I'm researching our family history and I'm very interested in my maternal
grandmother's family the Carrolls. Thomas CARROLL and Elizabeth McCLURE
Carroll emigrated from Rathmullen in County Donegal about 1835 with
Elizabeth's father and at least one child. They settled on a farm in Keene,
OH (Coshocton County) around 1837 after two years in Philadelphia. The
raised 9 children (William, Robert J., Edgar, Nathaniel, Thomas, Margaret
J., and Elizabeth CARROLL). They founded a school they called Keene
Academy, and William, Robert J., Edgar, and Thomas became physicians. At
least three of them enlisted in the Union Army in the Civil War. Thomas
became the Health Officer for the Union Army occupying New Orleans, and died
in the cholera outbreak there in 1867. William joined the Fenians during
the Civil War, and settled in Philadelphia in 1867. He became very active
in the Irish Nationalist movement, serving as an executive of Clan na Gael
during the 1880s, even meeting with Benjamin Harrison in the White House.
James Carroll, my great-grandfather, married Mary "Minnie" DeLANEY of
Philadelphia and moved to Chicago sometime after 1870. They raised
Margaret, William, Thomas, J. Edgar, Mary (my grandmother) and Florence
Carroll. Florence was still teaching in her 70s in the Chicago schools and
co-authored the children's story "Mr. Popper's Penguins" with her
husband
Richard ATWATER.
If any of this sounds familiar to any of you, I'd love to share information.
John MacDonald
Poulsbo, WA