[1] Born in Ireland, Carroll came to the U.S. when he was a year old, settling in Kendall County, Illinois with his parents.

He became connected with the United States Merchant Marine in trips he made to Japan and China.

[2] He commanded the Colorado, the Pelican, the Great Republic, the California (afterward known as the Eureka), the Idaho, and the Ancon, .

Eventually, he returned to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company to command the new steamer, Spokane, but retired again about 1906.

He was also a representative of the Rodman Bay mines on Baranof Island, where the company’ operated a sixty-stamp mill and seven miles of railroad.

[8] Carroll married Dorothy Bowington (died 1900), and of their children only one survived, John.