Biography

He was born in Connecticut, on April 23, 1855 to Daniel Penfield and Sophia Young. He was the United States

United States

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 vice consul

Vice Consul

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 in London in 1885.

He married Katharine Albert McMurdo Welles (c1855-1905) in 1892. He became the United States

United States

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 diplomatic agent to Egypt

Egypt

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 from 1893 to 1897.

She died in 1905 and in 1907 he published the travelogue East of Suez

Suez

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: Ceylon, India

India

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, China

China

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 and Japan

Japan

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describing his journeys through those countries. In 1908 he married Anne Weightman Walker.

He becamethe United States

United States

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 Ambassador

Ambassador

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 to Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

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 from 1913 to 1917.

Penfield died on June 19, 1922 at his home on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan

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 of "congestion of the brain". He was buried at Kensico Cemetery

Kensico Cemetery

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 in Valhalla, New York

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External links

• Frederic Courtland Penfield at Flickr
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