of Fort Wfayne. He has three sisters: Louise Carnahan Deming, Clara C., and Virginia C. . He married Constance Lumbard, daughter of Sidney Corliss Lumbard, a real estate dealer of Fort VVayne, June 18, 1896, at Fort Vlfayne, Ind., and has three children: Robert Hanna, Ir., born April II, 1897, VVilliam Lumbard, born March 22, 1902, and Sidney Lumbard, born May 30, 1905. All were born in Fort Wayiie. lVIZl1'Cl'1'2O, 1906, Carnahan was made President of the Carnahan-Sherwood Co., designers and manufacturers of systems of accounting and factory cost systems, also audit- ing and accounting. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Episcopal church, and has held various church positions including Vestryman, Treasurer, Diocesan finance committee, and delegate to State and National conventions. He is also a member of the ,Kelciouga and Anthony XIVHYIIC clubs off Fort Wfayne, Ind., and the Country, University and Marion clubs, and 56 K. of P. of Indianapolis, Ind. Since leaving college up to IQO3 he was in theawholesale shoe business in Fort Wfayne, from

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34 CLASS OF ISQI S., YALE -COLLEGE. course. Before entering Yale he attended schools at St. Louis, Mo., Rochester, N. Y., Caledonia, N. Y., Peekskill Military Academy Peekskill, N. Y., Wfashington High School, Wfashington, D. C., and Friends Seminary, New York City. His father, Angus Cameron, a lawyer, and graduate of the Yale Law School QBachelor of Law 18675, of St. Louis, Mo., Rochester, N. Y., and Brooklyn, N. Y., was born June 28, 1848, in Edwardsville, Ill. He was of Scotch descent, his grandfather having come from Scotland. He was mar- ried February 23, 1870, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 18, 1888. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary Ellen Wfilson, was born january 27, 1849, at St. Louis, Mo. He has one brother, john H. CUniversity of Buffalo D.D.S., 1896j, also two sisters: Florence, who died in June, 1897, and Margaret VV. He married Mary Louise Moore, daughter of the late Robert Moore, a coal merchant, january 29, 1902, at Rochester, Ni. Y. They have two children: Allen Vtfilson, born August 5, 1903, and Robert Moore, born November 20, 1904, at Caledonia, N. Y. In May, 1906, Cameron went into the concrete construc- tion business, and is now President and General Manager of the company. In politics he is an Independent Republican. Since leaving Yale he has been 'connected with a Chicago electrical manufacturing company, street railway track work, five years as assistant engineer with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., and ten years as con- tractor and builder, with special reference to concrete construction in Caledonia, N. Y., Rochester, N. Y., and New York City. Busmess addrcfss: 150 Nassau St., New York City. Home address: 2104 Beverley Road, Brooklyn, N. Y. ROBERT I-IANNA CARNAHAN was born April 25, 1868, in Lafayette, Ind. He prepared at the Hill School,

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36 CLASS OF 1891 s., YALE COLLEGE. 1903 to 1906 he was engaged in blank book manufacturing, and since March 20, 1906, has been with the Carnahan-Shen Wood Co., in Indianapolis. Bizzszflzess add1'ess.' 229 East Qhio St., Indianapolis, Ind. Home address: The Victoria,i' Indianapolis, Ind. HENRY ALBERT CARPENTER was born Septem- ber 26, 1869, in Wfillimantic, Conn. I-Ie prepared at the high school of Wfillimantic, and entered college at the beginning of Freshman year, taking the Mechanical Engi- neering course. I-Iis father, Charles E. Carpenter, was born February 9, 1833, at Attleboro, Mass., and was a son of Noah Avery and Abbey Carpenter Cdaughter of John Carpenter and Nancy Bishopj. I-Iis antecedents were John Carpenter, son of Asa Carpenter and Abigail Follett, Asa, son of Stephen Carpenter and Dorothy VVhittaker, Stephen, son Noah Carpenter and Sarah Johnson. Noah Carpenter was at son of VX7illiam, Whose father, Vtfilliam, and Wife, Abigail, came from England in 1638. QSee Carpenter I-Iistory, Vol. I.j Charles E. Carpenter was married june 25, 1861, and resides in Wfillimantic, Conn. He is Very prominent in public school affairs, and was Mayor of the City of Wfillimantic. I'Iis mother, whose maiden name was Susan Em-ily Pros- ser, was born December 20, 1836, at Phenix, R. I., and died December 20, 1902, at VVillimantic, Conn. She was the daughter of Louise Colvin and Oliver Prosser. Louise Colvin was born in Coventry, R. I., her people being English. Oliver Prosser was born in Richmond, R. I. I-Iis ancestors were English and Welch. I-Ie has two brothers: Harold Eugene CYale 398 S., Ph.B.j and A. Dell, also one sister, Mary C. fWillima1itic I-Iigh School and Connecticut State Normal Schoolj. IrIe married Iessamine Nelson NVQIICCF, daughter of I-Ienry Ball Wfalker, of Wfhippany, N. I., june 12, 1895, at