Charles Holker Carroll (May 4, 1794 – June 8, 1865) was an American farmer and politician from New York[1] who was a descendant of the Carrolls of Carrollton and married into the Van Rensselaer family.
[4] His siblings included William Thomas Carroll and Elizabeth Barbara Carroll (1806–1866), who was married to Henry Fitzhugh (1801–1866), an Erie Canal Commissioner and member of the New York State Assembly and the sister of Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, wife of Gerrit Smith.
[3] Along with his parents, the Carroll family left Maryland for Genesee County, New York, in 1811.
[1] After retiring from Congress, Carroll returned to Groveland and managed his large landed estate, "The Hermitage".
Her older sister, Cornelia Rutsen Van Rensselaer (b.
Together, they were the parents of six children, only two of which survived to maturity:[2][8] After his wife's early death in 1832, her sister, Catharine Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1802–1873), who never married, lived at "The Hermitage" and acted as a second mother to the Carroll girls.
1854) who married Edwin Forrest Sweet (1847–1935),[9] a Congressman and Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan (from 1904 to 1905) and Philo Carroll Fuller (1857–1931),[2] who also served as Mayor of Grand Rapids in 1917.