. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . REESE CAKHEXTER the location with judgment, recognizingits natural adaptation to fine landscape and archi-tectural effects, he foresaw the ultimate physicalbeauty of the developed project, and bent his 44 .I/AW OF .XKir WiRK^MAXJ/ATTAX SECTIOX energies to the enterprise. He is now comptrollerof the Cemetery ; and the ideal, whichwas to him a vivid reality at
. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . REESE CAKHEXTER the location with judgment, recognizingits natural adaptation to fine landscape and archi-tectural effects, he foresaw the ultimate physicalbeauty of the developed project, and bent his 44 .I/AW OF .XKir WiRK^MAXJ/ATTAX SECTIOX energies to the enterprise. He is now comptrollerof the Cemetery ; and the ideal, whichwas to him a vivid reality at the start seven yearsago, is being rajjidly actualized. He is also inter-ested in the Forest Lake cemetery at Washington,D. C. ; ill the Druid Ridyie ccmeterv at Baltimore,. FEJiSOXAL CHJiO-yOLOGY—Reese Car-/>e/ifer 7oas born at Mile Square (^nmci Armonk),Weshhester (oiiiity, N. Y., December 32, 18^7 ;7ias educated in district schools ; engaged in businessas a butcher, 186^-67; loent to New York city in1S(17, and established an iron business; marriedCaroline L. Ttnonsend of Armonk, N. Y.,Xorember 2, 1S70 ; has been actively con-nected with the management of Iariouscemeteries since 1890. JOSEPH H. CHOAll-: Md. ; in the I^ke Side cemetery at ButTalo : andin the Lake Side cemetery at Erie, Penn. .\11 otthese are organized imder the same new systemused in the successful development ot the Kensicocemetery. While Mr. Carpenter was ciirrying on the in New York he lived in Brooklyn, andwas a member of Dr. Noali Schencks church — oldSt. .Anns on the Heights : and was for yeans anactive and efiective worker in promoting all theundertakings of the church. ^Ir. Carpenter nowlives in New York during the winter, but spends hissummers at his countr
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