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Iowa. He was ordained priest in 1899; and in 1894 became president of St. Joseph's college of Dubuque, Iowa. Carroll, John M., lawyer, congressman, was born April 37, 1823, in Springfield, N.Y. He received an academic education; graduated from Union college of Schenectady in 1846; studied law and came to the bar in 1848. He was elected district Fulton attorney of county in 1859, and held that office three years. In 1871-73 he was a representative from New York to the forty-second congress He. as a democrat. also attained promir.irice as one of the foremost lawyers in the state of New York at Johnstown. He died May 8, 1901, in Johnstown, N.Y.

Carroll,

John Wesley, manufacturer, was

born on March 3, 1832, in Staunton, Va. In 1859 he began the manufacture of granulated smoking tobacco; and soon built up a vast business. He was a member of the city council for thirty-two years; and its president for nearly thirty-two years. He died Feb. 9, 1898, in Lynchburg, Va. Carroll, Mansfield Coniad, teacher and dairyman, was born on March 18, 1857, in

Dauphin county. Pa. He was educated at the Harrisburg city high school; and at the Pennsylvania business college. For eighteen years he taught in the public schools of Dauphin county; and for twelve years was clerk at the Harrisburg foundry and machine works. He held the office of justice of the peace for three consecutive terms in the county of Dauphin. Since 1900 he has managed the White Hall farm near Harrisburg, Pa. Carroll,

Mitchell,

author,

educator,

was

June 2, 1870, in Wake Forest, N.C. He graduated from Richmond college; and re-

bom

ceived

the

degree

of

M.A. from that institution and the degree of Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins univer-

He was a stuat Leipzig and Berlin. In 1895-97 he «as a professor of Greek at Richmond sity.

dent

College.

In 1897-98 he of the

was a member American

school of classical studies. In a reader in classical archse-

1898-99 he was ology at the Johns Hopkins university. He is the author of Aristotle's Poetics; Greek Women; and part author of Early Christian Women. He is the editor of The Attica of Pausanias, with Introduction, Notes and Ex-

Carroll, Samuel Sprigg, soldier, was bor: Sept. 21, 1832, in Washington, D.C. He wa promoted brigadier-general of volunteers 1864; in 1865 received the brevet of briga dier-general United States army, for gal lantry at Spottsylvania ; and that of major general for services during the civil war. Ii 1867 he became a lieutenant-colonel in th regular army. In 1868 he was acting in spector-general of the division of the Atlan tic; and in 1869 retired as major-general fo: disability from wounds received in battle He died Jan. 28, 1893, in Washington, D.C i;

Carroll, Thomas K., governor. He was thi eighteenth governor of Maryland in 1830-31 He died in Maryland. Carroll, U. S. G., clergyman, author, wai born May 1, 1864, in Waterloo, Ohio. He ii pastor of a methodist episcopal church ii Hundred, W.Va. He is the author of Th( Christian Responsibility of Parents to Theii

Children. Carroll, William, soldier, governor, wai born in 1788 in Pittsburg, Pa. He was col onel and inspector-general in 1813-14. Ht was the fifth governor of Tennessee in 182127, and in 1829-35. He died March 22, 1844 in Nashville, Tenn. Carroll, William H., soldier, was borr about 1820. He commanded a brigade ir General Albert Sidney Johnston's confederate army. In 1863 he proclaimed martial law in Knoxville, Tenn. He died in Knoxville, Tenn. Carruth, Frances Weston, litterateur, author, was born July 12, 1867, in Newton, Mass. She is the author of Those Dale Girls;

and The

Way

of Blinda.

Carruth, Fred Hayden, journalist, author,

was born is

Lake City, Minn. He The Adventures of Jones;

in 1853, in

the author of

and The Voyage of the Rattletrap. Carruth, James Harrison, botanist, state senator, author, was bom Feb. 10, 1807, in Phillipston, Mass.

In 1824 he edited the United States Review at Boston. In 183540 he was a member either of the house or state senate of Massachusetts; and in 1837 drafted the bill establishing the board of education. He was the author of Geography of Massachusetts; and Geography of New Hampshire. He died Sept. 15, 1896, in Van Buren, Ark. Carruth, John G., merchant, manufacturer, banker, philanthropist, was bom Feb. 25, 1851, in Paisley, Scotland. In 1867 he secured a position in a large Philadelphia mercantile establishment; and was rapidly advanced to general manager. In 1876 he began the manufacture of woolen, worsted and cotton goods; and in 1894 built the large Endurance mills. He was one of the founders of the United life insurance and trust company; is president of the Industrial trust, title and savings company; and was one of the originators of the Philadelphia bourse. He contributed a dormitory house