Carrington finished highschool at the age of 15 and went to work for several years before he went to Princeton from which he received his Bachelors of Litt. and Masters of Arts in 1907 & 1908 respectively. While there he became fast friends with Professor Edgar Odell Lovett and later served as the professor's administrative assistant on that gentleman's European tour of universities. Lovett was preparing to become the first President of Rice University in Houston, TX., a position recommended for him by then President of Princeton Univ., Woodrow Wilson. After completing the tour, Carrington became a newspaper correspondent and later worked for J.P. Morgan as a financial specialist. During WWI he served as a Lt. Col on the General Staff and was assigned to assist in the establishment of war reparations since he was known by then President Wilson as a brilliant mathematical genius. For this service he received the Distinguished Service Medal 7/9/1918 and was made an Officer of the Order of the Crown by the Italian Government. After the war he returned to a banking career, but his true passion was big game hunting in Alaska with a principal interest in mountain goats and sheep. While on a 1937 expedition in the lower Baja California in Cajon de Tecomaja, Sierra de la Gigante, he discovered a new species of the Dessert Big Horn Sheep named by him as the "Ovis Canadensis Weemsi". In 1947 at the age of 60 he married his long time acquaintance, Katherine Lane, a noted sculptress from Boston. They lived in several homes to include a dwelling at 825 on 5th Ave. NYC. "Uncle Canny" was the nick name given to him by his sibling's children.
Carrington finished highschool at the age of 15 and went to work for several years before he went to Princeton from which he received his Bachelors of Litt. and Masters of Arts in 1907 & 1908 respectively. While there he became fast friends with Professor Edgar Odell Lovett and later served as the professor's administrative assistant on that gentleman's European tour of universities. Lovett was preparing to become the first President of Rice University in Houston, TX., a position recommended for him by then President of Princeton Univ., Woodrow Wilson. After completing the tour, Carrington became a newspaper correspondent and later worked for J.P. Morgan as a financial specialist. During WWI he served as a Lt. Col on the General Staff and was assigned to assist in the establishment of war reparations since he was known by then President Wilson as a brilliant mathematical genius. For this service he received the Distinguished Service Medal 7/9/1918 and was made an Officer of the Order of the Crown by the Italian Government. After the war he returned to a banking career, but his true passion was big game hunting in Alaska with a principal interest in mountain goats and sheep. While on a 1937 expedition in the lower Baja California in Cajon de Tecomaja, Sierra de la Gigante, he discovered a new species of the Dessert Big Horn Sheep named by him as the "Ovis Canadensis Weemsi". In 1947 at the age of 60 he married his long time acquaintance, Katherine Lane, a noted sculptress from Boston. They lived in several homes to include a dwelling at 825 on 5th Ave. NYC. "Uncle Canny" was the nick name given to him by his sibling's children.
Gravesite Details
Canny's grave stone states he was born in 1883; however, several other documents including his draft card state the birth in 1884.
