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Carr, Nathan T – Carroll, Daniel

Carr, Nathan T

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in Steuben county, N. Y. In 1858 he was elected a representative in the Michigan state legislature. He entered the union army in 1861 as first lieutenant. In 1863 he moved to Indiana; and was subsequently elected a representative from that state to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy.

Carr, Robert V

journalist, poet, was born July 15, 1877, in Chenoa, Ill.

He received his education at the South Dakota School of Mines. He learned the printing business, and is a successful journalist of Rapid City, S. D. He is the author of numerous poems of merit, and is familiarly known as the Black Hills Poet.

Carrell, George Aloysius

Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1803 in Philadelphia, Pa. He performed missionary duty in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, and founded an academy for young ladies. Between 1851 and 1853 he was president of the Purcell Mansion college, Cincinnati. On the erection of the eastern portion of Kentucky into the see of Covington in 1853, Dr. Carrell was made bishop. He died in 1868 in Covington, Ky.

Carrier, Augustus Stiles

educator, author, was born in 1857 in New York. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Chicago; and professor of Hebrew in Mc- Cormick Theological seminary from 1892.

He is the author of The Hebrew Verb, a Series of Tabular Studies.

Carrigain, Philip

lawyer, was born Feb. 20, 1772, in Concord, N. H. He was secretary of state of New Hampshire four years, and also clerk of the senate. He surveyed a great part of the state, of which he published an excellent map, in 1816, and was the first to apply to New Hampshire the name of the granite state.

He died March 16, 1842, in Concord, N. H.

Carrington, Henry Beebe

general, author, was born March 2, 1824, in Wallingford, Conn. He is a general in the United States army living in Boston.

His principal writings include Crisis Thoughts; Battles of the American Revolution; Apsaraka, or Indian Operations on the Plains; Hints to Soldiers Taking the Field; and The Washington Obelisk and its Voices.

Carrington, Paul

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1764. He became a lawyer, and served in both houses of the legislature and afterward on the bench of the superior court. He died Jan. 8, 1816.

Carrol, John

bishop, author, was born in 1735 in Maryland. He was the first Roman catholic archbishop of Baltimore. His writings are mainly of a controversial cast. He is the author of Concise View of the Principal Points of Controversy between 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 has been for many years prominently identified with the state health organization. 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 Question of Quarantine.

Carroll, Charles H

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1794 in Maryland.

He was a member of the assembly of the state in 1836; a state senator in 1837; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1847. He died in 1865 in Groveland, N. Y.

Carroll, Daniel

congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1780 to 1784; signed the articles of confederation and also the constitution, and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1789 to 1791. He died in 1829.

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