William Henry Carpenter (1821–1885), was U.S. Consul to Fuzhou, China, during the American Civil War years. He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln in March, 1861, and recalled by President Andrew Johnson in December, 1865.
Personal
Carpenter was a son of Erastus and Mary (née Taylor) Carpenter, born in 1821 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, where his father was an early merchant. He married Sevira Wethey in 1848, with whom he had two children before her untimely death in 1864. ==References==