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Henry Alpheus Peirce Carter also known as Henry Augustus Peirce Carter (1837–1891) was an American businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii. ==Family life== Henry Alpheus Peirce Carter was born August 7, 1837 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was Joseph Oliver Carter (1802–1850), and mother Hannah Trufant Lord (1809–1898). His father was a merchant ship captain, thought to be a descendant of the Thomas Carter family of Massachusetts. Captain Carter left Boston to engage in trade in the Pacific some time in the 1820s. After his 1833 wedding in Honolulu the Carters bought a house and started a family while Captain Carter continued sandalwood trading voyages to China. Shortly after second son Henry was born they sailed to California but returned in 1838. In 1840 the family sailed to Boston via Tahiti. The sons were left to attend school, while Captain Carter purchased his own ship and sailed back to Honolulu with his wife in 1841. However, the Carter ship business had several failures, and by 1849 the sons were sent back to Hawaii. Captain Carter retired from the ship business and started a boarding house called the Mansion House, but he died August 1, 1850. The children needed to support themselves, so a 12-year-old Henry went to San Francisco to work in the California Gold Rush. He never attended high school. Some time later he returned to work in the Honolulu post office, and as a typesetter for the ''Honolulu Advertiser'' newspaper. When about 19 he became a clerk in C. Brewer & Co., a shipping business which was run earlier by Henry A. Peirce, of whom he was probably a namesake. By 1862 he became a full partner in the business. On February 27, 1862 he married Sybil Augusta Judd (1843–1904), daughter of missionary physician turned politician Gerrit P. Judd. They had seven children: #Frances Isabelle Carter was born January 18, 1863. She moved to Massachusetts and married Frederic Morton Crehore (1858–1919) in 1897 . #Charles Lunt Carter was born November 30, 1864 and married Mary Eliza Horton Scott in 1888. He died January 7, 1895 after being shot in the 1895 Counter-Revolution in Hawaii. #George Robert Carter was born December 28, 1866, became Territorial Governor of Hawaii, and died February 11, 1933. #Agnes Carter was born October 15, 1869 and married John Randolf Galt in 1892. #Sybil Augusta Carter was born February 16, 1873 and died July 12, 1874 #Cordelia Judd Carter was born May 18, 1876 and married Charles Atherton Hartwell, son of American Civil War General Alfred S. Hartwell (1836–1912). She died February 21, 1921. #Joshua Dickson Carter was born February 8, 1880 and died young February 20, 1882. His nephew Alfred Wellington Carter (1867–1949) managed the Parker Ranch for many years.〔 His brother Joseph Oliver Carter (1835–1909) married Mary Ladd (1840–1908), daughter of the founder of early trading company Ladd & Co. William Ladd (1807–1863). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry A. P. Carter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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