COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO 
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David O'Carroll
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January 27, 2001
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Thomas Carroll 1794-1871

Thomas was born in the family homestead at Trummery and came to the USA with 
his parents and siblings in 1801. He was brought up in Columbiana helping his 
father and brother on the farm. During the long winter months he studied to be 
a physician. He started his first practice as a country physician in Richmond, 
Indiana in 1820 shortly after marrying Anne Lynch Williams, a Friend. After 
falling ill he moved back to Columbiana but then settled in St.Clarisville, 
Belmont County, Ohio until 1841 when he moved to practice in Cincinnati (East 
Liverpool?).

[David O'Carroll January 2001]

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Death of Doctor Thomas Carroll

Preliminary Action of the Academy of Medicine Last Night

The death of Dr Thomas Carroll of this city [Cincinnati], is an event which was 
not altogether unexpected by his professional friends, but its announcement 
will be a signal for a sense of profound regret with thousands who knew him as 
a physician, laboring for the good of his fellow beings throughout a long and 
honourable career.  He expired at half-past 12 o'clock yesterday, at the 
residence of his daughter, Mrs D.H.Taylor, at Oakley, after an acute illness of 
about two weeks.  Dr Carroll's death sickness dates from last summer, but he 
enjoyed a lapse of comparative health during which he resumed the labors of his 
profession when discretion would have prompted rest and a careful reservation of
strength.  Such indeed was his industry and impulse to study that he critically 
investigated the nature of the disease to which he wonderfully elastic 
constitution was a prey, almost into the last hours of his life.

Dr Carroll was born on the 15th of April 1794, in County Antrim, Ireland, and 
was therefore seventy-seven years of age at his death.  He was of Quaker stock 
and maintained his membership in the Society of Friends.  His father emigrated 
to this country in 1801 and brought a large 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 a 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 year, he gathered with avidity, and before his twentieth 
birthday he had read medicine with sufficient profit and proficiency to secure 
the honors of the graduating class in the old Translyvania University of 
Lexicon, Kentucky, in his twenty-first year.  He subsequently attended lectures 
in New York and Philadelphia, and very soon made his mark as a physician.

He settled in Richmond, Indiana, in 1820 and practised medicine for a year, 
when he married his wife who survives him, a sister of Micajah Williams, well 
known in the earlier history of this community.  Dr Carroll continued to 
practice medicine and surgery in Richmond for a few years, but was obliged, 
through poor health, to change his place of residence. He tried New Lisbon, in 
this State, but soon removed to St.Clairsville from 1824 till 1841, and during 
that space of time acquired a wide-spread reputation, which so burdened his 
labors that he was forced to abandon the field for one less extended 
geographically. He came to this city [Cincinnati] in 1841 where he has resided 
ever since and laboured with unremitting zeal and devotion.

As a physician Dr.Carroll adhered to the old school, and was bold and original 
in his style of practice. He wrote largely in his profession, but published 
mostly in the medical journals.  He was a man of strong character, combining 
withal qualities of heart almost feminine in gentleness and tenderness.

His intellectual face and noble head will be missed on the streets where he was 
familiar, as, seated in his visiting carriage, he rolled past obedient to the 
call of duty, and the hundreds of families to whom his faithful ministrations 
brought comfort and relief will mourn his loss and honour his memory.

Dr. Carroll's death was announced in the Academy of Medicine last night by Dr.
Stevenson, who attended him in his illness, and after a brief allusion to him 
as a member suggested suitable action.

Dr.Dawson moved that a committee of five be appointed for that purpose, with 
Drs.Stevenson and Hadlock included.

[source: unknown newspaper]
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