Businessman, author and National Guard officer. The son of Colonel Howard Carroll, an innovator in wrought iron bridge building for railroads and a Civil War officer who was killed at Antietam, the younger Carroll was educated in the US and Europe and became a reporter for the New York Times in 1875. While with the Times, he authored the play "The American Countess," and the books "A Mississippi Incident and "Twelve Americans: Their Lives and Times." President Arthur, who had been friendly with Carroll's father, offered him the positions of Ambassador to Belgium and private secretary to the president, both of which he declined. A Delegate to numerous Republican conventions, in 1882 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress, after which he became active in several businesses, including a paving company. An active National Guard officer, in 1895 he was appointed New York's Chief of Artillery with the rank of brigadier general. In 1898 he was appointed Inspector General, and conducted site visits of all camps where soldiers from New York were based during the Spanish-American War. The son in law of Congressman John Starin, in the 1890s he built Carrollcliff, a Tarrytown mansion inspired by European castles which became a landmark because of its location overlooking the Hudson River. In the 1990s the mansion was restored as a restaurant and inn.
Businessman, author and National Guard officer. The son of Colonel Howard Carroll, an innovator in wrought iron bridge building for railroads and a Civil War officer who was killed at Antietam, the younger Carroll was educated in the US and Europe and became a reporter for the New York Times in 1875. While with the Times, he authored the play "The American Countess," and the books "A Mississippi Incident and "Twelve Americans: Their Lives and Times." President Arthur, who had been friendly with Carroll's father, offered him the positions of Ambassador to Belgium and private secretary to the president, both of which he declined. A Delegate to numerous Republican conventions, in 1882 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress, after which he became active in several businesses, including a paving company. An active National Guard officer, in 1895 he was appointed New York's Chief of Artillery with the rank of brigadier general. In 1898 he was appointed Inspector General, and conducted site visits of all camps where soldiers from New York were based during the Spanish-American War. The son in law of Congressman John Starin, in the 1890s he built Carrollcliff, a Tarrytown mansion inspired by European castles which became a landmark because of its location overlooking the Hudson River. In the 1990s the mansion was restored as a restaurant and inn.
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