John Carpenter (bishop)
John Carpenter (1399–1476) was an English Bishop, Provost, and University Chancellor.
Read more about John Carpenter (bishop): Early Life, Bishop and Chancellor, The Church At Westbury On Trym, Coat of Arms
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“Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”
—Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 2:10.
“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)