William Lewis Carpenter (January 13, 1844 at Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York – July 10, 1898 at Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York) was a U.S. Army Officer, naturalist and a geologist who helped document the minerals and resources of the Black Hills of South Dakota which inadvertently led to the Great Sioux War of 1876.
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13 January 1844 Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York, USA
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Died |
10 July 1898 (aged 54) Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York, US
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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