City: Memphis<\/p>\n
CARROLL, William H., \u00a0<\/b>lawyer; born in Panola Co., Miss., in 1843; son of Gen. W. H. <\/b>and ____ CARROLL; <\/b>grandson of Governor CARROLL<\/b>; in 1851 he moved to Memphis, and was educated in the schools of that city, and at Nashville, where he attended the University of Tennessee until his senior year; he enlisted in the Confederate service when the war broke out, for a time drilling a regiment raised by his father, and going to the front on the staff of Gen. Thomas H. BRADLEY,<\/b> of Arkansas, as a volunteer aide, soon after becoming adjutant of the Thirty-seventh Tennessee; he was afterward place in command of Gen. James R. CHALMERS\u2019<\/b> escort, and served until shortly before the close of the war, when his health became so impaired that he resigned; returning to Memphis, he at first engaged in the cotton business, as soon as he had some degree recovered his health, but later gave his attention to law, and in 1875 he admitted to the bar; since then he has practiced his profession, being associated some years with the late Julius A. TAYLOR<\/b>; after the latter\u2019s death, Mr. CARROLL<\/b> became associated with his old commander, Gen. CHALMERS<\/b>, a partnership which continued until the latter\u2019s death, when the junior partner became Mr. McKELLAR<\/b>; the firm is now Carroll, Scott & Fisher; Democrat; for several years he was chairman of the Democratic state central committee; he was a delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1876, and again in 1880, when Gen. HANCOCK<\/b> was nominated; in 1900 he was Democratic elector from Tennessee; member of B. P. O. E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
City: Memphis CARROLL, William H., \u00a0lawyer; born in Panola Co., Miss., in 1843; son of Gen. W. H. and ____ CARROLL; grandson of Governor CARROLL; in 1851 he moved to Memphis, and was educated in the schools of that city, and at Nashville, where he attended the University of Tennessee until his senior year; he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,4407,418,4419],"tags":[4326],"class_list":{"0":"post-6612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-university-of-tennessee","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-carroll","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8887,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions\/8887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}