The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . t Andover in 1819;entered the Baptist ministry, and for some years didmissionary work among the Southern negroes. Mostof his life was spent at Newton theological institu-tion, wher
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . t Andover in 1819;entered the Baptist ministry, and for some years didmissionary work among the Southern negroes. Mostof his life was spent at Newton theological institu-tion, where he held the chair of Biblical literature andpastoral duties from 1836 to 1832, then that of theformer alone until 1839, and that of sacred rhetoncand pastoral duties, 1839-60. After renewed minis-trations to the freedmen in Georgia, he returned toNewton as librarian in 1865, and was associate pro-fessor of Biblical literature there 1872-75. His de-gree of D. D. was conferred by the University of Ala-bama in 1844, and by Harvard in 1845. He wrotemuch for the religious press, and published: a Me-moir of T. S. Winn (1834); Christian Baptism(1833); Notes on the Gospels, 3 vols. (1837-38):on the Acts (1844), on Romans (1857), and on He-brews (1868); Sacred Rhetoric (1849); Exclu-siveness of the Baptists (1857), and Church Pol-ity (1867). He died at Newton Centre, Mass., May21, 1875. 122 THE NATIONAL CTCLOPiEDIA. CARROLL, Alfred Ludlow, physician, wasborn in New York city Aug. 4, 1833. The name ofthe family from which he is descended is one of theoldest surnames in existence, and Charles Carroll ofCarroUton, one of the signers of the declaration ofindependence, was in the regular line of descentfrom the founder of this family. The name of Car-roll was given to this ancient family by the piousBryen Boiroimhe, monarch of Ire-land, anno 1032. It was this mon-arch who gave surnames to allthe Irish families, and in imita-tion thereof the custom was adopt-ed by the Germans, French andIt
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