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LUTHER JAMES CARROLL
Luther James Carroll, who spent his
last years in honorable retirement at Long Beach, was born in Cass City,
Michigan, July 14, 1871, his parents being James and Sarah Jane (Myers) Carroll,
the former a native of Ireland. He
acquired his education in Michigan’s public schools and subsequently became
associated with his father, who was in the contracting business in Cass City,
that state. On attaining his majority he
became the owner of a farm, to the cultivation of which he devoted his
attention until his health became seriously impaired. Thereafter he engaged in the operation of a
small farm of forty acres near Armada, Michigan, for a time and then went to
Romeo, Michigan, where he established and successfully conducted a large
grocery and bargain house. In 1918 his
health again broke down and he came west to California, spending two years in
Redlands prior to taking up his abode in Long Beach, where he remained
practically retired to the time of his death on the 26th of January,
1932, when he was sixty years of age. He
had joined the Methodist Episcopal Church as a youth of sixteen years and his
life was an exemplary one in every relation.
He was devoted to his home and family, was loyal in friendship and
progressive in citizenship, and his passing was sincerely mourned by all who
knew him.
On the 29th of November,
1894, Mr. Carroll was united in marriage to Miss Alice Victoria Moore, daughter
of M. W. and Mary (Jennings) Moore, who were married in Ontario, Canada, where
they celebrated their sixty-sixth wedding anniversary. M. W. Moore, born in Ontario, Canada,
followed farming in the state of Michigan, where he carried on agricultural pursuits
throughout the remainder of his active career and is still living at the
venerable age of ninety-two years. In
early manhood he married Miss Mary Jennings, a native of Somersetshire,
England, who passed away in 1922, leaving four children. Of this family, Alice Victoria attended the
schools of Michigan while her father was engaged in agricultural pursuits in
that state, and in 1894 she became the wife of Luther J. Carroll, the wedding
ceremony being performed in Huron County, Michigan, at the home of her
father. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll reared two
adopted children: Edith, who is Mrs. W.
Miles of Long Beach; and Ernest Carroll, who married Blanche Scott, of Boulder,
Colorado, and has two children, Bobbie Scott and Elaine. Mrs. Carroll takes an active and helpful part
in the work of Grace Methodist Church in Long Beach, where she has a wide
circle of warm friends.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
37-38, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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