Frank George Carpenter (Mansfield, Ohio, May 8, 1855, – Nanking, June 18, 1924[1][2]) was a journalist, traveler, travel writer, photographer, lecturer. Carpenter was a writer of geography textbooks and lecturer on geography, and wrote a series of books called Carpenter’s World Travels. His writings helped popularize cultural anthropology and geography.
Carpenter was born in Mansfield, Ohio, son of George F. and Jennette L. Carpenter.[3] He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Wooster in 1877.[3] He began working as a journalist for the Cleveland Leader in 1879, and in 1882 he moved to Washington DC as the correspondent there.[3] He married Joanna D. Condict of Mansfield in 1883.[3] In 1884 he became a correspondent for the American Press Association.[3] In 1877 he worked for the New York World.[3] By this point his writings were being widely syndicated to other newspapers and magazines around the USA.[3]