Daniel H. Carroll

[3] Carroll worked as deputy register of wills in Harford County for four and a half years, starting in 1909.

[2][6] He served as a cost accountant in the United States Army Ordnance Corps during World War I.

In 1925, Carroll discovered a shortage of US$47,000 at the House of Corrections and in 1926, he found a missing US$16,000 at the office of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

Governor Ritchie and Carroll paid for advertisements in The Baltimore Sun to refute each other's statements relating to the 1928 probe.

[7][8][9] Carroll married Grace Gibson, niece of John Archer and teacher at Bel Air High School, on January 2, 1915.

[10] He had four daughters and one son, Mrs. Charles E. Bredekamp, Mrs. Thomas F. Mullen, Mrs. J. Robert Sachse, Mrs. William J. Perkinson and Douglas L.[2] Carroll was a Catholic.