Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-30
COL. !. H. CARROLL,
RAIL LAWYER, DIES
Official Host to Royalty Be-
gan Career as Homeless
Wait in Ohio.

The career of powerful railroad at
torney, who began life as a homeless
waif, living in an alley drygoods box,
ended yesterday with the death of Col.
John Haydock Carroll at his home,
2029 Connecticut avenue. Private flu
neral services will be held at the resi-
dence tomorrow, followed by burial in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
He Is survived by his widow, the for
mer Priscilla Woodrow of Lynchburg,
Ohio, whom he married in 1880; son,
John H. Carroll, jr., of Chicago, West
ern freight traffic manager Of the Bal
timore 81 Ohio Railroad, and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Philip Lantz of Sewickly. Pa.
At the time of his death, Col. Carroll
was general attorney for the Chicago,
Burlington g. Quincy and the North
ern Pacific Railroads, and assistant to
the president of the Baltimore & Ohio.
He was Official host" to Queen Marie
of Rumania when she made her tour
of America in 1926, and was decorated
by the late King Ferdinand. He also
was host to the Crown Prince and
Crown Princess Of Sweden in 1927.
Was Missouri Leader.
He was admitted to the Ohio bar in
1880 and the Missouri bar shortly after.
From 1883 to 1889 he was prosecuting
attorney of Putnam County, Mo. He
conducted the campaign which resulted
In the election Of David r. Francis as
Governor Of Missouri.
He was a member OF the Metropol-
itan. Chevy Chase and Army and Navy
Clubs of Washington and was past
president of the Alfalfa Club.
Col. Carroll came to Washington In
1917 and later served as assistant to
the Director General of Railroads, John
Barton Payne.
The story of Col. CAROLS rise has
often been told in magazines and news
papers.
Until he was 80, his earliest knowl-
edge of his beginning in life was arriv-
ing in Cincinnati, Ohio, on a train with
his mother and going to a small hotel.
His mother left him at the hotel and
never returned. He was then S years
OLD. Soon he was turned into the
streets and, with an older boy George
Kirk, lived in an old dry goods box in
an alley. The two boys sold papers
and BACKED boots and managed to make
enough money to buy food. After being
denied Christmas gifts at church Serv-
ice in 1863, George comforted John with
a suggestion they hang up their stock
ings. The night was bitter cold, and
Johnny's feet became frostbitten. The
stockings were empty in the morning.
Taken to Orphanage.
His frostbitten feet panied him
greatly, and during the Spring of '64
John Carroll bound them in rags to
ease the pain. A philanthropic Quaker,
Murray Shipley. learned of the lads
case after watching him hobble on his
rag-bound feet and placed him in the
Childrens Home. He was then less
than years old.
Two years later he returned to the
box in the alley. Through selling extra
papers telling of the assassination OF
President Lincoln he accumulated $3.50,
and with it bought ticket to Toledo
on a fruitleSS search for his mother,
and he again re-entered the Cn!ldren's
Home.
When he was 8, John wa given a
home at a farm house near Martins
vile, Ohio, but he ran away to Cincin-
natl and reported again at the Chill
dren's Home. Ultimately he was
bound out" to farmer named Thomas
Hadley.
John Carroll worked on the Hadley
farm, got a bit of schooling and studied
law. At II he became school teacher.
At % he married Miss Woodrow and
they spent their honeymoon in the
Children's Home in Cincinnati.
Law Practice Prospered.
His law practice in Missouri pros
pered. In 1890, when he was appointed
general attorney for the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy Railroad, the story
of his life led to Col. CAROLS discovery
of who he was and why his mother
never rejoined him in Cincinnati. 1t
brought letter from his mothers sis
ter in Lockport, N. Y. He went to that
place and learned that he and his
mother had gone to Cincinnati from
Erie County, N. Y, where he was born
in 1858. They were en- route to Ken
lucky, where his father, Union soldier
had been wounded. His mother had left
her other children in a Toledo orphan
age to go to her husband.
Leaving John at the hotel, she had
gone out to purchase railroad tickets
for the remainder of the journey from
Cincinnati and, suffering sunstroke,
died in a hospital. When these facts
were learned, Col. CAROLS father and
sisters we're dead. A brother who lived
in Michigan became a member of Col.
CAROLS family in st. Louis.
The Archbishop of Canterbury re-
Gently laid a corner stone from Beck
ett's Corona" small chapel built about