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attack of experimental yellow fever, asserted itself and his 

 health began to fail. He died at his Home at Washington on 

 September i6, 1907. 



In reviewing the facts of Carroll's life it is plain that he had 

 the elements of success in him from the first. He was the 

 typical vir tenax propositi, and this quality in his nature mani- 

 fested itself in a persistence which, if not a necessary element 

 of genius, is at least its closest ally and is often, pardonably, 

 mistaken for it. His personal character was one which com- 

 manded respect and inspired the warmest affection. He was, 

 as his former student, Dr. Donally, said of him, " a good man 

 and a square," true and just in all his dealings, faithful in all 

 his relations to those in authority over him, kindly and con- 

 siderate to those under his command. Whatever his hand 

 found to do he did it with his might, measuring the extent of 

 his exertions by his duties and responsibilities, not by the value 

 to himself of success achieved. He was modest almost to a 

 fault and one of his most striking characteristics was a singular 

 simplicity and trustfulness. He had an abiding sense of justice, 

 his trust in human nature causing him always to believe that 

 this sense was as strong in others as himself, while his belief in 

 the final ordering of all things for good was the simple confi- 

 dence of a child which trusts implicitly in higher powers whose 

 failure to do right it cannot conceive. 



Howard A. Kelley. 



