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Note: N188 Hattie attended Ohio State University and later became the first woman principal of Miami Senior High School, Miami, Florida. She was associate editor of the Miami Metropolis, later the Miami Daily News. She never married. The 1900 census for Dade Co., FL listed her as a language teacher and private tutor and in 1902 she received her Florida license to teach 3rd grade. In 1904 she was teaching Latin, Greek, Spanish and French lessons. In1907-1910, she served as the first woman principal of Miami Senior High School. The school was accredited for the first time under her principalship, her proudest accomplishment. From1910-1923, she served as the associate editor of the Miami Metropolis, later the Miami Daily News. Later, she resigned to do free-lance writing. She was offered the assistant editorship of Household Magazine in Topeka, Kansas, but refused because she did not want to leave Miami. She never married. (Obituary in the Miami Herald). Hattie Harrison Carpenter - #1814 - #23328- County 23, ?? 2, 8/1956
1920 Pcnt. 10, Miami, Dade Co., Florida census 314 Seventh St., Family #147 Naomi Carpenter, head, renting, age 78, widow, b. Ohio Grace, daughter, 49, single Daisy, daughter, 42, single Hattie, daughter, 39, single, associate editor, Metropolis
1930 Pcnt. 38, Miami, Dade Co. census 59 SE 6th St, Family#147 Grace Carrpenter, head, owned $15,000 home, owned a radio, age 58, single, b. in Ohio Daisy Carpenter, sister, age 54, single, b. Ohio Hattie Carpenter, sister, age 50, single, b. Ohio
1938 Polk’s Greater Miami, Dade Co., Florida, City Directory Hattie H. Carpenter 59 6th St SE (from S. Miami av east to 1st av
1905 "Miami was a small town still. Miss Hattie Carpenter, who taught the few high school students in the single grammar school, bicycling home to Brickell hammock with a beefsteak in her basket, was chased by a panther." Majory Stoneman Douglas Everglades: River of Grass
FOOTPRINTS June 17, 1990 By James C. Clark of The Orlando Sentinel Staff Teacher Hattie Carpenter came to Florida in 1900. She settled in Miami and took the examination for her teaching certificate. She later wrote, ''I took the examination that spring and I guess I had the lowest grade ever given any human being down there. . . . They told me to trace a water route from Kissimmee to Key West. I couldn't even pronounce Kissimmee, and I didn't know where it was anyway. . . . Somehow they gave me a certificate, I don't think I deserved it.'' But Carpenter had written some articles about Florida for an Ohio newspaper. The articles were not very flattering and local residents demanded she be fired. Instead she was transferred to a new school in Miami. To maintain discipline, she told her students to act as though they were hunting deer at all times. Eventually Carpenter became principal of the school. But after three years she was discouraged with the lack of resources and quit education to become a reporter for the Miami Metropolis.
History of The Miami News (1896-1987) By Howard Kleinberg BoBo Dean became sole owner of The Metropolis on October 17, 1914. On that day, Bendle's name disappeared from the masthead and only Dean's remained - as Editor-Manager. He fought against America's participation in World War I, ably helped by his crusading writer Hattie Carpenter, who had been principal at Miami High School but quit in a dispute with the school board. --------------- There had been hurricanes in Miami in earlier years but not for some time. According to weather bureau records, the last hurricane to hit Miami was in 1906. Almost all the people living in 1926 Miami had never experienced a powerful hurricane when, on September 18, they were tested. The damage was huge, as first reports in the September 18, 1926, Miami News indicated: HURRICANE HITS MIAMI Tidal Wave Sweeps Bayshore Drive, Wrecking Boats Fear Felt for Miami Beach; Pounded by Heavy Sea Miami was laid waste Saturday by a raging hurricane, attended by a gale of more than 130 miles an hour velocity, 22 TEQUESTA and followed by one of the most disastrous tidal waves ever experienced on the Atlantic Coast. Miami Beach was isolated from the mainland and no word has been received as to the effect of the storm there. It is feared that a monster tidal wave has swept across the entire island city. Newspapermen crawled from Miami Beach at 3 a.m. with a story of pounding surf, broken communication and distressed boats. It was the last information to reach Miami. Scores of houses in Hialeah were reported leveled by the hurricane and under water from the overflow of the canal. Coral Gables was cut off from all outside communication at 4:40 a.m. Saturday. Continued efforts to reach the city by wire were impossible ... At least 114 died and thousands were left homeless. The city, especially along the waterfront, was flattened by the winds and tidal surge. The Miami Daily News & Metropolis published a one-page edition with a hand-run press on September 18 and again on September 19, all the way publishing hand-cranked mimeographed bulletins through the days and nights as a public service. The September 20 edition of the paper was printed, as a courtesy, by The Miami Herald. 24. James M. Cox, Journey Through My Years. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946.) p. 314.
Book Title: Historical Sketches And Sidelights Of Miami, Florida CHAPTER X WOMEN IDENTIFIED WITH COMMUNITY SERVICE Credit for the substitution of a modern, fireproof building in place of the said frame buildings is due to a group of public-spirited women, led by Mrs. John Sewell, who had associated themselves in an organization that was known as "The Women's School Improvement Association," with the following officers: Mrs. John Sewell, president; Mrs. T. V. Moore, first vice-president; Mrs. J. E. Lummus, second vice-president; Mrs. Isidor Cohen, treasurer; Mrs. Dr. Edwin Pugh, secretary. Miss Hattie Carpenter, who was then serving her ninth year as high-school principal, favored the segregation of the grammar and high schools against the judgment of the said ofganization. Her idea on the subject, however, eventually bore fruit in the form of a fine high-school building which had been erected on Northwest Third Avenue, opposite the city park
Miami's Clergy And Press, Chapter 11 1925 Of Miami's women journalists none has been more closely identified with the progress of this community than Miss Hattie Carpenter, who, for more than a decade, filled the editorial chair of the Metropolis (now the Daily News). Her familiarity with educational matters gained during her incumbency of the office of high school principal found illuminating expression in the editorials of that paper. Miss Carpenter severed her connection with that paper upon its change of ownership.
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