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Carrington, Fitz-Roy, journalist, art critic, 6, 1869, in England. He selected, arranged and wrote introductions for Dante's The New Life; and for other works. Carrington, Henry Beebe, soldier, author, was born on March 3, 1824, in Wallingford, Conn. He is a general in the United States army; and was in Boston, Mass. His principal writings include Crisis Thoughts ; Battles of the American Revolution; Apsaraka, or Indian Operations on the Plains; Hints to Soldiers Taking the Field; the Washington Obelisk and its Voices; Washington, the Soldier; History of Human Liberty Developed; Columbian Selections; The Six Nations; and Beacon Lights of Patriotism. Carrington, Paul, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 24, 1733, in Charlotte county, Va. In 1765-75 he was a member of the house of burgesses. He was a member of various conventions in 1775-76; and afterward took his seat in the house of delegates, from which he passed to the bench of the general court in 1779; and served in the court of appeals in 1789-1811. He was a member of the committee of safety during the whole of its existence. He died June 22, 1818, in Charlotte county, Va. Carrington, William T., educator, college president, was born Jan. 23, 1854, in Callaway county, Mo. He taught in district schools when seventeen years of age. In 1876-83 he was in charge of schools in Piedmont, Oak Ridge and Cape Girardeau, Mo. In 1887-98 he had charge of the high school at Springfield, Mo.; and wnile there founded and published the Missouri School Journal. In 1898-1907 he was state superintendent of public schools. In 1907 he became president of the state normal school at Spring-

was born Nov.

field,

Mo.

Carrol, John, clergyman, bishop, author, was born in 1735 in Marlborough, Md. He was the first Roman catholic archbishop of Baltimore. He was the author of Concise View of the Principal Points of Controversy

BetAveen the Protestant and Catholic Churches; and Discourse on General Washington. He died in 1817 in Georgetown, D.C. Carroll, Alfred L., physician, author, was

born Aug. 4, 1833, in New York City. He organized the first state board of health in the state at Staten Island in 1872; and at New Brighton in 1880. He is the author of Relation of Hygiene to Therapeutics and Questions of Quarantine. Carroll,

Anna

Ella, military genius, author, 29, 1815, in Somerset county,

was born Aug. Md. She was sent by President Lincoln

to St. Louis to endeavor to form an opinion of the probable success or failure of a most important expedition preparing to descend the Mississippi by means of gunboats. She reported the Mississippi as frowning with fortifications and tides as unfavorable. She recommended the use of the Tennessee river as the true strategic line. In furtherance of this secret plan the western armies, to the

amazement of the confederacy, were suddf ly transferred from the Mississippi up to t Tennessee

river.

The most

brilliant resi

followed. Fort Henry fell, Fort Donels was taken, the confederacy was divided, a: the rebel armies cut oflf from their soui of supplies. This is said to have broken t backbone of the rebellion. She was the a thor of The Great American Battle, or T Contest between Christianity and Politic Romanism; The Star of the West, or N tional Men and National Measures; T Union of the States; The War Powers of t

General Government; and The Relation the National Government to the Revolt Citizens Defined. She died Feb. 19, 1894, Washington, D.C. Carrol, Beyrl Frank, state senator, gov( nor, was born March 15, 1860, in Davis cou ty, Iowa. He was educated in the pub schools of his native state; attended the ci lege at Bloomfield; and graduated from t Missouri state normal school at Kirksvil He is prominently identified with the repu lican party; and in 1892 was district elect

from the sixth district. In 1895-99 he w a member of the Iowa state senate; a: served on numerous important committa In 1902-09 he was auditor of the state Iowa. In 1909-11 he served as governor the state of Iowa. Carroll, Benajah Harvey, clergyman, the logian, author, was born Dec. 27, 1843, ne Carrollton, Miss. He received his educati( in Arkansas and Texas ; and graduated fro Baylor university of Waco, Texas; fro which institution he received the degrees

A.M., D.D. and LL.D. For nearly thirty yea he has been pastor of the first baptist churi of Waco, Texas; and has been correspon ing secretary of the Texas baptist educati( commission. He has been president of tl board of trustees of Baylor university; ai is now dean of department of theology that institution. He is the author of a vc ume of sermons and several small books. Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, signer

the declaration of independence, was boi Sept. 20, 1737, in Annapolis, Md. He becan known as an advoca for

liberty;

and wi

one of the ablest p litical writers of Mar; land. In 1776-78 was a delegate to tl continental congreE and he was a signi of the declaration independence. At tl time of his death was the last survivii signer of that doci ment. In 1778 he le congress and devoted himself to the counci of his native state. In 1789-93 he was Uni ed States senator. He died Feb. 14, 1832, Baltimore, Md. 1

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