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Carroll, David L

clergyman, college president, author, was born May 10, 1787, in Fayette county, Pa. In 1829 he was installed pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Brooklyn, L. I.; and in 1835 he was elected the ninth president of Hampden Sidney college. He is the author of The Ministerial Officer, and other works. He died Nov. 23, 1851.

CARROLL, DAVID WILLIAMSON, lawyer, jurist, was born March 11, 1816, in Baltimore, Md. In 1850 he was elected to the Arkansas legislature; in 1860 was elected prosecuting attorney; in 1861- 62 he served in the civil war, and attained the rank of colonel. In 1864 he was elected to the lower house of the confederate congress; in 1866 was elected judge of Jefferson county; and in 1878 was elected chancellor of Pulaski chancery court at Little Rock, Ark.

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