Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-03-23

Death of DR.. Thomas Carroll-Pre-
liHinary Action of the Academy
Of Medicine.
BY request of DR.. Jno. Alexander, fa
student Of deceased. We publish the
following from the Cfnciusai Oos,mes.-
cidt. - A-ssi-
The death of DIR. Thomas Carroll of
this city, is an event which was not al
together unexpected by his professional
friends, but its announcement will be a
signal for sense of profound re-
gret with thousands who knew him as
q physician, labOring for the good of his
fellow beings throughout a long and
honorable career. He expired at half
past Il O'Clock yesterday, at the resi-
dence of his daughter, Mrs. ID. II. Tay-
lor, at Oakley, after an acute illness of
about two weeks. DR.. sCarrolls death
sickness .-ates from last summer, but he
enjoyed lapse of comparative health
during which he resumed the labors of
his profession when discretion would
have prompted rest and a careful reser-
vation of strength.e Such indeed was
his industry and impulse to study that
he critically investigated the nature of
the disease to which his wonderfully
elastic constitution was q prey, almost
into the last hours of his life. - ~
Dr. Carroll was born On the 18th of
April, 1874 in County Antrim, Ireland,
and was therefore Seventy-seyen wears
OF age at his death. He was of Quaker
stock and maintained his membership
int trSG or
Iemigrated to this country in 1901 and
brought barge family, with which he
settled in ,COlumbiana County, in this
State. He was the youngest son, and
while undergoing the drudgery on the
farm, manifested love for learning
and an ambition to acquire it that
nothing could conquer. Such education
as he could acquire by the light of the
pine log at night, and in the backwoods
school in the dull months of the wear,
he gathered with avidity, and before
his twentieth birthday he had read
medicine with sufficient profit and pro-
ficiency to secure the honors of the grad
uafing class in the old TransyIvania
University at Lexington, Kentucky, in
his twenty-first year. He subsequently
attended lectures in New York and
Philadelphia, and very soon made his
mark as a physician af -aT s..i
He settled in Richmond, Indiana, in
1870, and practiced medicine for year,
when he married his wife, who sur
wives him, a sister of Micajah Williams,
well known i'm the history of this com
immunity. DIR. Carroll continued to prac-
tice medicine and surgeryin Richmond
flor a few, years, but was obliged,
through poor health, to change his
place of residence. He tried New Lis
bon, in this State, but soon removed
to st. 0airsville, Belmont County,
where his son, Robert Carroll, the well
known publisher of this city, was born
and raised. Ts.is;d lfiE = r'sI.--.
DIR. Carroll practiced medicine, and
surgery in st. Clairsyille from, 1924 till
1871, and during that space of time ac-
tquireda q widespread reputation, which
so burslened his labors that he was
forced to abandon the field for one less
extended geographically. He came tO
this city in 1871, where he has resided
lever since, and labOred with unremit.
ting zeal and devotion.
AS aphysician DIR. Carroll adhered to
the old school, and was bold and orig.
/ inal in his style of practice. He wrote
largely in his profession, but published
mestly in the medical journals. He
was man of strong character, COM
bining withal qualities of heart almost
feminine in gentleness and tenderness.
His intellectual face and noble head
will be missed OH the streets where
he was familiar, as, seated in his visit
ing carriage, he rolled past obedient to
the call of duty, and the hundreds OF
! families to whom his faithful ministra-
ttions brought comfort and relief will
mourn his loss and honor his memory.
DIR. Carroll's death WAS announced in
the Academy of Medicine, by DIR. Ste.
venson, who attended him in his ill
ness, and after a brief allusion to him as
a member suggested suitable action.
/ DIR. Dawson moved that a committee
Iof five be appointed for that purpose
with Drs. Stevenson and Hadlock in.
cluded.
This was carried, and DIR. Comegys
Chairman, appointed DIR. Richardson
Dawson and Heighway in conjunction
with the two named, DIR. Stevenson to
act as Chairman, and report to be made
at the next meeting of the Academy.