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CARRINGTON, Henry Beebee, soldier, b. in Wallingford, Conn., 2 Marcli, 1824. He was grad- uated at Yale in 1845, was a teacher of chemistry and Greek in Irving institute, New York, in 1846-'7, studied in the law-school at New Haven, and was for some time a teacher in the New Haven ladies' collegiate institute. In 1848 he began the practice of law in Columbus, Ohio, and was active in the anti-slavery agitation. He was a member of the convention that organized the republican party on 13 July, 1854, and chairman of the. committee ap- pointed to correspond with other states and make the movement national. As judge-advoeate-gen- eral, on the staff of Gov. Chase, he aided in the organization of the state militia in 1857, in antici- pation of a civil war. He was afterward appointed inspector-general, and was adjutant-general of Ohio when the war began. When President Lin- coln issued the first call for troops he organized and placed in western Virginia nine regiments of militia before the muster of the three-months' vol- unteers. On 14 May, 1861, he received an appoint- ment in the regular army as colonel of the 18th infantry. He commanded the camp of instruction at Camp Thomas, Ohio, took a brigade into the field at Lebanon, Ky., served as chief muster- officer in Indiana in 1862, was commissioned briga- dier-general of volunteers on 29 Nov., 1862, and on the occasion of Morgan's raid returned to Indiana, commanded the militia of that state, aided in rais- ing the siege of Frankfort, Ky., and afterward ex- posed the " Sons of liberty." He was mustered out of the volunteer service in September, 1865, and in November was president of a military commission to try guerillas at Louisville, Ky. Joining his regiment on the plains, he commanded Fort Kearny, Neb., and in May, 1866, opened a road to Montana, amid harassing attacks from the hostile Sioux. He conducted military operations in Colo- rado till the close of 1869, and on 11 Dec, 1870, was retired from active service on account of wounds and exposure in the line of duty. From the beginning of 1870 till 1873 he was professor of military science and tactics at Wabash college, Ind., and after that devoted himself to literary labor. He published, in 1849, " Russia as a Na- tion " and " American Classics, or Incidents of Revolutionary Suffering." Before the assault on Fort Sumter he delivered an address on " The Hour, the Peril, and the Duty,'" which was pub- lished, with two other orations on the war, in a volume entitled " Crisis Thoughts " (Philadelphia, 1878). He published, in 1868, " Ab-sa-ra-ka, Land of Massacre," embodying his wife's experience on the plains, extended in later editions so as to em- brace an account of Indian wars and treaties be- tween 1865 and 1879, and in 1876 published a work on the "Battles of the American Revolution" (New York). The forty large maps accompanying the work were drawn by the author, who, in 1881, published separately " Battle-Maps and Charts of the American Revolution." Gen. Carrington has given much time to a work that will appear under the title " Battles of the Bible."

CARRINGTON, Paul, statesman, b. in Char- lotte county, Va., 24 Feb., 1733; d. there, 22 June, 1818. He is a brother of Edward, noticed above. His maternal grandfather and his father, who came to Virginia by way of Barbadoes, were both engaged in the expedition of 1736 to fix the boundary-line between Virginia and North Caro- lina. He was graduated at William and Mary col- lege, studied law in the office of Col. Clement Read, clerk of the county of Lunnenburg, about 1748, married the daughter of his preceptor, began practice at the age of twenty-one. and soon rose to eminence. From 1765 till 1775 he was a member of the house of burgesses, and voted against the stamp-act resolutions of Patrick Henry. He was a member of various conventions in 1775-'6, and of the committee that reported the declaration of rights and the state constitution. He then took his seat in the house of delegates, from which he passed to the bench of the general court in May, 1779, and to the court of appeals in 1789, in which last he remained until 1811. He was a member of the committee of safety during the whole of its existence, and, in the Virginia convention, voted for the adoption of the constitution, and was a member of the committee to report amendments. — His son, Paul, b. in 1764; d. 8 Jan., 1816, served with his two brothers in the revolutionary army, and was distinguished in the battles of Guilford Court-House and Green Spring. After the peace he completed his studies at William and Mary col- lege, became a lawyer, and served in both houses of the legislature and afterward on the bench of the superior court. His brother. Col. Clement, was severely wounded at the battle of Eutaw Springs.

CARROLL, Charles, of CarroUton, last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. in Annapolis. Md., 20 Sept., 1737 ; d. in Baltimore, 14 Nov., 1832. The sept of the O'Carrolls was one of the most ancient and powerful in Ireland. They were princes and lords of Ely from the 12th to the 16th century. They sprang from the kings

of Munster, and intermarried with the great houses of Ormond and Desmond in Ireland, and Argyll in Scotland. Charles Carroll, grandfather of Carroll of CarroUton, was a clerk in the office of Lord Powis in the reign of James II., and emigrated to Maryland upon the accession of William and Mary in 1689. In 1691 he was appointed judge and regis- ter of the land-office, and agent and receiver for Lord Baltimore's rents. His son Charles was born in 1702, and died in 1782, leaving his son Charles, the signer, whose mother was Elizabeth Brook. Carroll of CarroUton, at the age of eight years, was sent to France to be educated under the care of the Society of Jesus, which had controlled the Roman Catholics of Maryland since its foundation. He remained six years in the Jesuit college at St. Omer's, one year in their college at Rheims, and two years in the college of Louis Le Grand. Thence he went for a year to Bourges to study civil law, and from there he returned to college at Paris. In 1757 he entered the Middle Temple, London, for the study of the common law, and returned to Maryland in 1765. In June, 1768, he married