| 词条 | Horace Carpentier |
| 释义 |
|name = Horace Walpole Carpentier |image = |image_size = |alt = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth-date|July 1824}} |birth_place = Galway, New York, United States |death_date = {{death date and age|1918|1|31|1824|7}} |death_place = New York City, New York |body_discovered = |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |residence = |nationality = |ethnicity = |citizenship = |other_names = |known_for = |education = |alma_mater = Columbia College |employer = |occupation = |years_active = |home_town = |salary = |networth = |height = |weight = |title = |term = |predecessor = |successor = |party = |opponents = |boards = |religion = |spouse = |partner = |children = |parents = |relations = |callsign = |awards = |signature = |website = |footnotes = |box_width = }}Horace Walpole Carpentier (1824–1918) was a lawyer and the first mayor of Oakland, California. He also served as president of the Overland Telegraph Company which oversaw the construction of the western portion of the first transcontinental telegraph in the United States.[1] LifeCarpentier was born in Galway, New York in July 1824. He graduated Valedictorian with the Class of 1848 at Columbia College.[2] CaliforniaCarpentier came to California during the Gold Rush, as he is listed as a passenger on the ship Panama in the New York Herald, February 6, 1849. In 1854, he was appointed "Major General" of the California State Militia. On May 4, 1852 Horace Carpentier persuaded the new California state legislature to incorporate Oakland as a town. Then, on May 17, he persuaded the new town's trustees to pass an ordinance "for the disposal of the waterfront belonging to the town of Oakland." That ordinance gave complete, lucrative control of Oakland's waterfront to Carpentier.[3] When this was discovered in 1855 after he had been elected Oakland's first mayor in 1854, he was ousted by an angry citizenry and replaced by Charles Campbell who became Mayor on March 5, 1855.[4] Carpentier presided over the California State Telegraph Company, before heading the Overland Telegraph Company. The Overland was formed in order to construct the western portion of the transcontinental telegraph.[5][6] On October 24, 1861, Carpentier sent the first telegram from the west to the east over the newly completed transcontinental telegraph line. The telegram was addressed to President Abraham Lincoln: "I announce to you that the telegraph to California has this day been completed. May it be a bond of perpetuity between the states of the Atlantic and those of the Pacific". Carpentier notoriously represented members of the Peralta family, the original Spanish land grant owners of the entire region now encompassing Oakland and Berkeley, in various legal proceedings ostensibly initiated to protect their holdings. The end result of these proceedings was that Carpentier himself received large chunks of what remained of their holdings as compensation for his services. Carpentier also acquired most of Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados,[7] and part of Rancho San Ramon. Return to New YorkBy 1888, Carpentier had moved back to New York City.[8][9] He had a second home in Galway in Saratoga County, New York.[10] He was elected to the board of trustees of Columbia University, his alma mater, in 1906, serving until his death.[11] He died at his home on January 31, 1918.[12] Contributing to the Dean Lung endowment at ColumbiaCarpentier contributed $250,000[13] to an endowment that initiated Chinese studies at Columbia University and helped to catalyse broader East Asian studies at the university.[14] This was done in honor of his valet Dean Lung (丁龍), who in 1902 had contributed $12,000 of his savings to the establishment of Chinese Studies at Columbia.[15] To mark the establishment of the foundation of the Dean Lung Chair of Chinese at Columbia, Herbert Giles gave a series of lectures titled "China and the Chinese".[16] Endowed professors include David Der-wei Wang, Madeleine Zelin (current), Luther Carrington Goodrich and Hans Bielenstein.[17] Family lifeCarpentier remained single his entire life, although he seems to have shared a household with his cousin Harriet for many years in Oakland. (Several references mention Harriet as his niece, but the 1880 US Census for Oakland and the 1900 Census for New York show "sister", although in fact she was a second cousin). Their brother Edward also lived with them for a time. The Carpentier home was located in the oldest section of Oakland at Alice and Third Streets.[18] Alice Street was named for his other sister. Carpentier had another brother, James S. Carpentier, in whose name he made a donation to Columbia University. He made another donation in the name of his mother, Henrietta Carpentier,[19] and another in the name of his brother Edward. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph-history.org/transcontinental-telegraph/index.html|title=Wiring A Continent|publisher=|accessdate=2 April 2016}} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box |2. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=hLAWAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA92 Frederick Paul Keppel (1914). Columbia. Oxford University Press.] 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.waterfrontaction.org/learn/league/ch4.htm|title=Chapter 4 - LWVO Study|publisher=|accessdate=2 April 2016}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/oakhist.htm|title=OAKLAND'S EARLY HISTORY|publisher=|accessdate=2 April 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_H6lQWiY8wC&pg=PA101|title=The Story of Telecommunications|publisher=|accessdate=2 April 2016}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/t_telegraph.html|title=IEEE|publisher=|accessdate=2 April 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.usacitiesonline.com/cacountymoragahistory.htm|title=history for Moraga California|publisher=|accessdate=2 April 2016}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://supreme.justia.com/us/127/70/case.html|title=U.S. Supreme Court More v. Steinbach, 127 U.S. 70 (1888)|publisher=Justia & Oyez & Forms WorkFlow|accessdate=2009-01-25}} 9. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=F39SJn66jF0C&pg=PA219 McCaughey, Robert A. (2003) Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004. Columbia University Press. p220] 10. ^{{cite book|author=Booker T. Washington|title=The Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 10: 1909-11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y03oSVVjzLcC&pg=PA438 |date=1 January 1981|publisher=University of Illinois Press| isbn=978-0-252-00800-9| page=438}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhistory/archives/TrusteesTalk.htm |title=Men of Our Type:A Social Profile of the Columbia Trustees in the Butler Era, 1902 - 1945 |last=McCaughey |first=Robert A. |date=December 19, 2000 |accessdate=2009-01-25 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624022416/http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhistory/archives/TrusteesTalk.htm |archivedate=June 24, 2010 |df= }} 12. ^{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE1DD113FE433A25752C2A9649C946996D6CF| title=Carpentier leaves Columbia a Million| date=February 21, 1918| work=The New York Times| accessdate=2009-01-25}} 13. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1931/03/28/dean-lung|title=Dean Lung|website=The New Yorker|access-date=2017-02-05}} 14. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2002/AsianStudies.html|title=Living Legacies|website=www.columbia.edu|access-date=2017-02-05}} 15. ^{{Cite news|url=http://ealac.columbia.edu/department/short-history/|title=Short History - EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES|newspaper=EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-05}} 16. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/china-and-the-chinese-by-herbert-allen-giles|title=China and the Chinese|newspaper=Loyal Books|access-date=2017-02-05}} 17. ^{{Cite news|url=http://ealac.columbia.edu/department/short-history/|title=Short History - EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES|newspaper=EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-05}} 18. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5fUBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA93|title=The Elite Directory for San Francisco and Oakland|publisher=|accessdate=2 April 2016}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0gYVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA525|title=Journal of the American Association of University Women|publisher=|accessdate=2 April 2016}} before = '''new office''' | title = Mayor of Oakland, California | years = 1854—1855 | after = Charles Campbell }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Carpentier, Horace}} 7 : Mayors of Oakland, California|Columbia University alumni|People from Galway, New York|1824 births|1918 deaths|19th-century American lawyers|19th-century American politicians |
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